#616 Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool

Melodic runs runs runs, sometimes a horn, sometimes two in unison, sometimes two different pairs, following, splitting off, coming back, like ribbons behind dancers, like children looping paths across wheatfields.

The sound is carefully orchestrated, as befits a band of nine trying to double each others' voices in a series of pairoffs and squares. There are solos, but nothing extravagant. This is a tight series of songs moving freely, looping and swooping like a flock of birds, and then one wheels off for a solo, but is back before long, and the flock finds a tree and alights 3.5/5