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eight months pass...
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
five years pass...
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
four years pass...
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
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