Kind of Blue - 50th Anniversary

[Matt in the Hat]

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Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released August 17, 1959 on Columbia Records. The recording sessions for the album took place at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City on March 2 and April 22, 1959. The sessions featured Davis's ensemble sextet, which included pianists Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly, drummer Jimmy Cobb, bassist Paul Chambers, and saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley. Production was handled entirely by Teo Macero and Irving Townsend. After the inclusion of Bill Evans into his sextet, Davis followed up on the modal experimentations of Milestones (1958) and 1958 Miles (1958) by basing the album entirely on modality, in contrast to his earlier work with the hard bop style of jazz.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_of_Blue

Happy birthday to the greatest piece of recorded music in the history of the planet.

[Auriaprottu]

50th. 50th anniversary.

Still one of the greatest albums of all time, tho.

[minorthreat]

Kind of Blue occupies a strange place in Miles' catalog, as it's his most successful album, yet wasn't recorded by either of his greatest ensembles - the 50's quintet with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones, or the 60's-70's quintet with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams.

[Crimen y Castigo]

Kind of Blue occupies a strange place in Miles' catalog, as it's his most successful album, yet wasn't recorded by either of his greatest ensembles - the 50's quintet with John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones, or the 60's-70's quintet with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams.

Two words answers that puzzler:
Bill. Evans.

[chad]

The answer is clearly: The Pixies.

;)

But I'm going to listen to Kind of Blue right now.

[luftmensch]

Two words answers that puzzler:
Bill. Evans.

And Cannonball Adderly adds a funky edge too. I love hearing the juxtaposition of his style and Coltrane's on that album.

Prolly the best Supergroup since Blind Faith.

[Dr. Know]

Two words answers that puzzler:
Bill. Evans.

Yep. Here's a nice article:

Kind of Blue at Fifty: Stalked by Bill Evans' Ghost (http://www.counterpunch.org/yearsley08142009.html)

My favorite of Miles' ensembles though was hit early 70's stuff. Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, and Airto Moreira. Sick.

[Dr. Wankler]

Speaking of Jack DeJohnette, wasn't Keith Jarrett on a few of those albums in that era?

[Dr. Know]

Yeah Keith Jarret appears mostly on some of the live recordings of the era like Live Evil and Cellar Door Sessions.

He also played with Miles at the Isle of Wight festival in 1970. The performance(which is great) is on the DVD Electric Miles.

[Alberto]

Great album that still stands the test of time. I agree that Bill Evans work is incredible particularly in Blue into Green.