Kind of Blue

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In this release, his third album for Reference Recordings, Doug MacLeod continues to explore the breadth and depth of the human condition. When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. It's the pinnacle of modal jazz -- tonality and solos build from chords, not the overall key, giving the music a subtly shifting quality.

Though I have a huge collection of jazz greats, this album remains at the very top of the pile, with its status as the best ever jazz album still securely intact. Very impressed with the packaging and most importantly the pressing of this album; it is flat, a good weight and exudes quality when you first remove it from the inner sleeve.Released on August 17th 1959, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is widely recognised as one of the most influential jazz records ever produced, with its influence still being heard in music to this day.

There are numerous instances where Kind of Blue reveals the influences that Miles brought with him to the sessions, as related by Francis Davis.

In Vinyl1954´s comment I got a little confused when reading ; "t is best to use Columbia EQ curve on the photo stage" . I’d say the UHQR sounds better than both other options but this and the mono version are totally acceptable. Winner of the 2018 Blues Music Awards Acoustic Album of the Year Nominated for the 2018 Blues Blast Music Awards Acoustic Blues Album of the Year Hi-Fi News Top Audiophile Vinyl Album of 2019!

An audiophile favorite from the day it was issued, Kind of Blue takes on nirvanic sonic proportions via Mobile Fidelity's reissue. As Evans said in the original liner notes for the record, the band did not play through any of these pieces prior to recording. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I’m writing this during the World Series, I’m not watching because im fuckin mad still that the Dodgers got bounced because of injuries and shit. Kind of blue , due to its commercial success is sometimes given a wide berth by jazz purists who insist there is better stuff out there.

Francis Davis (who wrote an entirely different 4,000-word liner notes essay for the box set), places the album in historic perspective: “Beyond jazz, Kind of Blue‘s long-term influence has been enormous. Davis intentionally handpicked these musicians to comprise this particular cast, with everyone from former foil Evans to blues maestro Kelly to percussive genius Cobb interacting and reacting with peerless skill. Each song is extremely personal and at the same time, universal; covering subjects topical, humorous, and soulful; from the satirical to the sublime. Existe una versión remasterizada y en vinilo de 180 gr, con dos discos con piezas añadidas y tomas alternativas que merece la pena; yo la poseo en CD y está muy bien. Long held as the jazz album that even non-jazz fans will own, Kind Of Blue not only changed the way people regarded Miles, it changed the very face of music itself.

Beginning with the Byrds, the Doors, Carlos Santana, and the Allman Brothers, most rock improvisation has been modal. One of the greatest albums of all time, back in on blue vinyl'Kind of Blue' is the now classic studio album by the legendary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, recorded in 1959 at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City. None of the musicians had played any of the tunes before heading into the first of two recording sessions in early spring of 1959.

Second, there is another version ( Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue) with "Kind Of Blue" printed on one line on the side B label.