Paris Jazz Corner

Columbia 1947/68 (réf. COL 516250-2)

Featuring :
Miles Davis (trumpet), Gil Evans (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cleveland (trombon), Sid Cooper (saxophone), Bernie Glow (trumpet), Taft Jordan (trumpet), Lee Konitz (saxophone), Ernie Royal (trumpet), Willie Ruff (bass)

CD box set, stereo, second hand, 50.00 €
[59.00 US$, 6,485.00 ¥]

2004 CD edition- 6 CD's on the box set

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> See pictures about : Jimmy Cleveland
> See pictures about : Miles Davis
> See pictures about : Gil Evans
> See pictures about : Lee Konitz

Between trumpeter Miles Davis and arranger Gil Evans, the term of sound alchemy is not usurped. Change copper into gold was indeed the relentless quest of these two great names of modern jazz who, from 1947 to 1968, allowed the music to start a real aesthetic revolution. The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings includes the full and slag from many of these fabulous sessions.

The unprecedented alliance of stamps, the subtle colors, expanding the musical palette, the systematic use of rare instruments like the harp or oboe, the treatment of dilated time, the search for a new sound space, the mounting direction, the search for evanescence, loans to Manuel de Falla, Ravel, Debussy Gil Evans makes a personality quite apart. As for Miles, we know enough how his tone deaf and his extraordinary talent to make the Socratic midwife at once elusive and unmistakable...

With great booklet.