Kind of Blue

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As Evans said in the original liner notes for the record, the band did not play through any of these pieces prior to recording. RCA Living Stereo classical LPs - the gold standard for top quality orchestral performance and sound! Johnson at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California, Break The Chain brings twelve new MacLeod originals. These sessions are so legendary, if I do anything in my life with as much vigor as these guys pumped out for this recording, I’ll die a happy man. Only a handful of albums come close to this one, but they still haven’t knocked it from its pinnacle of pure pleasure and excellence.

Its influence went way beyond the world of jazz with many rock and hip-hop musicians inspired by its modal compositions and deep textures.

The blueprint for melodic improvisation and vamping, Kind of Blue simplifies tonal organization and chordal progression into an eminently beautiful, introspective tapestry stitched with swinging poetry, mellifluous soloing, compositional lyricism, transcendental harmonies, and group interplay of the highest caliber. Long held as the jazz album that even non-jazz fans will own, 'Kind Of Blue' not only changed the way people regarded Miles, it changed the very face of music itself. As with each title, the music emerges from QRP’s beautifully flat and wonderfully silent surfaces with that much more “there-ness. This 1959 all-time classic is one of the monuments of jazz: So What; Freddie Freeloader; Blue in Green; All Blues , and Flamenco Sketches .

In its three-decade-plus history, Mobile Fidelity has never been prouder to have the honor of handling efforts as important as Davis' key recordings.A previously unreleased live recording of drum legend Art Blakey with a classic line-up of the Jazz Messengers, featuring trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt. I now own almost everything by Miles Davis and he is my ultimate musician of all time which is rather strange for a rocker.

Columbia had the means and wisdom to invest in cutting edge recording technology, and their own professional recording studio. Sixty years have passed; this LP bridges that time span in the best way possible, struck from the master reel of Kind of Blue, free of speed issues and replete with all the instrumental detail, sonic environment and minimal noise. Even for musicians of the calibre of Coltrane and Bill Evans, there’s a special unplannable magic here, where every player is utterly in the zone and in synergy. Here we hear a blowing session that matches him with fellow tenorist Harold Ashby in a program of loose originals.From that moment on, the record never really changes pace -- each tune has a similar relaxed feel, as the music flows easily. And if a certain horn riff on recent hits by Amy Winehouse and Christina Aguilera strikes you as familiar, that’s because their producer Mark Ronson borrowed it from James Brown’s 1967 hit “Cold Sweat” – a riff that the tune’s composer, Pee Wee Ellis, freely admits to lifting from “So What. In this release, his third album for Reference Recordings, Doug MacLeod continues to explore the breadth and depth of the human condition. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. All-in-all this edition of Kind of Blue meets the highest audiophile standards and offers the truest sound for the most enjoyment.