Davis Music Pillows
Description: Birth of Cool. "Miles Davis Birth of the Cool" is a jazz album released in 1957, featuring arrangements by pianist/arranger Gil Evans and compositions by various members of Davis' nonet, a group of nine musicians that included Davis on trumpet, Lee Konitz on alto saxophone, Gerry Mulligan on baritone saxophone, and others. The album is considered a landmark in the history of jazz and is credited with helping to establish the cool jazz movement. The music on the album is characterized by its relaxed, understated approach, with a focus on melodic improvisation and a greater emphasis on ensemble playing than on individual solos.
Description: This is it, this was the place be at in the late ’50. The first Jazz club at ‘The City’ open up on December 15, 1949 at 1680 Broadway Avenue just north of West 52nd Street in Manhattan. John Coltrane record couple of live LP, Count Basie's Basie at Birdland. Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Louie Bellson, Bud Powell, Johnny Smith, Stan Getz, Lester Young, and Ella Fitzgerald among other jazz celebrities. The clubs were frequented by; Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, Gary Cooper, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Sugar Ray Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, Joe Louis, and other celebrities at that time. This is my version of the logo and concept of that first ‘Birdland’ club. The Club closed in 1965 and reopened in another location in 1986.
