Miles Davis - Kind of Blue Vinyl Record: Buy the Sealed LP Album

Tracks on this Album:

  1. So What
  2. Freddie Freeloader
  3. Blue in Green
  4. All Blues
  5. Flamenco Sketches
  6. So What
  7. Blue in Green
  8. All Blues
  9. On Green Dolphin Street
  10. Fran-Dance
  11. Stella by Starlight
  12. Love for Sale
  13. Fran-Dance
  14. So What

Other Albums by Miles Davis:

  • Blue Period
  • Dig
  • Blue Haze
  • Collectors' Items
  • Walkin'
  • And many more (full list coming soon)...

Reviews for Kind of Blue

What do you get when you put some of the greatest jazz players in the same room, turn on the tape machine, and just let them improvise and play from the heart?  You get an album like, Miles Davis’ Kind Of Blue, one that is regarded by many critics as the definitive jazz album and certainly a Miles Davis masterpiece; a pivotal album that has been cited by many music writers not only as Davis's best-selling album, but as the best-selling jazz record of all time. On October 7, 2008, it was certified quadruple platinum in sales by the (RIAA) and the album's influence on music, including jazz, rock and classical music, has led music writers to acknowledge it as one of the most influential albums of all time.

This is an exceptional band, playing exceptional, seminal music - Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb - playing at the peak of its power with prophetic spontaneity and melodic improvisation.  Recording sessions for the album took place at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City on March 2 and April 22, 1959 and Davis had only given the band sketches of scales and melody lines on which to improvise and this three-quarters of an hour jazz bliss was recorded in nine hours over two sessions.  From the mid-tempo opener and gentle piano chords of "So What," the album flows through many styles, the haunting "Blue In Green” with Kelly's subdue piano playing along with Davis' mournful, yet intrinsic trumpet is the perfect lead in for the next cut "All Blues,” a lengthy improvisational cut that sounds like music floating in the air, in no hurry to end, before reaching a soft conclusion.

In 2002, it was one of fifty recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. In 2003, the album was ranked #12 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2008, a box set release of Kind of Blue was issued by Legacy Records in commemoration of its fiftieth anniversary.   The LP is an unsurpassed adventure in sound and renowned hip hop artist and rapper Q-Tip only reaffirms the album's reputation and influence when discussing the significance of Kind of Blue, stating "It's like the Bible—you just have one in your house.”

submitted by Robert, 2009-10-23 14:56:00

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