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by: Miles Davis
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074646493564
Format: SACD
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: August 14, 2001
Sales Rank: 4234
Studio: Sony
Disc 1:- So What
- Freddie Freeloader
- Blue in Green
- All Blues
- Flamenco Sketches
- Flamenco Sketches
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential recording:
This is the one jazz record owned by people who don't listen to jazz, and with good reason. The band itself is extraordinary (proof of Miles Davis's masterful casting skills, if not of God's existence), listing John Coltrane and Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley on saxophones, Bill Evans (or, on 'Freddie Freeloader,' Wynton Kelly) on piano, and the crack rhythm unit of Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums. Coltrane's astringency on tenor is counterpoised to Adderley's funky self on alto, with Davis moderating between them as Bill Evans conjures up a still lake of sound on which they walk. Meanwhile, the rhythm partnership of Cobb and Chambers is prepared to click off time until eternity. It was the key recording of what became modal jazz, a music free of the fixed harmonies and forms of pop songs. In Davis's men's hands it was a weightless music, but one that refused to fade into the background. In retrospect every note seems perfect, and each piece moves inexorably towards its destiny. --John Szwed
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - I'd take it on a desert island
Owned this labum for more than 10 years, I love Coltrane (not all), I love Miles (not all), and many others (I recommend Abdullah Ibrahim), but this one is the quintessence, the one I ALWAYS go back to. I just don't grow weary. If I were to take one album on desert island, that would be Kind of Blue.
Rating: - One of the best by Miles Davis
It's hard to pick a best of Miles, but this is definitely one of them
Rating: - Truely jazz's greates masterpiece
Miles Daves sets the stage for cool jazz with this masterpiece. It is truely timeless and as relivent today as ever.
Rating: - Arguably the greatest jazz album of all time.
"Kind of Blue" is a landmark piece of music. Right at the apex of all these great musicians careers. It is timeless, beautiful and mesmerizing to listen to. "Blue in Green" is dreamy, ethereal and worthy of the "repeat" button on your player over and over. It's all just very magical.
Really, it's arguably the greatest ALBUM ever recorded, not the greatest jazz album......
Rating: - A Game Changer
This album was part of Miles' "Second Coming." Cut with only "one take" and no practice sessions. They just walked into the recording studio and "did it." What they created "on the spot was not only fresh, but also "leading edge" for a very fertile period in Jazz. And it still remains virtually unsurpassed as improvised creative arts go. As Miles said in his autobiography, "I play what I know, and then I go above it."
That is what is done here: The whole group "goes above what they know" ... Read More
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