the iconic jazz-classical nonet BIRTH OF THE COOL a philly premiere, seventy-five years later
Orchestra 2001 is both excited and disappointed to inform you that next Wednesday evening’s concert at the Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz sold out not long after tickets went on sale!
Due to the extreme popularity of this event, additional repeat performances will be announced shortly, including during April (Philly Celebrates Jazz month), for those who were unable to obtain tickets for next week’s performance.
"Birth of the Cool became a collector’s item, I think, out of reaction to Bird and Dizzy’s music. Bird and Diz played this hip, real fast thing, and if you weren’t a fast listener, you couldn’t catch the humor or the feeling in their music. Their musical sound wasn’t sweet, and it didn’t have harmonic lines that you could easily hum out on the street.”
– Miles Davis (trumpeter/leader on the original Birth of the Cool)
Please see Peter Dobrin’s article from The Philadelphia Inquirer including Birth of the Cool history and its unlikely connection to a storage facility on Germantown Avenue!
“After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.”
– Gunther Schuller
(French hornist on the original Birth of the Cool)
“It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.”
– Lee Konitz (alto saxophonist on the original Birth of the Cool)
