Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
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Artist: Miles DavisEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1997-03-25
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- So What
- Freddie Freeloader
- Blue in Green
- All Blues
- Flamenco Sketches
- Flamenco Sketches
Music reviews of Kind of Blue
Music Review: A Game Changer
Rating: 5 Stars
This album was part of Miles' "Second Coming." Cut with only "one take" and no practice sessions. They just walked into the recording studio and "did it." What they created "on the spot was not only fresh, but also "leading edge" for a very fertile period in Jazz. And it still remains virtually unsurpassed as improvised creative arts go. As Miles said in his autobiography, "I play what I know, and then I go above it."
That is what is done here: The whole group "goes above what they know" individually and collectively; and what they create here becomes a seminal event in the cohesion of the Jazz idiom itself; one that has left an indelible imprint on Jazz history.
All of the hard work that this group had engaged in up until this album (which was considerable) was but prologue for "Kind of Blue," which was a serious "game changer" even for Miles -- who was never happy with his work unless he was" changing the game."
Not only is this exquisitely beautiful music, that is mature, and deep in its creative vision, but music that also expands the previous structures of Jazz.
Although Miles presaged his turn to modal music in both "Milestone" and "My Prince Will Come," no one could have anticipated what a surprise this album would be: as in one fell swoop, it stripped away both a dependence on strict chord structures and on a strict time, tempo or beat.
The music's cohesion is centered on, and relied solely on the mature synergy and chemistry that had developed among the players. Throughout his career as band leader it was well known that Miles asked for everything that his sidemen had: He "milked" them for every morsel of creative substance and would accept nothing less.
On this album, he got it all. Amen and
100 Stars
Description of Kind of Blue
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. --John SzwedBebop General CDs
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