Birth Of The Cool

  • Birth Of The Cool: Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant Garde
    By Lewis MacAdams

    ... 115 Kashevaroff, Xenia, 152-53 Kaye, Sammy, 50 Kazan, Elia, 79 Kennedy, Jacqueline, 220-22 Kennedy, John E, 222, 255, ... 237, 257, 263 Nico, 242, 244, 245, 247, 249 Night People, 223 1984 (Orwell), 142 Nixon, Richard M., 222 285 INDEX.

  • Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury
    By Elizabeth Armstrong

    Miles Davis's seminal recording, known as 'Birth of the Cool', is the starting point for this colorful, multi-disciplinary journey through 1950s West Coast America. 1950s West Coast style exuded "cool";...

  • Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound
    By Kathleen Cornell Berman

    Miles can’t sleep.

  • Birth of the cool
    By Miles Davis

    (Transcribed Score). In preparation for over two years, this landmark publication presents the music of the Miles Davis Nonet in concert score format, restored from as many of the original...

  • Birth Of The Cool
    By Lewis MacAdams

    BIRTH OF THE COOL is the first serious examination of how cool came about - its meaning, its heroes and its place in the world, from the gritty avant-garde fringes of the culture in after-hours joints in Harlem and cold water flats on the ...

  • Birth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant Garde
    By Lewis MacAdams

    Drawing a direct line between Lester Young wearing his pork-pie hat and his crepe-sole shoes staring out his hotel window at Birdland to the author's three-year-old daughter saying "cool" while watching a Scooby-Doo cartoon at the cusp of a ...

  • Birth of the Cool
    By Barkley L. Hendricks

    "Published in conjunction with the [traveling] exhibition, Barkley L. Hendricks: birth of the cool, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, February 7, 2008-July 13, 2008 ..."--Title page verso.