The Real Birth of Cool - Studio Recordings

Quintessential edition of the legendary Gil Evans arrangements for the Claude Thornhill Orchestra in the late forties with young altoist Lee Konitz and singer Fran Warren.
Includes only studio versions.

Tracklisting:

1. Somebody Nobody Loves
2. Smiles
3. Buster's Last Stand
4. There's a Small Hotel
5. I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)
6. Moonlight Bay
7. Under the Willow Tree
8. Arab Dance
9. I Get the Blues When It Rains
10. We Knew It All the Time
11. La Paloma
12. Anthropology
13. Sorta Kinda
14. Robbin's Nest
15. Lover Man
16. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
17. The Happy Stranger
18. Donna Lee
19. Yardbird Suite
20. Snowfall*
21. Early Autumn*
22. Let's Call It a Day*
23. Where or When*

*Bonus tracks
Recorded 1941-1947