Kind off Blue

Kind off Blue (1959) is an album of the Compositeur and Trompettiste of American Jazz Miles Davis.

According to the usual practice of Miles Davis, little time before the recording, it called musicians to exploit this album, the latter having little or not ideas on what they were going indeed to play.

Except for Flamenco Sketches , which had two catches, all the pieces were recorded with only one catch.

Kind off Blue is often regarded as the best sale of album of Jazz of all times. It is especially one of major works of Miles Davis: it will have much influence on the music Jazz, but also on the Rock (source of inspiration for the Pink Floyd, for example). Many pieces (to be started with So What ) are emblematic modal play of Miles Davis at that time, i.e. with counter-current of usual interpretation tonal where the melody is articulated around sentences - “phrased” - and of resolutions. This album is thus characteristic of the modal Jazz.

Genesis

At the end of 1958, Davis creates one of the best groups of jazz made up of the saxophonist viola Cannonball Adderley, of the saxophonist tenor John Coltrane, of the pianist Wynton Kelly, the bass player Paul Chambers, and of the beater Jimmy Cobb. This group played of the standards of the pop music and the music Bebop such as those of Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Tadd Dameron.

However, Miles Davis belonged to these musicians of jazz which were increasingly dissatisfied by the bebop, judging that the complexity of the harmonic grids obstructs the creativity. In 1953, the pianist George Russell published off these Lydian Chromatic Concept Tonal Organization, where it describes an new approach of the improvisation, which will be known under the term of modal Jazz.

Sessions

The album was recorded at two sessions, on March 2nd for the pieces " So What, " " Freddie Freeloader, " and " Blue in Green, " who are over the first face of the original disc, and on April 22nd for the pieces " All Blues, " " Sketches flamenco, " contents on face 2.

All the compositions were written by Miles Davis. However, it is known that the introduction of " So What" was written by Gil Evans, and that Bill Evans entirely wrote " Blue in Green". This appropriation is far from being single in the world of the jazz, Miles Davis having been " victime" such practices itself.

Titles of the album

Composition of Miles Davis, except Blue in Green by Bill Evans.

  • So What - (9: 22)

It is a topic of 32 measurements (8 X 2 on an agreement of minor D 7th - a bridge of 8 measurements on semi B minor 7th - 8 on minor D 7th) lending itself well to the modal improvisation. The composition Impressions of the saxophonist John Coltrane is built on the same harmonic grid. This piece was in particular taken again by Michel Petrucciani and Ronny Jordan which popularized a version guitar of it on its first album " the antidote".

  • Freddie Freeloader - (9: 46)

It is a blues in B flat in 12 measurements where two last measurements vary once on two. The first time, it is A flat and the second B flat. (either thus the first degree of the range, the same agreement as for the first 4 measurements)

  • Blue in Green - (5: 37)

It is a piece cyclic in 10 measurements making following an introduction in 4 measurements and interpreted by the soloists with various increases and reductions of measurements.

  • All Blues - (11: 33)

It is a Blues in ground with 12 measures to a tempo 6/8. This Standard of jazz was taken again by many musicians. Its apparent facility did of this title one of the war-horses preferred of the jazzmen amateurs using the Real Book.

  • Flamenco Sketches - (9: 26)

Flamenco sketches gathers a series of five ranges, played as a long time each one by the soloist as it wishes until it completed the series.

  • Flamenco Sketches - (9: 32) (Taken additional)

Musicians

Production

  • Michael Cuscuna - producer repeat broadcast
  • Larry Keyes - producer
  • Teo Macero - producer
  • Fred Plaut - sound engineer
  • Irving Townsend - producer
  • Wilder Mark - engineer, remixing
  • Gift Hunstein - photography
  • Seth Rothstein - director project
  • Jay Maisel - photography
  • Rene Arsenault - producing assistant

External bonds

  • Small pocket and infos by allmusic

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