Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
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Artist: Miles DavisEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- So What
- Freddie Freeloader
- Blue in Green
- All Blues
- Flamenco Sketches
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Free Music Review: About as good as jazz gets...
Hit: 5 Stars
Admit it, you've heard of this album, even if you're not a jazz fan. And why not? It's certainly THE Miles Davis album to own - if you're only to have one, make it this. It's arguably my favorite jazz album, rivaled only by Coltrane's A Love Supreme. Coltrane himself plays on this album, and his playing alone makes this an essential album. Than again, so does everything about the album: Miles' most famous song is found here, the bluesy So What, a longtime favorite of mine. You've probably heard all about the well-known modal melody and bass-piano tradeoff during the beginning, but my favorite part is Cannonball Adderly's sax solo, which makes excellent use of trills, giving it an almost Medieval sound. Following it up is Freddie Freeloader, which takes a similar melody and emphasizes the blues element of the song: Wynton Kelly does a great job at the keys. The third and final blues song is All Blues, a demonstration of the awesome chemistry between the group's horn section of Miles, Trane, and Cannonball.
Then there are your ballads, both total classics in their own right: Blue in Green (penned by pianist Bill Evans, the only song not by Miles) is a lovely, restrained song: Cannonball takes a break, Miles plays a wonderful muted trumpet solo; Coltrane does his usual "restrained emotion" thing; Evans (who gets in a short but amazing piano solo near the end), Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb provide a restrained but tight rhythm section. Lastly comes Flamenco Sketches, in truth the weakest song on this album - but I'd still rate it five stars, which says a lot about what we're dealing with here. It's actually modal free jazz in a way, since it contains no melody and allows Miles, Trane, Cannonball and Evans to improvise over a simple bass vamp and quiet drum part.
What more can I say? It's Kind of Blue. It's a legendary album. If you don't have it, you're really missing something.
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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 SzwedJazz Music CDs
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