Hot Track: Venus De Milo

In 1949, Gerry Mulligan arranged a song he wrote called Venus de Milo for the Miles Davis Nonet, better known now as the Birth of the Cool Band. The group recorded the song in April of that year. Eight years later, the song was recorded again in December of 1957 by an octet. The album was The Gerry Mulligan Songbook Vol. 1 and featured a killer lineup o…