Tad Richards' odyssey through the catalog of Prestige Records:an unofficial and idiosyncratic history of jazz in the 50s and 60s. With occasional digressions.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Birth of the Cool: Move
Started
thinking about Birth of the Cool, and the original compositions by
Miles, Gil Evans and others that made up that session -- what great
tunes they all are. Started wondering who else has recorded them. So
here's the first cut on the album, "Move," as played by Bireli Lagrene,
the gypsy jazz guitarist who first made his mark at the age of eight,
playing Django Reinhardt's book.
And again by Stan Getz, a live performance from 1951, featuring Teddy Kotick on bass -- Teddy who played at Opus 40 several times with J. R. Monterose.
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