Kind of Blue

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All-in-all this edition of Kind of Blue meets the highest audiophile standards and offers the truest sound for the most enjoyment. The Davis band played a mixture of pop standards, blues, and bebop originals by composers such as Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Davis, and Tadd Dameron. As with all bebop-based jazz, Davis's groups improvised on the chord changes of a given song. [1] Davis was one of many jazz musicians growing dissatisfied with bebop, however, and saw its increasingly complex chord changes as hindering creativity. [3]

George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization". Concept Publishing . Retrieved September 10, 2012. Now Analogue Productions, together with Quality Record Pressings, is putting Kind of Blue where it belongs: the Ultra High Quality Record (UHQR) pressed on Clarity Vinyl on a manual Finebilt press with attention paid to every single detail of every single record. History was on the side of Kind of Blue; it was born in 1959, at the peak of the golden age of high-fidelity, featuring innovations in studio equipment (magnetic tape, high-quality condenser microphones), matched by advancements in home audio reproduction (long-player records — LPs; high-end turntables, and other stereo components). Kind of Bluealso benefited from Miles’ being signed to the leading major record company of the day — Columbia Records, a part of the CBS media conglomerate. Columbia had the means and wisdom to invest in cutting edge recording technology, and their own professional recording studio.Jazz news: Miles Davis – Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collectors Edition Coming in September". All About Jazz. August 9, 2008. Archived from the original on January 10, 2009 . Retrieved September 10, 2023. French album certifications – Miles Davis – Kind of Blue" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique . Retrieved January 5, 2014. Williams, Richard (2010). The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music. Norton. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-07663-9. The original LP did not credit a producer. [14] The first release with a producer credit was the 1987 CD, which credited only Macero. [15] However, this was in error; Macero only produced that reissue, not the sessions for the original album. [11] : 195 The 1997 MiniDisc reissue credited both Townsend and Macero, [16] but the subsequent 1997, [17] 1999, [18] 2004, [19] 2008, [20] and 2015 [21] reissues all correctly credit only Townsend. In 1959, the arrival of Ornette Coleman on the jazz scene via his fall residency at the Five Spot club, consolidated by the release of his The Shape of Jazz to Come LP in 1959, muted the initial impact of Kind of Blue, a happenstance that irritated Davis greatly. [44] Though Davis and Coleman both offered alternatives to the rigid rules of bebop, Davis would never reconcile himself to Coleman's free jazz innovations, although he would incorporate musicians amenable to Coleman's ideas with his great quintet of the mid-1960s, and offer his own version of "free" playing with his jazz fusion outfits in the 1970s. [45] The influence of Kind of Blue did build, and all of the sidemen from the album went on to achieve success on their own. Evans formed his influential jazz trio with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian; "Cannonball" Adderley fronted popular bands with his brother Nat; Kelly, Chambers and Cobb continued as a touring unit, recording under Kelly's name as well as in support of Coltrane and Wes Montgomery, among others; and Coltrane went on to become one of the most revered and innovative of all jazz musicians. Even more than Davis, Coltrane took the modal approach and ran with it during his career as a leader in the 1960s, leavening his music with Coleman's ideas as the decade progressed. [46]

Larkin, Colin (1994). Guinness Book of Top 1000 Albums (1ed.). Gullane Children's Books. p.91. ISBN 978-0-85112-786-6. Kahn, Ashley (2001). Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece. foreword by Cobb, Jimmy, Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-81067-0. From the lead-in groove to the run-out groove, there is no pitch to the profile, allowing the customer’s stylus to play truly perpendicular to the grooves from edge to center. Kind of Blue is based entirely on modality, diverging from Davis's earlier hard bop style of jazz with its complex chord progression and improvisation. [6] The entire album was a series of modal sketches, with each performer given a set of scales that encompassed the parameters of their improvisation and style. [22] This recording style contrasted with the typical preparation of providing musicians with the complete score or, for improvisational jazz, providing the musicians with a chord progression or series of harmonies. [3]a b "Kind of Blue". Acclaimed Music. Archived from the original on April 21, 2017 . Retrieved September 19, 2015. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Fisher, Tyler (June 30, 2006). "Miles Davis – Kind of Blue". Sputnikmusic . Retrieved September 10, 2023. ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2016 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved September 19, 2008.

The lasting value of a recorded masterpiece lies not only in the notion of reaching and grasping the music itself, but in using it as a doorway to other pathways. Kind of Blue, it can be argued, earns its accolades less for its continuing sales or critical popularity, and more for its long-serving role as the portal for so many who come to jazz for the first time. Davis, Miles; Jeff Sultanof (2002). Miles Davis – Birth of the Cool Complete Score Book. US: Hal Leonard. pp.2–3. ISBN 0634006827. Archived from the original on November 6, 2012 . Retrieved February 22, 2011. Kind of Blue has been lauded as one of the most influential albums in the history of jazz. One reviewer has called it a "defining moment of twentieth century music". [42] Several of the songs from the album have become jazz standards. Kind of Blue is consistently ranked among the greatest albums of all time. [43] In a review of the album, AllMusic senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine stated: a b "American album certifications – Miles Davis – Kind of Blue". Recording Industry Association of America.

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Kind of Blue also benefited from Miles’ being signed to the leading major record company of the day — Columbia Records, a part of the CBS media conglomerate. Columbia had the means and wisdom to invest in cutting edge recording technology, and their own professional recording studio.