Miles Davis
Kind of Blue
Miles Davis,
Trumpet
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Alto
Sax (except #3)
John Coltrane, Tenor Sax
Wynton Kelly, Piano (#2)
Bill Evans, Piano (all others)
Paul Chambers, Bass
Jimmy Cobb, Drums
Inducted into GRAMMY HALL OF FAME 1992
Produced by Irving
Townsend
Recorded at Columbia 30th Street Studio
New York, NY
Fred Plaut, Engineer
Recorded March 2, 1959 and April 22, 1959
Catalog Number: CK 64935
Format: CD
Release Date: 1997
Label: Columbia/Legacy
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Quincy
Jones: “That will always be my music, man. I play Kind of
Blue every day – it’s my orange juice. It still sounds like
it was made yesterday.”
– Ashley Kahn
Ever wondered what a Dali painting would've sounded like?
Looking back, I can see myself as a "before & after" case
study. I wasn't a sucker for jazz. Growing up on usual doses of rock and
metal doesn't leave much room for imagination – an extremely crucial
ingredient if you want to enjoy this music called jazz.
So it took me some time before I decided to buy Kind of Blue (Sony Music
re-issue). Read that it was graced by some of the genre's best musicians:
everyone on this record is a jazz legend in his own right. So I won't talk
about their musical prowess. Instead, I’ll try to describe how Kind
of Blue changed my perceptions about music, creativity and life in general.
I was stoned, alone, preparing for my final year exams, when I put this
album on in my Walkman. Somewhere in the following 45-odd minutes (I strongly
suspect that it was during "Blue in Green") I heard a subliminal
'click' inside my head. I remember that I heard it 9 more times during the
course of the next 24 hrs. I like to compare it with American Express Credit
Cards: Never leave home without this album in the walkman!
From a more space-time point of view, I feel centuries of progress, creativity,
experimentation and improvisation are distilled, focused and frozen in one
LP: Kind of Blue. There are many good jazz records; many excellent ones
and many nearing perfection. But Kind of Blue is a record that achieved
perfection: of music, of spirit, of form and of content. In fact it's no
more a jazz record – Kind of Blue (I personally feel) has reached
levels of spiritualism, transcending all musical frontiers.
Forget islands. If I’m ever stranded on the Moon, I’d like to
have this disc with me. The earth in the distance, ink black Universe around
me and with my feet in soft lunar dust: what else can I ask for? Kind of
Blue, of course.
–
Spliffhead
"As the painter needs his framework of parchment, the improvising musical
group needs its framework in time," says Bill Evans in the liner notes
to Kind of Blue. "Miles Davis presents here frameworks which are exquisite
in their simplicity and yet contain all that is necessary to stimulate performance
with a sure reference to the primary conception." Amen. During the
past 40 years, the performances Davis' stimulated from Evans, John Coltrane,
Cannonball Adderley, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb, and Wynton Kelly have become
some of the most storied in jazz, and all of them – classics such
as "Freddie the Freeloader," "All Blues," "Blue
in Green," and, of course, "So What" – are featured
on this Columbia/Legacy reissue.
– JAZZIZ Magazine
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Miles and Cannonball
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