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Kind of Blue
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans List Price: $11.98 Our Price: $7.97
Audio CD - 25 March, 1997
Sony
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Number of Media: 1
CD Tracks:
So What
Freddie Freeloader
Blue In Green
All Blues
Flamenco Sketches
Flamenco Sketches (Alternate Take)
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Features:- Original recording reissued
- Original recording remastered
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| Audio CD Description This is the one jazz record owned by people who don't listen to jazz, and with good reason. The band itself is extraordinary (proof of Miles Davis's masterful casting skills, if not of God's existence), listing John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley on saxophones, Bill Evans (or, on "Freddie Freeloader," Wynton Kelly) on piano, and the crack rhythm unit of Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums. Coltrane's astringency on tenor is counterpoised to Adderley's funky self on alto, with Davis moderating between them as Bill Evans conjures up a still lake of sound on which they walk. Meanwhile, the rhythm partnership of Cobb and Chambers is prepared to click off time until eternity. It was the key recording of what became modal jazz, a music free of the fixed harmonies and forms of pop songs. In Davis's men's hands it was a weightless music, but one that refused to fade into the background. In retrospect every note seems perfect, and each piece moves inexorably towards its destiny. |
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I just don't get it... I simply cannot understand the accolades that this album has received over the years. While I think that the music is really good--perhaps even great--the "songs" simply do not go anywhere (in my opinion.) Perhaps I feel this way because this WASN'T the first jazz record that I remember hearing. In fact, the first time I ever heard jazz was in the streets of New Orleans (where I am from.) Sure, this album brought jazz into the limelight, so to speak, but that is also its major downfall--it's too watered-down (for lack of a better term.)
Just buy it One of the greatest jazz recordings of all time, hands down.
Excellent music by THE master! I love this album, and that is an understatement. I even hooked a friend on it when I played it as background music for an event preceding her wedding. She doesn't like jazz. However, by no means is this music meant to be "background" music. It is alive, Miles is contemplative, and I can't stop listening to it. For anyone new to Miles' music, I'd recommend also seeing the short "Miles Davis Sextet Performance at the Isle of Wight Festival, 1970," for an idea of what the master was like during a performance. |
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