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2008-11-22
I'd take it on a desert island...
Owned this labum for more than 10 years, I love Coltrane (not all), I love Miles (not all), and many others (I recommend Abdullah Ibrahim), but this one is the quintessence, the one I ALWAYS go back to. I just don't grow weary. If I were to take one album on desert island, that would be Kind of Blue.
2008-11-17
One of the best by Miles Davis...
It's hard to pick a best of Miles, but this is definitely one of them
2008-11-03
Truely jazz's greates masterpiece...
Miles Daves sets the stage for cool jazz with this masterpiece. It is truely timeless and as relivent today as ever.
2008-10-29
Arguably the greatest jazz album of all time. ...
"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......
2008-10-07
A Game Changer...
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
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