Kind Of Blue

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Album: Kind of Blue
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***** 100 mejores discos de jazz

Intérprete(s): Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans

Títulos:

1 - So What - 09:25
2 - Freddie Freeloader - 09:49
3 - Blue In Green - 05:38
4 - All Blues - 11:36
5 - Flamenco Sketches - 09:26
6 - Flamenco Sketches- alternate take - 09:32

Total Running time: 55:16

ALBUM DETAILS:
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop, Modal Music, Hard Bop ·
Release Date: Mar 25 1997
Original Release Date: 1959
Label: SONY
Catalog No.: 64935
UPC: 74646493526

Miles Davis: Kind of blues El sexteto formado por Miles Davis (trompeta), John Coltrane (saxo tenor), Cannonball Adderley (saxo alto), Bill Evans y Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (contrabajo) y Jimmy Cobb (batería) esculpe cinco temas inolvidables. Probablemente el disco más importante y más valorado de la historia del jazz; una reunión de titanes presidida con su habitual astucia por Miles Davis. Su formidable capacidad de liderazgo marca gran parte de sus grabaciones, y ésta no es una excepción. La música fluye de una forma serena, la improvisación de los solistas es técnicamente perfecta y absolutamente inspirada, el sonido es inmaculado. En una sola palabra: esencial. (Anónimo)

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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine AMG

Kind of Blue isn't merely an artistic highlight for Miles Davis, it's an album that towers above its peers, a record generally considered as the definitive jazz album, a universally acknowledged standard of excellence. Why does Kind of Blue posses such a mystique? Perhaps because this music never flaunts its genius. It lures listeners in with the slow, luxurious bassline and gentle piano chords of "So What." From that moment on, the record never really changes pace — each tune has a similar relaxed feel, as the music flows easily. Yet Kind of Blue is more than easy listening. It's the pinnacle of modal jazz — tonality and solos build from the overall key, not chord changes, giving the music a subtly shifting quality. All of this doesn't quite explain why seasoned jazz fans return to this record even after they've memorized every nuance. They return because this is an exceptional band — Miles, Coltrane, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb — one of the greatest in history, playing at the peak of its power. As Evans said in the original liner notes for the record, the band did not play through any of these pieces prior to recording. Davis laid out the themes before the tape rolled, and then the band improvised. The end results were wondrous and still crackle with vitality. Kind of Blue works on many different levels. It can be played as background music, yet it amply rewards close listening. It is advanced music that is extraordinarily enjoyable. It may be a stretch to say that if you don't like Kind of Blue, you don't like jazz — but it's hard to imagine it as anything other than a cornerstone of any jazz collection.

AMAZONE - This is the one jazz record owned by people who don't listen to jazz, and with good reason. The band itself is extraordinary (proof of Miles Davis's masterful casting skills, if not of God's existence), listing John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley on saxophones, Bill Evans (or, on "Freddie Freeloader," Wynton Kelly) on piano, and the crack rhythm unit of Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums. Coltrane's astringency on tenor is counterpoised to Adderley's funky self on alto, with Davis moderating between them as Bill Evans conjures up a still lake of sound on which they walk. Meanwhile, the rhythm partnership of Cobb and Chambers is prepared to click off time until eternity. It was the key recording of what became modal jazz, a music free of the fixed harmonies and forms of pop songs. In Davis's men's hands it was a weightless music, but one that refused to fade into the background. In retrospect every note seems perfect, and each piece moves inexorably towards its destiny. --John Szwed