How Many Times Have You Listened To Miles Davis's "Kind Of Blue"?

i agree that it's the odd one out, but it's nice to have something a little harder swinging on the record.

the lack of bill evans is a bit distracting

speaking of this album, has anyone here bought the latest reissue? the $100 one with the vinyl and the CD and the book and the bonus trax? i think i have everything that was "previously unreleased" on it via bootleg ...

ugh vocalese

haha yuck

but are there good cover versions of the KOB songs? Evans' "Blue In Green" obviously ... I guess "Impressions" by Coltrane could be considered a cover ... Kenny Burrell has a nice trio version of "All Blues" ... what are some others?

This thread has kinda convinced I should buy KOB... After 10 years of listening to jazz.

xpost I've got a Pat Martino (post-amnesia) live album with version of both "All Blues" AND "Blue In Green"... but I can't remember what they sound like, which is probably not a great sign.

John McLaughlin has a rather nice Blue in Green on the album "My Goals Beyond" if memory can be trusted.

but are there good cover versions of the KOB songs?

James Brown, "Cold Sweat"

When did KOBN become canonical? my memory is that when i was starting to buy Jazz records (late 70s) it was accepted as a great Miles record, but not the great Miles record; i reckon Sketches or Silent Way were at least as likely to among the one or two Jazz LPs in a hip rock collection (or Bitches Brew, if the collection belonged to someone a little older)

it's wynton kelly, not red garland

Oops, correct indeed, thanks
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By 1980 or so, Miles' career had been long and varied enough for there to be pre-electric and post-electric canonical albums, and KOB was definitely it for the former.

Yeah, the McLaughlin "Blue in Green" is beautiful. That whole album is great.

I've listened to it less than 10 times and can basically sing everybody's solos from memory. I put on pretty much anything else more often though. Sketches of Spain when I really want that melancholy vibe, Live in Tokyo when I want burners, Miles in the Sky when I want oblique stuff.

Yeah, there's at least four other Miles albums I'm more likely to put on.

Pentangle did a great version of "All Blues."

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Which album?

ah nice

more than 10 less than 50

I don't know. I've owned it for about ten years. I'm sure I've listened to So What more than 50 times. Unsure about the whole thing.

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Hey, the 50th anniversary of KoB's release was yesterday.

And to celebrate its 50th anniversary, the 8-bit tribute album Kind of Bloop is out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n128y4LSsk

i like that idea. did they sequence all the solos or improvise new ones to use the hardware's capabilities or what, d'you think?

Good question! Just found out about it so I don't know! More at http://kindofbloop.com/ though.

This sounds kind of good.

downloading it now - was only five dollars - will probably listen to it all through train journey tomorrow

Was Kind of Blue a hugely popular dead end? I'd describe the characteristics of Kind of Blue are:

* modal jazz - multiple scales in one song, simplicity, no busy chord structures
* mood - generally restrained - doesn't rise above mid tempo, blues elements, but not 'bluesy'

Considering how successful it was, you'd expect umpteen sequels and derivatives, but Davis went off in a different direction soon after and the band went their separate ways. Adderley went full on soul jazz/hard bop. Coltrane experimented with modal but in a much busier, more frantic way. The main trends in jazz in the years after Kind of Blue were free jazz, hard bop, and the introduction of Latin elements. None of these were indebted in any significant way to Kind Of Blue.

Am I talking rubbish? Is there stuff in the vein of Kind of Blue that I don't know about? I guess candidates could include Bill Evans solo stuff, some early Herbie Hancock, The Blues and the Abstract Truth etc.

Just watched my dvr of the Miles doc on American Masters on PBS.

More than 50 for sure.

Less than ten, me.

I've only been properly listening to jazz since around 2012-ish. didn't grab me as hard as some other LPs to start with but it's become my go-to jazz album. it's one I can enjoy alone and in the company of others (who might be less tolerant of the style). so possibly around the 50 mark?

more than a hundred for sure

This and Sketches of Spain. I haven’t read much about their creation so I enjoyed a lot the coverage in the recent Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool documentary directed by Stanley Nelson

I'm interested in the question unanswered from five years ago -- what are Kind of Blue's successors?