At that time, innovative and new. Today just beastly good

After Mr. Davis was encountered in Bee Bop Dizzy, Bird and Co. to its limits, he did the only logical step, which he could do as a musician in this situation: He threw everything overboard to quite different to start from scratch ,

From which hot even overtaking was a mellow, quiet just a cool way of playing. Of course, this album is not the birth of cool jazz. Such a thing does not exist; nor is there anyone to whom one could attribute the invention of the wheel alone. Miles Davis, however, was the one who first went in 1949 and in 1950 with a band in the studio and consistently doing something that he in this way would not expect: He was cool.

His band, and he allowed the Jazz to renew early fifties themselves. That this did not please the critics, was self-evident.

Thankfully we must no longer worry about reviews from the 50s, but just go to the CD rack, remove Birth of the Cool and enjoy.