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When he convened a nonet with Evans and Gerry Mulligan's help in 1948, and recorded the music which would later be released as Birth of the Cool , he was blending bebop with a reduced vision of Claude Thornhill's instrumentation.
Davis, on the other hand, had been through small-group bebop in the '40s, and found it too intense and inward; as he noted in his autobiography, he was struggling to find a way to make bop sound "sweet."
Having risked appearing foolish in the cause of his art; having tackled his parts with demented, hyperbolic integrity, letting the madness of his roles infuse him and carry him into the ether; having snagged an Oscar for his besotted, bebop melancholia in Leaving Las Vegas ; Nicolas Cage has now set out to prove that he can be as much of an overmuscled jackass as Sylvester Stallone.
But once the big band no longer played dance music, it morphed into some strange, decadent forms--Stan Kenton's small municipalities with five trombones, for instance, or intellectual ensembles like Boyd Raeburn's that magnified bebop's hustled rhythms and tricky harmonies.
The score, which borrows from Benjamin Britten and bebop, is called incoherent and "bland" (Paul Griffiths, the New York Times ). "One of the biggest missed opportunities the operatic world has seen in a while," says USA Today 's David Patrick Stearns.