WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2023
7:30 PM
Clef Club of Jazz
736 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19146
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CASH BAR.

SOLD OUT!
Due to the 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 this March performance at the Clef Club. 

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Orchestra 2001 will present the Philadelphia premiere of the mid-century fusion of jazz and classical music, “Birth of the Cool,” on Wednesday, March 29, at the Clef Club of Jazz. Musicians, composers, and arrangers from the original nonet included Miles Davis, Gil Evans, J.J. Johnson, Lee Konitz, John Lewis, Gerry Mulligan, and Max Roach. This performance will feature Orchestra 2001’s jazz players, including eight members of The Philly Pops.

This concert will take place approximately 75 years after the creation of this ground-breaking musical hybrid. Its informal evolution by leading jazz and classical artists during the late 1940s, took place in Gil Evans’ single-room basement apartment, below a laundromat on West 55^th Street in Manhattan. The 12 tunes resulting from that collaboration are a collector’s classic, and forged decades of new directions in concert halls, jazz clubs, and film scores.

The music has an unusual local tie; most of the scores were thought to be lost until manuscript parts were found in cartons in a Philadelphia storage unit fifty years later, as part of Miles Davis’ estate.

Performers:
george rabbai – trumpet
ron kerber – alto saxophone
mark allen – baritone saxophone
john david smith – french horn
paul arbogast – trombone
brian brown – tuba
tom lawton – piano
doug mapp – bass
joe nero – drums
najwa parkins – vocal