![]() Miles Davis pulled together sessions from 19 into the retrospective statement of intent that was 1957’s The Birth Of The Cool. Artists like Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker demanded a new level of attentiveness. Jazz, meanwhile, was undergoing its own postwar evolution, graduating in seriousness, no longer just the stuff of dancehall entertainment. Its songs are like chapters dealing with different themes concerning the downside of romance – no wonder it has been described as the first “concept” album. Its cover art, featuring a lonesome Sinatra on a street corner swathed in a blue half-light, could have appeared on the front of a paperback novel. Bing Crosby, who was at the forefront of various 20th century music technologies, from the microphone to magnetic tape, was among the first artists to see his work appear on album format – Crosby Classics, a collection of his 30s recordings released by Columbia.įrank Sinatra took it further, understanding the narrative potential of the LP on In The Wee Small Hours (1955). ![]() ![]() However, it wasn’t long before more popular artists saw the potential of LPs. ![]() When the first long-playing record was introduced by Columbia Records at a press conference in New York’s Waldorf Astoria in 1948, it was considered primarily as a boon for selling classical music, whose long form had been ill-suited to the 78rpm format – the first ever long-player was a recording of a Mendelssohn concerto. ![]()
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