Gil Evans/Miles Davis: It Ain't Necessarily So

• Davis learnt trumpet at school, less bebop influenced than gillespie
• Cool jazz - new instruments, precomposition, extensive use of dorian mode
• Rimshot - hit drum head and rim simultaneously - strongly accented
• Recorded in New York - 29th July 1958
• Stylistic Techniques of Miles Davis:
  • Very little vibrato
  • Extensive use of the middle range of the trumpet
  • Lots of Ghost Notes
  • Dorian Mode
  • Economical with use of notes, unlike in bebop
• Trumpet played with Harmon Mute
• Bass played pizzicatto in triplets
• Trombones play chromatic minims
• Drums played with brushes
• Low tremolo on D and F# in woodwind

• 5 Trumpets - Miles Davis (soloist)
• 4 Trombones
• 3 French Horns
• 1 Tuba
• Alto Sax - Cannonball Adderly
• Flute/Alto Flute/Clarinet - 2 Players
• Alto Flute/Bass Clarinet - 1 Player
• Bass - Paul Chambers
• Drums - Jimmy Cobb

• Intro - Bm (Unrelated Key) - 9 Bars
• Chorus 1 - Gm - 32 Bars
  • A1 - Paraphrase Melody, octave leaps
  • A2 - Ghost Notes and Triplets
  • B1 - Anticlimatic, Starts with Perfect 4th interval
  • A3 - repeated minor 3rd pattern
• Chorus 2 - Gm - 32 Bars
  • A4 - Long Held D (V)
  • A5 - Split note, followed by descending scale
  • B2 - stop time (where only the highhat is being played), followed by high pitched chord with very pronounced D
  • A6 - 7th, 9th 11th pattern

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• Chorus 3 - Gm - 32 Bars
  • A7 - Starts with glissando in trumpet, low trumpet note
  • A8 - more like A2 - chromatic D-Db-G pattern, really fast notes
  • B3 - Triplets descending/ascending scale. Stab Chord. Trumpet doesn't play for the first few bars
  • A9 - like A3, repeated minor 3rd pattern
• Chorus 4 - Gm 0 32 Bars
  • A10 - Starts with a low E, diminished 5th interval
  • A11 - Squeak at start of section with different accompaniment, then long held note
  • A12 - Octave leaps from A1
  • A13 - Huge scream not from trumpets