Kind of Blue was both a radical stylistic experiment and an album parents could put on after dinner without waking the kids. It's a manifesto, a meeting of musical minds, and it's moved millions of copies to remain the bestselling jazz record of all time. Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue," released in August 1959, featured what might be the finest group in jazz history; it virtually founded a new mus...
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Fifty years ago today, the Miles Davis Sextet began recording for Columbia Records the music that ultimately made up the album called Kind Of Blue. To observe the occasion, Jan Stevens of The Bill Evans Web Pages commissioned an essay about that imperishable recording and its most recent CD reissue. The piece, by John Varrallo, is exclusive to the Evans site. It is worth reading. Evans, who was...
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It really is a cliche: "Kind Of Blue" is the best music album ever. Not best jazz or instrumental album, is the best MUSIC album ever produced. It would be my choice if I only had to live with one album for the rest of my life. A full mosaic of deep emotions and feelings, "Kind Of Blue" is perfect when you feel sad, happy, upbeat, downbeat, creative, introspective, kinky, you name it, is the pe...
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Depending on your opinion of Miles Davis' plunge into serious funk with his 1972 album, On The Corner, you'll either be thrilled to hear that Columbia/Legacy is releasing a SIX DISC set, The Complete On the Corner Sessions, or will look at this as a cynical move to get Miles' fans to part with more of their dough.On the Corner cover art.Me, I'm in the former camp. While the original album was c...
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...hey there MOG...been keepin' your powder dry and the wind at your back? Hey, you lookin' kinda different...you been workin' out or something? it's all good...I thought I'd holla as I was feeling this Miles Davis cut while typing some CoR shite up-- I guess because sometimes you need to put on the big, bullshit detecting glasses, kinda like the ones the angel of darkness is wearing in the pic...
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The secret to creating music that stands the test of time is to create timeless music: Sketches of Spain was, and remains, quite unlike anything else created in the jazz idiom.
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The Miles Davis Quintet featuring: Miles Davis (trumpet) John Coltrane (tenor sax), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums) Has anyone ever seen the Cameron Crowe movie, Jerry Maguire? How about the scene where the jazz-nut baby sitter...uh, child-technician, Chad is talking at (certainly not talking to....) Jerry about Miles Davis and John Coltrane: "This (hol...
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So Momma B & I were talking yesterday & being that she is really into the book I am working on, she had some great suggestions for me. One thing she really wanted me to impart to all you is an author that both she & I adore. Frank Conroy. He's a music prodigy & one hella writer... brought jazz to Nantucket... sadly it's my Mum who should be writing this post - hopefully she will & I can add ...
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Miles From India (Times Square). Producer Bob Belden wound up a monumental series of Miles Davis reissue box sets for Sony/Columbia, then he and fellow arranger Louiz Banks turned to interpreting the trumpeter's immense output of recordings after 1959. This two-CD set considers the intersection of Indian music with Davis's adventures in scales and modes from Kind of Blue forward. Belden laid do...
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Vince Wilburn, Jr. shared with me some greatness nd I wanted to share it with you all.Sony BMG Music Entertainment released this E.P. on their Legacy label on August 21, Vince let me in on it early, Thanks Vince...........from the jacket of the pre-release copy of the latest Miles Davis Album (quiet, it's still an album to me):Evolution. Revolution. Miles Davis: Today.'Evolution of the Groove' ...
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Listen and read. Enjoy Jazz on Saturday.It may or may not be common knowledge that Cody B. and I are pretty good friends. We met on MOG and have seen each other a few times, we even call each other on a semi regular basis and talk about whatever (MOG politics and happenings mostly and of course music). Well one of our conversations turned to ideas for posts. It was Cody's idea for me to do a an...
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The Miles Davis Quintet featuring: Miles Davis (trumpet) John Coltrane (tenor sax), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums) Has anyone ever seen the Cameron Crowe movie, Jerry Maguire? How about the scene where the jazz-nut baby sitter...uh, child-technician, Chad is talking at (certainly not talking to....) Jerry about Miles Davis and John Coltrane: "This (hol...
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Mine is: ...and it's one of the FINEST albums in my collection. The rumors surrounding the recording sessions, the interplay between Miles and Sonny Rollins.... wow. gives me goosebumps just thinking about it. So...POST 'EM UP! What's the oldest full album in your collection? I have several older sitting on the shelf but in my enormous Itunes library, this one happens to be the current old...
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So Momma B & I were talking yesterday & being that she is really into the book I am working on, she had some great suggestions for me. One thing she really wanted me to impart to all you is an author that both she & I adore. Frank Conroy. He's a music prodigy & one hella writer... brought jazz to Nantucket... sadly it's my Mum who should be writing this post - hopefully she will & I can add ...
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...hey there MOG...been keepin' your powder dry and the wind at your back? Hey, you lookin' kinda different...you been workin' out or something? it's all good...I thought I'd holla as I was feeling this Miles Davis cut while typing some CoR shite up-- I guess because sometimes you need to put on the big, bullshit detecting glasses, kinda like the ones the angel of darkness is wearing in the pic...
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