The Birth of the Cool was born at 14 West 55th Street in Manhattan in 1947 (above). There, at arranger Gil Evans's bare-bones apartment, musicians constrained by bebop's small-group limitations began meeting to develop a new, broader sound. Inspired by Claude Thornhill's sighing sectional approach to orchestral jazz, revolutionary arrangers including Ev…
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