Miles Davis

...him to find similarities that had generally escaped notice. In Hank Williams's "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," he hears chord changes similar to those in Miles Davis's "All Blues. " He interpolates Monk's "Misterioso" in "You Are My Sunshine,"...

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...felt that if you needed to be educated to like something then it was most probably bollocks. I do have to admit to owning Miles Davis's Kind of Blue. It's one of those albums with the word blue in it that it seems to be almost compulsory to...

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...Blue, one so illuminating that it allows the past and the future to be seen and heard simultaneously. Visit Miles Davis on the web. Track listing: CD1: So What; Freddie Freeloader; Blue In Green; All Blues; Flamenco Sketches; Flamenco...

In this article: Kind of Blue, So What, Flamenco Sketches, Blue, DVD, Love for Sale, and Blue in Green

...sextet in October 1957, three months prior to John Coltrane's return to the group. Adderley played on the seminal Davis records Milestones '' and ''Kind of Blue. This period also overlapped with pianist Bill Evans's time with the sextet, an...

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...changes stacked upon chord changes. It required deep musical sophistication to play that style, but while Davis had the chops for bophad indeed been one of its prime movershe had lost his enthusiasm. I think a movement in jazz is beginning...

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...a bartender at a Philadelphia club called Nightlife, of whom piano player Herbie Hancock says, "Freddie was very street-smart, and Miles was always attracted to people who had brains and an interesting approach to life") to the pre-Blue...

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Its vapory piano introduction is universally recognized". Producer Quincy Jones, one of Davis' longtime friends, wrote: "That Kind of Blue' will always be my music, man. I play ''Kind of Blue every day-it's my orange juice. It still...

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...a new DVD (incorporating some previous footage) that brings to life the legendary recording session for "Blue," as well as insight into Davis' life; a 12-inch LP of the original album; a 60-page book of essays and photos; television...

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...his magnum opus '', ''Kind of Blue. He called back Bill Evans, months away from forming what would become his seminal trio , for the album sessions as the music had been planned around Evans' piano style. Both Davis and Evans had direct...

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