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.
― WmC, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― BIG WORLD HOOS. WEBSTEEN. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, there's at least four other Miles albums I'm more likely to put on.
― Ringtone Tycoon (The Reverend), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Pentangle did a great version of "All Blues."
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 08:22 (fifteen years ago) link
!!
― BIG WORLD HOOS. WEBSTEEN. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 08:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Which album?
ah nice
― BIG WORLD HOOS. WEBSTEEN. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 08:25 (fifteen years ago) link
more than 10 less than 50
― dmr, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 4 December 2008 09:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey, the 50th anniversary of KoB's release was yesterday.
― Hugh Manatee (WmC), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
And to celebrate its 50th anniversary, the 8-bit tribute album Kind of Bloop is out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n128y4LSsk
― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 21 August 2009 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― thomp, Friday, 21 August 2009 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Good question! Just found out about it so I don't know! More at http://kindofbloop.com/ though.
― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 21 August 2009 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
This sounds kind of good.
― tylerw, Friday, 21 August 2009 00:45 (fourteen years ago) link
downloading it now - was only five dollars - will probably listen to it all through train journey tomorrow
― thomp, Friday, 21 August 2009 01:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― the_ecuador_three, Friday, 22 May 2015 11:15 (eight years ago) link
Just watched my dvr of the Miles doc on American Masters on PBS.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 March 2020 04:33 (four years ago) link
More than 50 for sure.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 6 March 2020 05:14 (four years ago) link
Less than ten, me.
― Mark G, Friday, 6 March 2020 08:14 (four years ago) link
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?
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Friday, 6 March 2020 09:53 (four years ago) link
more than a hundred for sure
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 6 March 2020 10:17 (four years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 March 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
I'm interested in the question unanswered from five years ago -- what are Kind of Blue's successors?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 6 March 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link