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Kind of Blue | 
| Artist: Miles Davis
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  684 reviews
Format: Sacd
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Requires SACD-compatible hardware
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 64935
UPC: 074646493564
EAN: 0074646493564
Release Date: August 14, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | So What | | • | Freddie Freeloader | | • | Blue in Green | | • | All Blues | | • | Flamenco Sketches | | • | Flamenco Sketches |
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Amazon.com essential recording
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 Szwed
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One of the best by Miles Davis November 17, 2008
Anne Simone (Cambridge, MA)
It's hard to pick a best of Miles, but this is definitely one of them
Truely jazz's greates masterpiece November 3, 2008
Eric Peterson
Miles Daves sets the stage for cool jazz with this masterpiece. It is truely timeless and as relivent today as ever.
Arguably the greatest jazz album of all time. October 29, 2008
M. Ashe (Portland, OR United States)
"Kind of Blue" is a landmark piece of music. Right at the apex of all these great musicians careers. It is timeless, beautiful and mesmerizing to listen to. "Blue in Green" is dreamy, ethereal and worthy of the "repeat" button on your player over and over. It's all just very magical.
Really, it's arguably the greatest ALBUM ever recorded, not the greatest jazz album......
A Game Changer October 7, 2008
Herbert L Calhoun (Falls Church, VA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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
Utterly Sublime October 6, 2008
David D. (San Francisco, CA)
Some Kind of Blue is the ultimate example of jazz as defining mood. The music is utterly sublime and the album historical with performances by Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, Jimmy Cobb, John Coltrane, Paul Chambers, Wynton Kelly and, of course, Miles Davis. These names resonate with jazz aficionados, which along with its accessibility, is precisely the reason why this album is a perfect introduction to anyone interested in jazz and essential to one's collection.
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