Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
One of the greatest albums in jazz - Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue has received innumerable commendations ever since its release in 1959 and has been admired by jazz fans far and wide. Miles Davis and his sterling band that consisted of top performers at that time together brought this masterpiece to the world. This album features Miles Davis on trumpet, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley on alto saxophone, John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Wynton Kelly and Bill Evans on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums(“Kind of Blue”).
Five songs are contained in this album with a total length of 45:44(“Kind of Blue”). Side one includes So What, Freddie Freeloader, Blue in Green and Side two includes All Blues and Flamenco Sketches. There is also an alternate take of Flamenco Sketches. Davis took part in the composition of all the tunes. While Blue in Green and Flamenco Sketches were jointly written by he and Bill Evans, the other pieces were written by Davis himself(“Kind of Blue”).
Born in a wealthy family in Illinois in 1926, Davis began playing trumpet at the age of 13 and moved to New York City years later to pursue his music dream at Julliard School of Music. However, he chose to quit Julliard and start to play as a professional in the clubs with Coleman Hawkins(“Miles Davis”). Davis managed his …show more content…
He came up with his album Birth of the Cool but his work was not well appreciated by the critics and listeners. His first cool jazz recordings were regarded as “the most spectacular failures of the jazz club scene” in the liner notes(“Miles Davis”). Later Davis became the representative figure in hard bop, that “use[s] slower tempos and a less radical approach to harmony and melody” compared with bebop, but differs from cool jazz by “virtue of a harder beat and by its constant reference to the blues”(“Miles
One of the greatest albums in jazz - Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue has received innumerable commendations ever since its release in 1959 and has been admired by jazz fans far and wide. Miles Davis and his sterling band that consisted of top performers at that time together brought this masterpiece to the world. This album features Miles Davis on trumpet, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley on alto saxophone, John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Wynton Kelly and Bill Evans on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums(“Kind of Blue”).
Five songs are contained in this album with a total length of 45:44(“Kind of Blue”). Side one includes So What, Freddie Freeloader, Blue in Green and Side two includes All Blues and Flamenco Sketches. There is also an alternate take of Flamenco Sketches. Davis took part in the composition of all the tunes. While Blue in Green and Flamenco Sketches were jointly written by he and Bill Evans, the other pieces were written by Davis himself(“Kind of Blue”).
Born in a wealthy family in Illinois in 1926, Davis began playing trumpet at the age of 13 and moved to New York City years later to pursue his music dream at Julliard School of Music. However, he chose to quit Julliard and start to play as a professional in the clubs with Coleman Hawkins(“Miles Davis”). Davis managed his …show more content…
He came up with his album Birth of the Cool but his work was not well appreciated by the critics and listeners. His first cool jazz recordings were regarded as “the most spectacular failures of the jazz club scene” in the liner notes(“Miles Davis”). Later Davis became the representative figure in hard bop, that “use[s] slower tempos and a less radical approach to harmony and melody” compared with bebop, but differs from cool jazz by “virtue of a harder beat and by its constant reference to the blues”(“Miles