Kind of the Cool - The Phil Shotton Nonet play Miles Davis

The Phil Shotton ‘Kind of Cool’ Nonet play live the entire iconic ‘Birth of the Cool’ album! A rare and exciting opportunity to hear one of the most important and influential albums in jazzPerformed live, with the original instrumentation and arrangements, by some of the finest jazz musicians in the North of England.Phil Shotton - Baritone Saxophone & BandleaderJohn Padfield - Alto SaxophoneOwen Bryce - TrumpetMike Monument - French HornMatthew Horner - TromboneAdam Dutch - TubaTom Sykes - PianoMatt Lawton - Double BassAndrew Bold - DrumsBirth of the Cool was the most important stylistic step to follow after bebop - generating an entirely new wave of playing that influenced a new generation in the early 1950s.

This compilation album by American jazz trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis, released in February 1957 by Capitol Records compiled eleven tracks recorded by Davis’s nonet for the label over the course of Three sessions during 1949 and 1950.