Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" (Columbia/Legacy)
By Brian Moore
Monday. Apr 25, 12:28 AM
Timelessness reissued.

It’s been about 45 years since Kind of Blue was released by Columbia, and the album has garnered the kind of universal acclaim and iconic status normally reserved for the high art of Picasso and popularity of The Beatles. Kind of Blue is widely considered the par excellence of jazz albums since it is so flawlessly good. In his effort to reinvent the wheel, Miles Davis’ masterpiece proved to be a watershed moment in the jazz world. He sought to revisit modal jazz in which solo or group improvisation around melody is the focus instead of conventional and complex chord structures. Miles wanted to work from key and feel rather than theory. So the band, comprised of Miles, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, Paul Chambers, and Jimmy Cobb worked from loose compositions and arrangements and then committed their live sessions to tape, thus capturing the feel and dynamics of an improvised set. The result is a collection of songs that flow together in a lightly stitched tapestry of subtle nuances and shifts.

Miles effectively created what all artists hope and strive to achieve: a work of art that stratifies itself across musical boundaries and levels of taste. In a word, that would be genius. Layman and experts alike flock to this album and will for many years to come. An essential album if there ever was one.
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