Rod Levitt was a trombonist and commercial arranger who occasionally worked with Gil Evans in the ’60’s. His charts from his mid:1960’s recordings for RCA, make full use of the experimental ideas that the “Birth of the Cool” crowd had ushered in years before.
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Jack Lewis / East Coast
Jack Lewis produced the RCA Victor Jazz Workshop series of albums while head of A&R in New York.
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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT (12” LPs)M-11026 [1972] The third 12” LP release of the Birth of the Cool sessions brought the marketing of these sessions full circle. The initial 10” LP releases had been marketed by Capitol as part of their “Classics in Jazz” series. The new marketing package released this music as part of […]
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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT (12” LPs) DT-1974 [1965] Leonard Feather wrote an extended article on Miles Davis for Down Beat that was published in the July 2, 1964 edition of the magazine. The piece was titled “MILES AND THE FIFTIES” and included an in depth examination of the Birth of the Cool sessions via an […]
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