There are certain albums that every human should listen to at some point in his/her life. This is most definitely one of them. An absolute masterpiece.
Required listening ,middle school,high school?Children don't know who Armstrong,Ellington,Miles or Coltrane are.A national disgrace.....not to mention guys like Roy Haynes,96,a National Treasure,still with us,and was still touring pre Covid.
An album I have heard all the way through, a hundred times, at least. It never gets old. One of my coolest Jazz cat meetups was with the drummer on this session,.the late Mr. Jimmy Cobb. I got to see and hear him play, but the battery died on my camera, and the only shot I got that night is a cell phone picture, of the two of us. He was a treasure. I have had the honor of meeting and hearing Jazz elders, who played with Miles and Coltrane, and Bill Evans, Cannonball, and more.
0:00-0:44 Head (24 measures, first + second ending) 0:44-2:14 Piano solo (Wynton Kelly, 4 choruses) 2:14-4:30 Trumpet solo (Miles Davis, 6 choruses) 4:30-6:21 Tenor saxophone solo (John Coltrane, 5 choruses) 6:21-8:13 Alto saxophone solo (Cannonball Adderley, 5 choruses) 8:13-8:55 Bass solo (Paul Chambers, 2 choruses) 8:55 Head (24 measures, first + second ending)
Agreed. IMHO the 'Trane solo is least 'Bluesy' of them all, yet beyond the typical Bebop Swinging and blowing, which was what Miles wanted all along. Coltrane's solo was like seeing a flower in bloom; or in his case, a genius in bloom. #respect
RUclips now uses Opus, which you'll be pleased to hear is much closer to lossless CD quality, even at low bitrates. Runs circles around a 320kbps MP3, even at 128kbps.
Oh yes, these tunes are just ace.....fellow jazziteer listener. I was born a couple of years after pink panther theme,. I'm 56 near end of this month. My father was biggest influence on me for liking jazz. My grandparents loved dance to earlier toons in the 30s also. Happy listening!
I know How u feel it’s something about the rain in Georgia and classic jazz, miles is from my hometown, East St. Louis ILL, I moved to Georgia and had priceless nights, at home listening to classic jazz at home when it rained, oh my God I understood what I was listening too
As a musician of 42 years under my belt, I realised that Miles was a school on his own. Listening him improves you, how wonderful all these great musicians who performed with him must have felt! Thank you for all the wonderful feelings you have given us.
Blue Jazzman Sometimes, songs on the same album can sound quite reminiscent of one another. I guess it's because they're in the same frame of mind at that time.
@@kevineben5385 "Wilbur James "Jimmy" Cobb (January 20, 1929 - May 24, 2020) was an American jazz drummer. He was part of Miles Davis's First Great Sextet."
I've been listening to this album for 50 years! Just gets better with time. Love the silences after Miles' phrases. Love the artistry with which drummer Jimmy Cobb sets up everyone's solos. Wynton Kelly's groove is mesmerizing.
Coltrane LOL! So restless. I love how he bounces so hard off the walls - literally - that you become acutely aware of the room as soon as he starts his solo.
My 10th grade poetry teacher introduced me to jazz - This was the first jazz cd I had ever heard! It blew my mind. Still just as good today. PS: almost at 1 million views.
Picked up a couple of my friends while visiting the ATL in 2004. They are good dudes but had zero affinity for jazz....so sad! En route to a spot to eat, Jeff asks, Who is this? I gave em the history lesson and Dave chimed in that he had to pick it up. The brother asked for total quiet while it was playing....hilarious but wise! Just like that....CONVERTS! We all know the story of what happened in 1959 regarding this album and it still serves the purpose. Music is very personal and this standard has withstood the test of time...probably always will. Kind of Blue truly set the tone!
@@adekolaajakaiye9650 totally. Like how John Coltrane held Naima for Wynton on Giant Steps instead of Tommy Flanagan. Wynton Kelly was like a secret weapon, no one could swing like him!
Touched reality to the tee everybody knows one Freddy the freeloader but just the same we love them thank you Miles Davis you're right on point with this cut God bless you and your family thank you
@@strawberrycake158 a time stamp is anything that denotes the time of an event, even if it's not a yt time stamp. i'm still confused why ur showing the year you are listening to it
This music is so complex, and the instrumental solos don't always make sense to me, yet they still flow beautifully and harmoniously together, ultimate expression, and improvisations are absolutely genius.
Not to be a contrarian here, but it isn't super complex when broken down. I'm learning the walking bass line. The progression and melody is shown in the Real Book and you can find it on youtube. If you learn the scales and the instrument it is only a matter of keeping everything in formation and in time. Otherwise, the complexity is a matter of unfamiliarity. If you want to learn it do some studying and you will see it is fairly simple. Idk what instrument you play but I hope this helps a bit. Once you crack the code it is not too bad. Take lessons if you need. That's what I did and it helped tremendously. Again, this isn't me taking a shot just to say that you can understand exactly what is going on by learning a bit about music keys and scales. It helps to appreciate it on a new level.
@@adekolaajakaiye9650 To my ears (and no further sources) it seems it was supposed to be a move from chordal complexity, to inspired melodic work with deep attention to playing something really meaningful. I suppose that can kind of look like complexity especially to a less trained ear, depth is probably better.
@KnzoVortex I can't tell a flattened fifth from a fifth of gin(apologies to Dizzy). I trust my ears and go with what I like. Simplistic? Maybe. Kind of Blue knocked me out the first time I heard it, and it still does. I 'sing', scat or hum along along to the solos.
I had started a small vinyl collection for my record player . and I found this gem at a second hand store in mission BC for like I think 2$ best two bucks I ever spent. I'm hooked.
This is the BEST REAL JAZZ ALBUM EVER MADE!!!! MILES DAVIS WAS THE MAN PLAIN AND SIMPLE!!! HE TOOK IT WHERE NO ONE ELSE EVER COULD. LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, WHEN HE LED THE WAY WITH THIS ALBUM EVERYBODY ELSE HAD TO GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD!!!!!
My man Miles Davis Freddie freeloader heavyweight I can still remember the days the 60s listen to 105 FM everybody was carrying the big boxes on their arms 105 FM heavyweights Jammin Jay Rich Man with those days ago miss you so much God bless you guys
This is truly, truly, truly, an amazing album. Certainly one of those precious few that have changed my view on music to yet another perspective (you catch a fair few playing multiple instruments, and listening non-stop), and absolutely one of the most pristine recordings ever made. Something I personally reckon that anyone who has some semblance of music taste should listen to, at the very least once. Its a shame that an absolute multitude can't even stand a few bars of jazz, let alone a whole album, and most despise the stuff, despite how much absolute skill and knowledge goes into even the most mundane solo in the diveyest bars. Oh well. Here's to hoping my young generation raises their children to have halfway decent taste.
0:45 Wynton Kelly 🎹
2:13 Miles Davis 🎺
4:30 John Coltrane 🎷
6:21 Cannonball Adderley 🎷
8:14 Paul Chambers 🎻
8:56 All together! 😀
Thanks. Great contribution.
Once again Coltrane laps Miles on his own joint
@@mischoo2258 Agreed Coltrane is King here !!
Bill Evans or Wynton Kelly on Freddie Freeloader?
@@marcoliver7914 Wynton Kelly on this track
There are certain albums that every human should listen to at some point in his/her life. This is most definitely one of them. An absolute masterpiece.
It really is this album imo is a total masterpiece 10/10 album all the songs on here are so flawless and perfect not one bad song.
A MAJOR masterpiece. Each tune recorded in one take. Brilliant.
@@MegaMikeArnold yea man this is the best album ever created in music history of all genres and all eras.
Yep, this and Nasty as They Wanna Be by 2 Live Crew. Tasty got yo back!!
Required listening ,middle school,high school?Children don't know who Armstrong,Ellington,Miles or Coltrane are.A national disgrace.....not to mention guys like Roy Haynes,96,a National Treasure,still with us,and was still touring pre Covid.
And this is what they did on the first freaking take. AMAZING.
1st complete take...
Lies again? Pay Fees
My little nephew sounds the same when he gets a new toy instrument.
@@GoCanes2001you sound angry
@@oscarbrown9526You’re tone deaf. Which isn’t surprising, since you like this shit.
An album I have heard all the way through, a hundred times, at least.
It never gets old. One of my coolest Jazz cat meetups was with the drummer on this session,.the late Mr. Jimmy Cobb. I got to see and hear him play, but the battery died on my camera, and the only shot I got that night is a cell phone picture, of the two of us. He was a treasure. I have had the honor of meeting and hearing Jazz elders, who played with Miles and Coltrane, and Bill Evans, Cannonball, and more.
Don't forget the Philly Joe. Jones musical impact on Miles
So true
@jim hutchison YES! For sure.
That drive Jimmy had is in my mind every time I play
Legendary album in jazz history
0:00-0:44 Head (24 measures, first + second ending)
0:44-2:14 Piano solo (Wynton Kelly, 4 choruses)
2:14-4:30 Trumpet solo (Miles Davis, 6 choruses)
4:30-6:21 Tenor saxophone solo (John Coltrane, 5 choruses)
6:21-8:13 Alto saxophone solo (Cannonball Adderley, 5 choruses)
8:13-8:55 Bass solo (Paul Chambers, 2 choruses)
8:55 Head (24 measures, first + second ending)
This song reminds me distinctly of the weather from a late period in 2022 when I started driving on the coastal road down towards Santa Cruz.
Nothing like listening to this drinking a glass of wine, and looking at the rain pouring down, exactly when I am doing right now in Georgia 2020.
We're listening under a 3/4 moon, clear Marlborough NZ sky, glass of dry pinot gris and it sounds awesome here too mate!
Indeed fresh vegetables music for the soul
The rain always pours when this magical record plays. Like a raindance.
as it should be ...miles must be enjoyed in an place of solitude ...just too good to do in haste ...
Or smoking weed
Coltrane's solo improvisation from 4:30 is mind-blowing flight of fantasy! Ofcourse all members of this session is outstanding jazz geniuses!
Absolutely. Maybe the smoothest Sax solo of all time.
Agreed. IMHO the 'Trane solo is least 'Bluesy' of them all, yet beyond the typical Bebop Swinging and blowing, which was what Miles wanted all along. Coltrane's solo was like seeing a flower in bloom; or in his case, a genius in bloom. #respect
@@spencerraney4979 I've always felt something from this particular solo.
It’s so genius
@@spencerraney4979 🌤
23 years ago I listened to this masterpiece on SuperAudio-CD's DSD and now RUclips's mp3 on two bridged class d main amps. Strange how life goes
RUclips now uses Opus, which you'll be pleased to hear is much closer to lossless CD quality, even at low bitrates.
Runs circles around a 320kbps MP3, even at 128kbps.
never get tired of Miles Davis especially So What.
...And Blue in green......
Same
I thought I liked music, but I had only scratched the surface. This is the music of the laid back gods! And I love it!
We have been blessed to live at a time when a musician's "voice" can be heard through time and space.
Sounds very classy. Total 'Pink Panther Theme' Ride Cymbal Sound. Absolutely amazing tones.
Oh yes, these tunes are just ace.....fellow jazziteer listener. I was born a couple of years after pink panther theme,. I'm 56 near end of this month. My father was biggest influence on me for liking jazz. My grandparents loved dance to earlier toons in the 30s also. Happy listening!
I know How u feel it’s something about the rain in Georgia and classic jazz, miles is from my hometown, East St. Louis ILL, I moved to Georgia and had priceless nights, at home listening to classic jazz at home when it rained, oh my God I understood what I was listening too
Jazz is great music to get up to or sleep to. Good on a rainy day or watching a nice sunset. Perfect for almost all occasions.
As a musician of 42 years under my belt, I realised that Miles was a school on his own. Listening him improves you, how wonderful all these great musicians who performed with him must have felt! Thank you for all the wonderful feelings you have given us.
The most talented jazz's musicians going right at it who ever played together. Just awesome. All that jazz baby yesss.
0:45 Wynton Kelly
2:13 Miles Davis
4:30 John Coltrane
6:21 Cannonball Adderley
Thank you you've saved me so much practice time lol
Muchísimas gracias 😘
Literal lifesaver
Y el gran jimmy cob!!!
♥
Sweetest piano solo ever!
Fo sho. I bought lil keyboard just to hit that. 3rd or 4th note in I was lost.
love matters
This music is great for all kinds of moods and seasons...it works anytime!
Defo
Exactly
The beginning sounds like "So What" backwards! What a genius!!!
Blue Jazzman Sometimes, songs on the same album can sound quite reminiscent of one another. I guess it's because they're in the same frame of mind at that time.
true, they are similar but it all works out :)
So if I sing Marry Had a Little Lamb backwards, I'm a genius. Simp.
Its because its modal jazz
@@Frankincensedjb123 Calm down dude
For Jimmy Cobb, the drummer on this. Godspeed and good journey, Jimmy Cobb.
What are you talking about 😅
@@kevineben5385 "Wilbur James "Jimmy" Cobb (January 20, 1929 - May 24, 2020) was an American jazz drummer. He was part of Miles Davis's First Great Sextet."
I've been listening to this album for 50 years! Just gets better with time. Love the silences after Miles' phrases. Love the artistry with which drummer Jimmy Cobb sets up everyone's solos. Wynton Kelly's groove is mesmerizing.
Living my best life listen to this also me is paris at my apartment near the effiel tower Studying and drinking coffe
Nah this mad tough 😎
Thank you Jimmy Cobb for your contributions to great music. RIP.
This is the breath of God, no doubt
I feel like I’ve gone into another time dimension in a fabulous way 😎
you have, .I know I have
Indeed
At Dodger Stadium, they sometimes play this song on the organ when Freddie Freeman is at bat, and I think it's a great touch.
One of my many jazz vinyls that I have in my collection. Miles was the best!
Miles will always personify cool.
Not to Mrs Miles to whom he was a bastard.
@@stevespencer7442 Well, I'm sure she loved him anyway.
I love you Gwyn!
Coltrane LOL! So restless. I love how he bounces so hard off the walls - literally - that you become acutely aware of the room as soon as he starts his solo.
Literally a soundtrack for creative souls. Pure genius!
Jazz takes you to a whole new level, people today need more jazz
Lî it
It's the classical music of our age
Fr
@@seancole7854
that snare drum does my head in
jimmy cobb what elegance what musical criteria!!!! that drum blew my mind
Proper music never gets old - This sublime record proves this beyond any doubt...
The very elites mealtime..
Let the foot tapping begin. ✌🏾It's Sunday night, listening to this you could easily feel you've got a table up front hearing the band play
*Wynton Kelly*
0:45
1:02
2nd Chorus:
1:25
1:47
*Miles Davis*
2:13
2:35
2nd Chorus:
2:58
3:19
3rd Chorus:
3:43
4:05
*John Coltrane*
4:30
4:51
2nd Chorus:
5:12
5:35
3rd Chorus:
5:56
*Cannonball Adderley*
6:21
6:40
2nd Chorus:
7:05
7:25
3rd Chorus:
7:49
My 10th grade poetry teacher introduced me to jazz - This was the first jazz cd I had ever heard! It blew my mind. Still just as good today. PS: almost at 1 million views.
Winton Kelly bursts with joy.
Award Winning Drums and Bass!
Pure genius is a gross understatement.
I'm with you
This is one of those rare albums that is impossible to overhype.
what a song
Bro 😮
Your se
He is one of the finest trumpet ever. back in the fifty we would have a great time dancing and having good clean fun. So nice to hear and reminisce.
Lafrance Cotten Shit wasn't too clean at Miles's performances.
He was the trumpet?
PeterThaBeater Damn right.
Jazz was not clean. When you think about the culture is pretty hardcore
that must've been quite the time to grow up
What a wonderful way to play the blues.
miles davis SUCH CLASS & SOUL LISENING STILL 2022 @ 70 JAZZ FREAK SO CHILL!
Picked up a couple of my friends while visiting the ATL in 2004. They are good dudes but had zero affinity for jazz....so sad! En route to a spot to eat, Jeff asks, Who is this? I gave em the history lesson and Dave chimed in that he had to pick it up. The brother asked for total quiet while it was playing....hilarious but wise! Just like that....CONVERTS! We all know the story of what happened in 1959 regarding this album and it still serves the purpose. Music is very personal and this standard has withstood the test of time...probably always will. Kind of Blue truly set the tone!
The best selling jazz album of all time, just listen and you'll understand why.
Truly music in its purest finest form
I love how the bass moves in the beginning of the song
What a masterpiece !
This album is the milestone of hard bop .
That's Julian 'Cannonball' Adderly taking the solo on the alto sax at 6;40... :)
And what a solo it is!
he kills it as always
I like the way this makes me feel
I played the trumpet for 3 years while in school and always crave this kind of environment. True art in our modern days 🤙🏆
Wonderful music!
A Masterpiece at its best love it
Brilliant As Always Thank you Miles (RIP) 🎺 MASTER 💙
Majestic
Masterpiece. Wynton Kelly's solo is an absolute gem 💎
I totally agree with you!!
Majestic and royal fit for royalty. My fave song on the album because of his opening. The rest of my body was jealous of my ears.
@hevertonrocha7707 Miles held the tune for him and not Bill Evans. I guess this is the reason.
@@adekolaajakaiye9650 totally. Like how John Coltrane held Naima for Wynton on Giant Steps instead of Tommy Flanagan. Wynton Kelly was like a secret weapon, no one could swing like him!
This took only 9 minutes and 47 seconds to record but it's been played for hundreds of thousands of hours around the world... timeless!
Touched reality to the tee everybody knows one Freddy the freeloader but just the same we love them thank you Miles Davis you're right on point with this cut God bless you and your family thank you
The second sax solo, which I believe is played by Cannonball Adderley, is fantastic, what swing and groove!
Listening to this playlist while doing anything, ANYTHING at all, even doing homework, is just *perfection* .
(2024)
whyd you time stamp it
@@shmeee3636it's not a time stamp, it's showing the year that i'm listening to it
@@strawberrycake158 isnt that what a time stamp is
@@shmeee3636 i think a timestamp is a moment in the video (example: 12:00)
@@strawberrycake158 a time stamp is anything that denotes the time of an event, even if it's not a yt time stamp. i'm still confused why ur showing the year you are listening to it
2023. 90’s baby. I love this type of music. Really soothes and relaxes me. ❤
This is a great selection of Jazz which we all know is ageless
A timeless classic. Love it always.
Fantástico! :)
This music is so complex, and the instrumental solos don't always make sense to me, yet they still flow beautifully and harmoniously together, ultimate expression, and improvisations are absolutely genius.
Not to be a contrarian here, but it isn't super complex when broken down. I'm learning the walking bass line. The progression and melody is shown in the Real Book and you can find it on youtube. If you learn the scales and the instrument it is only a matter of keeping everything in formation and in time. Otherwise, the complexity is a matter of unfamiliarity. If you want to learn it do some studying and you will see it is fairly simple. Idk what instrument you play but I hope this helps a bit. Once you crack the code it is not too bad. Take lessons if you need. That's what I did and it helped tremendously. Again, this isn't me taking a shot just to say that you can understand exactly what is going on by learning a bit about music keys and scales. It helps to appreciate it on a new level.
In his book with Quincy Troupe, Miles said that in writing for the KOB album, he wanted to get away from chordal complexities.
@@adekolaajakaiye9650 To my ears (and no further sources) it seems it was supposed to be a move from chordal complexity, to inspired melodic work with deep attention to playing something really meaningful. I suppose that can kind of look like complexity especially to a less trained ear, depth is probably better.
@KnzoVortex
I can't tell a flattened fifth from a fifth of gin(apologies to Dizzy).
I trust my ears and go with what I like.
Simplistic? Maybe.
Kind of Blue knocked me out the first time I heard it, and it still does.
I 'sing', scat or hum along along to the solos.
The impetus 🎹 piano solo s phenomenal!
This is a singular masterwork of the highest Artistic order. It is my recommendation that you listen to this Album at least once a day....
MILES DAVIS Serbia Loves you good man! R.I.P
I had started a small vinyl collection for my record player . and I found this gem at a second hand store in mission BC for like I think 2$ best two bucks I ever spent. I'm hooked.
This is classy classic!
I love the 11 and a half bar chorus going back into the head, very cool
First jazz I've really ever listened to but I love ❤ it
So smoooottthhheee
Great Wynton Kelly with his happy notes, starts up this great track Freddy Freeloader. What a genius on piano!!
Kelly, Cobb and Chambers just has so much chemistry together.
The man can swang
As we know, you cannot, 'bend' notes on a piano. Wynton does it here, on this solo, a couple of times. Listen, you will hear.
A perfect background music of the ghetto life in backalley cities
Beautiful... this song is just like a very sweet and lovebly night with the person that you love.
Jazz is soo cool!
This is the BEST REAL JAZZ ALBUM EVER MADE!!!! MILES DAVIS WAS THE MAN PLAIN AND SIMPLE!!! HE TOOK IT WHERE NO ONE ELSE EVER COULD. LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, WHEN HE LED THE WAY WITH THIS ALBUM EVERYBODY ELSE HAD TO GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD!!!!!
Beautiful music 🎶🎵
Now this is a playlist!!!
Transcribing Miles' solo...great stuff!
I love jazz
My man Miles Davis Freddie freeloader heavyweight I can still remember the days the 60s listen to 105 FM everybody was carrying the big boxes on their arms 105 FM heavyweights Jammin Jay Rich Man with those days ago miss you so much God bless you guys
Amazing!!
@Tonia Broges sem dúvidas
I think this is MIles’ best album ever! I have listened to it probably hundreds of times and yes, I own the album!
This is the album you can fall asleep to
he's the best on the music history
This is truly, truly, truly, an amazing album. Certainly one of those precious few that have changed my view on music to yet another perspective (you catch a fair few playing multiple instruments, and listening non-stop), and absolutely one of the most pristine recordings ever made. Something I personally reckon that anyone who has some semblance of music taste should listen to, at the very least once. Its a shame that an absolute multitude can't even stand a few bars of jazz, let alone a whole album, and most despise the stuff, despite how much absolute skill and knowledge goes into even the most mundane solo in the diveyest bars. Oh well. Here's to hoping my young generation raises their children to have halfway decent taste.
❤
Very very nice thanks for sharing
Que elegante la batería esa simpleza que criterio el gran Jimmy Cob!!!!!
Simplesmente sublime
I really love this track! I use it to study, it feels being on the 50s
Wonderful! Amazing Miles!