It's gone 3am in Oxford UK and I'm awake, imagining a guy driving a bus round Reykjavik, listening to Miles. Driving must be smooth. Kind of like the start of Taxi Driver, lights outside, red, white, all that vibe. If only I smoked I could go a joint right now . . .
When I purchased this album the clerk said, "This album will change your life!". I did not pay much attention to what he said... He then reached across the counter and grabbed my arm and said, "Man, THIS IS GOING TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE!" I will always remember that encounter.
ha ha ohyea iam having a musical awakeing . i looked for anyone giving this album to the world just to say ohhhhhhh shit the phrasing ........ it makes ..........shit i dont know ..i cry out , like a thrill throw the spine . I play guitar born 62 so love Beatles classical but jazz.......no But this album was 70ish in a music survey so i gave it a listen It does have structure so the blues did grab me ....but lots of ....... well..... just sounds.... mood evoking .......without me realy knowing why.. and then.............drop the penny....oh my ......the phrasing.......shit!!, ....it forces primordal grunnts (what else can you call it!!!) Please excuse any spelling grammer whate er but had to get this out. LISTEN TO THIS ALBUM...................... once a month. If you don't like it .....well at least it stretches out time (feel like you're living longer....).---. Anyway a big thank you to anyone upping this .And yes , that means YOU!!
Jazz and Blues gave concentrations and joy as student in 80s. I played them in my room when studying or designing and changed to Walkman when in the library. That was another level then.
I bought this album in about 1970 and 17 years later my eldest son came home from university and said that you gotta listen to this. It was the same album the same cover the same everything. And I’m still listening to it and it is now 2023
been on this album for nearly 40 years...was turned onto it by an older woman and never looked back. Its been a constant feature of my life that never gets old, ever..
I've quit smoking cigarettes some months ago ahah but sometimes, an Espresso and an handmade Tuscan cigar is essential while listening jazz music :) I recommend it
Hi I’m from Ethiopia . I’m painting and the part I painted with Miles playing is much more beautiful and much more sophisticated because his music allowed me not to feel stress and pressure pushes me to execute with surgical precision , I find myself being in the band with them all but my part is to be played with colors and brushes . Mr Miles makes it so that I let go of my inhibitions and fears and create freely !true Creation happens in a state of relaxation ! Listen now ! Imagine who miles got inspired by ? The energy of inspiration goes on and on until the end of time . Inspiration never dies go ahead make your inspired art and share it . That’s how we never die and touch the ultimate essence of eternity and Life . Miles lives in my painting and in your every action if you were lucky enough to enhance your life with his music . Brook zerai is the name , my painting will reach you if I let my inspiration go where Miles wants it to Go
Update: I couldn't find Kind Of Blue as a single album, so I bought a three CD five album package for £4.99. The best fiver I've spent in years. It includes Porgy and Bess and Sketches Of Spain. I looked for Gerry Mulligans Night Lights CD but HMV didn't have it, so I'll order it. I'm glad I've heard this cool jazz to go with all the music I've ever liked.
Its never too late to discover excellent music.I hope you get to enjoy this next 40 years ,so you can grasp the deep emotions I still feel after 4 decades of one of the most important jazz albums ever made.Come to think of what I just said that's baloney , the first time I was blown away it only grows deeper over time.
We had this tape in one restaurant that I used to work at. A side 90 minutes TDK cassette. By The time that we were closing I used to dim The lights and turn The volume just a little bit higher and enjoy IT after a bussy night. That was around, 1997, 1998. Enjoying IT still now days. Miles rules.
I was a police officer with the honolulu police dept......i had ruined my reputation due to drug use and crazy shit i had done off duty.,....i went to bed every day at 7 pm and woke up at 12 midnight and could not go back to sleep due to being so despondent.....at around 4 am i would get in my truck driving around and buy some coffee and donuts listening to this tape every morning before i started work at 6 am....i was as close to suicide as u could get....i quit and moved to the mainland and rebuilt my life....i can now listen to this record again and not feel bad.....it reminds of how lucky i am now.....
There's nothing to say about this astonishing album that hasn't already been said. In 2020 we need this musical masterpiece more than ever. Stay Safe guy's.
I hardly ever comment on you tube. But just finished listening to to it. I can't claim to know anything about music. Never even heard of this guy before. But that was beautiful. It got me deep down inside. Not sure what. Maybe people who know more can tell me. It was a joy. I am going to listen to it again right now.
It's 2 a.m., you're sitting in the dark in your lounge, city lights slanting through half-open venetians, rain pattering against the window and a nice tumbler of whiskey in your fist....this for me is Kind of Blue, this is when to listen to it and feel the worries of the world fall away from you.
+Papy Jacky - Oui, cher monsieur, c'est vraiment vrai. Mon premier 78 tours a été Saint Louis blues, de Armstrong, acheté en 1952 quand j'avais 14 ans. Après j'ai entendu à la V.O.A. le programme de Willis Conover, presque chaque soirée (une fois à 20 h), qui est devenu mon étoile comète pour apprendre et, depuis lors, de Armstrong, Jelly Roll, Beiderbecke, etc., je suis arrivé à Parker, à les quartets de Mulligan et de Brubeck, au MJQ et à beaucoup d'autres. Enfin à le Miles Davis de Bags Groove avec Monk et Milt Jackson, le meilleur Miles Davis. Après ces chefs d'oeuvre, pour moi, c'est impossible écouter Davis. Je pense que pour connaître et comprendre le jazz il faut commencer des origines. Merci.
“I’m thinking of you more than ever. It’s raining today and rainy Sundays are horrible for me. When it’s raining I can’t laundry and so I can’t iron my clothes. I can’t take a walk and I can’t lie down on the terrace. All that’s left for me to do is to endlessly listen to Kind of Blue and watch the rain outside the window.” “Norwegian forest” - page 264
I feel like it is a gloomy day in New York city but I am sitting down at a high class cafe with an enormous chandelier hanging over my head . I love that this music has the power to transport me, amazing music to listen to while studying or just anytime .
Released the year I was born. Dad had it so it was probably the first recorded music I heard. I'm still listening 62 years later. Amazing to think how old it is. When it reaches its centenary people will still be listening to it.
Heard this album at the age of 3, my dad was quite into this and so was I. Learned to play chess from my dad while listening to the record, learned to appreciate good whisky at a later stage. A life changer indeed😊 After my dad passed away I received the original album, every time I play it it reminds me of the good vibes my dad shared with me! Bought a UHQR version recently and oh man what a joy this turned out to be.
Loved this record from the first time I heard it nearly 50 years ago (yes, even I was young once!). Now listening to it in retirement, lazy afternoon with a cup of coffee to hand, and my little lovebirds, one asleep and the other singing away to the high notes. Hip bird!
You don't have to be a jazz nut to appreciate this masterpiece. If you know music then you know this track is so easy and underestimated. But if you really listen you start to understand that the musicality is something special. Something you've never heard before. Then you realise something special was going on here.❤
One of the greatest jazz albums of the 20th century and its timeless beauty will live on forever. The silky smoothness of the wonderful dulcet music is making my lockdown Sunday a very relaxed one and worry free while I sit in my garden with a topped up tall glass and revel in the splendour of Miles Davis. Cheers everyone and stay cool :o)
I listened to "Miles Davis's kind of blue" after Autumn Leaves. I learned later that such a great performance. And the performance that does not fade even now. Fresh no matter how many times you listen. It will be an eternal masterpiece.
This album reminds me of the time I was taking a coach trip to Disneyland Paris. I was listening to it on ear buds, it was quite late and other people on the coach were asleep. One of my best friends next to me said, "All I can hear is squeaky trumpet, it's really annoying." Cool story I know...
Kind of Blue. When I have to work and Ive got writers block I put this on and then the flow begins. Always soothes me and makes me creative (usually at my laptop in Honor Oak Park in Lewisham in London)
I recently discovered Miles. I started listening to jazz through Horace Silver, Coltrane and Oscar Peterson. Maybe because of his popularity, I Had been avoiding Miles until a musician friend, a jazz drummer From Amsterdam explained to me that Miles was a Romanticist. Something clicked in my head and From that time one I really admire him and my musicality Is boosted by combining jazz and opera and classical Music. Such An elevation and life changing moment when I realized I couldn t live without Music.
In modal jazz the general harmonic structure / framework revolves around scales (or modes) instead of chords. The chords in the background are based on the mode and are almost like an afterthought - the improvised melodies and the chords both revolve and are built open the modes. The difference can be sort of subtle because you can also think that if you define the tune through chords, you can of course define the right scales / modes for each chord as well, but it is a matter of which "comes first conceptually" and "which structure is the defining factor". In modal jazz the chords in the tune can often be quite simplistic and "stay the same" for a long time, leaving room for strong exploration of the mode in question.
The Jazz and Blues were art of my concentrations as a student in late 70s and 80s. The powers in them took people that understands to another level in their careers. God bless the old school artists which Miles Davis was one of them.
This album is so great that it can be considered a cornerstone album not only for jazz but music in general. Every artist should strive to make something this great, something that transcends generations I’m only 34 and my children and their children will know who Miles Davis is. Lastly it goes without saying that Miles would have never pulled this off without the support of the guys he had in his band he only had the greats Cannonball, Coltrane, Evans and company. Jazz was in its golden generation at that time this album was recorded.
This was the first LP I bought as a teenager. The simplicity of the melody, the modal changes and all those brilliant contrasting solos in So What. A total master piece.
60 years old today, and it still sounds as great as the first time I heard this classic jazz album. Track list: Side one 01. 00:00:00 - So What 02. 00:09:12 - Freddie Freeloader 03. 00:18:47 - Blue in Green Side two 01. 00:24:15 - All Blues 02. 00:35:55 - Flamenco Sketches Personnel (per the liner notes): Miles Davis - trumpet Julian "Cannonball" Adderley - alto saxophone (except on "Blue in Green") John Coltrane - tenor saxophone Bill Evans - piano (except on "Freddie Freeloader") Wynton Kelly - piano (on "Freddie Freeloader") Paul Chambers - double bass Jimmy Cobb - drums
I have never heard of you until today..I liked your name..you look like an artist..I clicked on your profile and was very pleasantly surprised that my instincts were right at the off!
Discovered at 18, that first cymbal still resonate in my minds and gives me chills on my skin, what sound they was able to record at that time, and the guy playing nice instead of trying covering the other ones, and the master, Miles !
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories for the summer of 2013, and "Fever Ray" - Karin Dreijer Andersson's 2009 album for the winter. I also listen to much more instrumental/electronic/post-rock at night or in the winter. Hope it helps!
A long hot bath, a snug warm robe and slippers, a cup of black coffee, a large comfortable clean bed, thick comforters, a good pictureless novel, a Do Not Disturb sign, and THIS. Heaven, become sinful :)
Thank you Miles and all the guys for the sheer beauty of it all. There is such consolation and delight in this incredible art, even on the darkest days you lift me,
Also how i got into jazz. Heard that this was best the jazz album and Somethin Else was its companion piece. Best 1-2 combo of Miles davis and Cannonball.
The most famous musical album of Miles Davis, the Kind of Blue, which was released in 1959 by Columbia Records. Voted as a National Treasure by the House of Representatives in 2009 for the 50th anniversary.
Its the atmosphere that it brings, the players who play here, very emotional and amazing players. Much like a 1 on 1 conversation you would have with your best friend... Also its called Kind of Blue... I feel the bluest when im alone and its night time.
The lines in Blue in Green are just so wistful. Reminiscent of a lonely night out on the street up to no good, drinking alone and waiting for the waking light of the morn. Beautiful stuff that I can't get my head around.
What a sublime masterpiece.Miles on trompet Cannonball Adderley on altsax Bill Evans on piano also Wynton Kelly on piano Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums.It brings back memories.
Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released on August 17, 1959, by Columbia Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City on March 2 and April 22, 1959.
I'm driving my bus nr.3 in Reykjavik. Night shift. Magic!!!
Reykjavik is an amazing place to be, especially while listening to Miles.
groovy.
It's gone 3am in Oxford UK and I'm awake, imagining a guy driving a bus round Reykjavik, listening to Miles. Driving must be smooth. Kind of like the start of Taxi Driver, lights outside, red, white, all that vibe. If only I smoked I could go a joint right now . . .
what a beautiful image!!!
Ahh.. the god ol´numba 3. Wait. the night bus? doesnt even go passed Kringlan like usual
When I purchased this album the clerk said, "This album will change your life!". I did not pay much attention to what he said... He then reached across the counter and grabbed my arm and said, "Man, THIS IS GOING TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE!" I will always remember that encounter.
I loled :)))
nice one lol
ha ha ohyea iam having a musical awakeing . i looked for anyone giving this album to the world just to say ohhhhhhh
shit the phrasing ........ it makes ..........shit i dont know ..i cry out , like a thrill throw the spine .
I play guitar born 62 so love Beatles classical but jazz.......no
But this album was 70ish in a music survey so i gave it a listen
It does have structure so the blues did grab me ....but lots of ....... well..... just sounds.... mood evoking .......without me realy knowing why..
and then.............drop the penny....oh my ......the phrasing.......shit!!, ....it forces primordal grunnts (what else can you call it!!!)
Please excuse any spelling grammer whate er but had to get this out.
LISTEN TO THIS ALBUM......................
once a month. If you don't like it .....well at least it stretches out time (feel like you're living longer....).---.
Anyway a big thank you to anyone upping this .And yes , that means YOU!!
Jazz and Blues gave concentrations and joy as student in 80s. I played them in my room when studying or designing and changed to Walkman when in the library. That was another level then.
Right on. He was correct.
Perfetta colonna sonora mentre sto leggendo.. è mezzanotte...un giallo e Miles ...
Grazie
It's Midnight of 15 March 2024 ...Reading a book...touching my cat... smoking....Cool music...TY Miles... Wonderful 😊
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I'm having my morning coffee in Thessaloniki Greece, listening to this masterpiece. Cheers to everybody around the world 😊🌍
I bought this album in about 1970 and 17 years later my eldest son came home from university and said that you gotta listen to this. It was the same album the same cover the same everything. And I’m still listening to it and it is now 2023
been on this album for nearly 40 years...was turned onto it by an older woman and never looked back. Its been a constant feature of my life that never gets old, ever..
Sounds like the introduction was an exiting story that needs to be told!! 😁
morning 8am, sipping my first cup of coffee while looking out the window.
it's monsoon season here in karachi, pakistan.
Your description should have been the video plot.
It's perfect.
Best wishes from England.
why pakistan
Now that gotta give ya da blues...
@@Wakaflockaflexxx Because he lives in Pakistan??
Why not? :D
@Byakuya Ichigo ballin
I am so glad my parents raised me with this music around the house.
You're the lucky one, all I got was socks for Christmas and a clip around the ear.
Bless u man
My dad introduced me to jazz via dave brubeck, I discovered this myself
Me too!
I discovered it all by myself! (and thanks to the internet)
i am 44 and like to listen this since i have 20, when i was a child i loved jazz already
One of the most beautiful albums of all time
so simple and beautiful and accessible
Idk, i will listen it carefully
I'll second that brotha ....peace n love
So What?
@@andrefjbernardo LOL.......
I'm listening this album in my car while I'm smoking a cigarette here in Verona in Italy...wonderfull vibrations.
I've quit smoking cigarettes some months ago ahah but sometimes, an Espresso and an handmade Tuscan cigar is essential while listening jazz music :) I recommend it
Hey...Greetings from Trento, Italy
i feel u...
Verona, next stop... Sardinia...
God bless Italy and the whole world !
Listening to this in Nagoya, Japan, late night... Crazily full moon... ... I can see my feeling as quite international...
RIP, Mr. Jimmy Cobb, last surviving member to May 24 2020
Thanxx Man
Thumbs are shit for this ...R.I.P
Hi I’m from Ethiopia . I’m painting and the part I painted with Miles playing is much more beautiful and much more sophisticated because his music allowed me not to feel stress and pressure pushes me to execute with surgical precision , I find myself being in the band with them all but my part is to be played with colors and brushes . Mr Miles makes it so that I let go of my inhibitions and fears and create freely !true Creation happens in a state of relaxation ! Listen now ! Imagine who miles got inspired by ? The energy of inspiration goes on and on until the end of time . Inspiration never dies go ahead make your inspired art and share it . That’s how we never die and touch the ultimate essence of eternity and Life . Miles lives in my painting and in your every action if you were lucky enough to enhance your life with his music . Brook zerai is the name , my painting will reach you if I let my inspiration go where Miles wants it to Go
Hi ! Any website where your art is visible ?
Such good jazz has come out of Ethiopia.
I'm 56 and I'm hearing this album for the first time.
I love the coolness of it, and I'll buy the CD next time I go shopping.
Wonderful stuff.
Update: I couldn't find Kind Of Blue as a single album, so I bought a three CD five album package for £4.99.
The best fiver I've spent in years.
It includes Porgy and Bess and Sketches Of Spain.
I looked for Gerry Mulligans Night Lights CD but HMV didn't have it, so I'll order it.
I'm glad I've heard this cool jazz to go with all the music I've ever liked.
im 54, love the music.
Its never too late to discover excellent music.I hope you get to enjoy this next 40 years ,so you can grasp the deep emotions I still feel after 4 decades of one of the most important jazz albums ever made.Come to think of what I just said that's baloney , the first time I was blown away it only grows deeper over time.
You got the three best Miles albums for a fiver?! Lucky you!
Why don't you just torrent it?
Portugal. End of the day. Cooking at this wonderful album...
I really gotta thank my parents for raising me with good music, I'm 13 and find this album very enjoyable to listen to.
We had this tape in one restaurant that I used to work at. A side 90 minutes TDK cassette. By The time that we were closing I used to dim The lights and turn The volume just a little bit higher and enjoy IT after a bussy night. That was around, 1997, 1998. Enjoying IT still now days. Miles rules.
TDK saved a lot of lives
I was a police officer with the honolulu police dept......i had ruined my reputation due to drug use and crazy shit i had done off duty.,....i went to bed every day at 7 pm and woke up at 12 midnight and could not go back to sleep due to being so despondent.....at around 4 am i would get in my truck driving around and buy some coffee and donuts listening to this tape every morning before i started work at 6 am....i was as close to suicide as u could get....i quit and moved to the mainland and rebuilt my life....i can now listen to this record again and not feel bad.....it reminds of how lucky i am now.....
I never get tired of listening to this timeless masterpiece.
Jazz at its absolute finest.
It's my weekly therapy :)
Same here....Greetings from Italy
@@Burt472こたつ綱地なタヌタヌいああああやえな地に柄に聞けせしㇲ ァわあはーらま😊
@@誠徳山 Sorry my friend...Don't speak ( I believe it's) Japanese as of yet.....Working on it....Ciao from Trento, Italy
There's nothing to say about this astonishing album that hasn't already been said. In 2020 we need this musical masterpiece more than ever. Stay Safe guy's.
you too
Paul Heptinstall we do mate and such an iconic album.
Nothing safe about this album. Stay free.
@@Kalibhakta108 Absolutely. Stay free!
6am Algiers, my dog is next to me and the sun isn t up yet, coffee and cigarette, the bass is surrounding the living room like a warm hug
I hardly ever comment on you tube. But just finished listening to to it. I can't claim to know anything about music. Never even heard of this guy before. But that was beautiful. It got me deep down inside. Not sure what. Maybe people who know more can tell me. It was a joy. I am going to listen to it again right now.
You listen to music. You like it. It moves you to your soul. You know about music. Don't let the wankers bring you down. ;-)
It's 2 a.m., you're sitting in the dark in your lounge, city lights slanting through half-open venetians, rain pattering against the window and a nice tumbler of whiskey in your fist....this for me is Kind of Blue, this is when to listen to it and feel the worries of the world fall away from you.
Cold & rainy day in Paris listening to Miles Davis is absolutely fabulous!
J'ecoute jazz que j'avais 14 ans. Maintenant j'ai 77 ans et ça c'est superbe.
c'est vrai ?!
+Papy Jacky - Oui, cher monsieur, c'est vraiment vrai. Mon premier 78 tours a été Saint Louis blues, de Armstrong, acheté en 1952 quand j'avais 14 ans. Après j'ai entendu à la V.O.A. le programme de Willis Conover, presque chaque soirée (une fois à 20 h), qui est devenu mon étoile comète pour apprendre et, depuis lors, de Armstrong, Jelly Roll, Beiderbecke, etc., je suis arrivé à Parker, à les quartets de Mulligan et de Brubeck, au MJQ et à beaucoup d'autres. Enfin à le Miles Davis de Bags Groove avec Monk et Milt Jackson, le meilleur Miles Davis. Après ces chefs d'oeuvre, pour moi, c'est impossible écouter Davis. Je pense que pour connaître et comprendre le jazz il faut commencer des origines. Merci.
+Paolo Angioni // Même chose et j'ai 73. Heureusement que ça existe RUclips. :)
"et ça c'est beau" dixit julien lepers
Paolo Angioni en tout cas bravo car utiliser RUclips a ton age ce n'est pas facile
kind of blue...one of the greatest pieces of music of the 20th century..and future centuries
Almost noon, working on my thesis. Beirut, Lebanon.
Thank you Miles and everyone involved in the making of this album : )
“I’m thinking of you more than ever.
It’s raining today and rainy Sundays are horrible for me. When it’s raining I can’t laundry and so I can’t iron my clothes. I can’t take a walk and I can’t lie down on the terrace.
All that’s left for me to do is to endlessly listen to Kind of Blue and watch the rain outside the window.”
“Norwegian forest” - page 264
I feel like it is a gloomy day in New York city but I am sitting down at a high class cafe with an enormous chandelier hanging over my head . I love that this music has the power to transport me, amazing music to listen to while studying or just anytime .
Catherine, after 6 years passed by does the cafe still exist?
@@catwithabeard It most definitely does!
@@cathbiancacampanelli But the chandelier has been replaced by trendy "green" LED lighting strips.
That’s a good question.
Never understood this piece of art like I do right now. There's hope for the world. Happiness is peaking..
Every time I listen to Blue In Green, I feel like I'm back 50 years ago, even if I have never lived during this period...
Released the year I was born. Dad had it so it was probably the first recorded music I heard. I'm still listening 62 years later. Amazing to think how old it is. When it reaches its centenary people will still be listening to it.
that's really cool, man! I do agree, this is reeeeeally good
Heard this album at the age of 3, my dad was quite into this and so was I. Learned to play chess from my dad while listening to the record, learned to appreciate good whisky at a later stage. A life changer indeed😊 After my dad passed away I received the original album, every time I play it it reminds me of the good vibes my dad shared with me! Bought a UHQR version recently and oh man what a joy this turned out to be.
I listen to Kind of Blue every week these days. I’ve been listening to it for nearly 30 years. It might be the finest album in any genre.
Cœur de causse France , rainy morning . Perfect lockdown soundtrack , soothes frayed me
This album is a work of GENIUS....
Absolutely amazing...
Merci à la BNF de nous faire profiter de ces belles œuvres !
Loved this record from the first time I heard it nearly 50 years ago (yes, even I was young once!). Now listening to it in retirement, lazy afternoon with a cup of coffee to hand, and my little lovebirds, one asleep and the other singing away to the high notes. Hip bird!
btw Bird is also one of my favorites ;-)
You don't have to be a jazz nut to appreciate this masterpiece. If you know music then you know this track is so easy and underestimated. But if you really listen you start to understand that the musicality is something special. Something you've never heard before. Then you realise something special was going on here.❤
One of the greatest jazz albums of the 20th century and its timeless beauty will live on forever. The silky smoothness of the wonderful dulcet music is making my lockdown Sunday a very relaxed one and worry free while I sit in my garden with a topped up tall glass and revel in the splendour of Miles Davis. Cheers everyone and stay cool :o)
the bass lines on this album are so sublime
+NewAgeEagles As a bassist, this my favorite album. So What is one of my favorite basslines of all time.
Paul Chambers, you should listen to "Go!" if you like his bass lines.
Paul Chambers was a genius
Listening to this masterpiece and remembering mornings in Paris in my twenties with love💜
💙😘😎🐊
My birth with jazz..almost 18 years ago! Still my favourite! I could sing every solo of every song of this LP! Thank Miles for such a gem!
A genius, a state of the art on trumpet, the more I hear the more I fall in love about his sensitivity on music, no one plays like him!
Imagine hearing this in '59, considering this album blows me away today, 56 years after it's inception.
Urine Denial I did and it was brilliant then and brilliant now - still love 50's jazz
Jack Skull Aphex Twin?
+Sayeedur123 haha i know right!
+Sayeedur123 why wouldn't aphex twin fans be here? Lovers of amazing music
+FutureSoundStation yeah, it's not like Aphex Twin is in league with Lady Gaga and Kanye West now.... I hope he's not anyway....
we live in complex lives but this reminds us that music is the key. my mother said to me,god bless her soul, that without music where would we be.!
And to think that some extremists actually ban music is hard to believe!
“If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it!” - Shakespeare
timeless!!! one of the albums you can listen to 100 years from now,and it will still be awesome
I listened to "Miles Davis's kind of blue" after Autumn Leaves. I learned later that such a great performance. And the performance that does not fade even now. Fresh no matter how many times you listen. It will be an eternal masterpiece.
This album reminds me of the time I was taking a coach trip to Disneyland Paris. I was listening to it on ear buds, it was quite late and other people on the coach were asleep. One of my best friends next to me said, "All I can hear is squeaky trumpet, it's really annoying." Cool story I know...
Now I got my boy, and I'm 33yo,start to listen more JAZZ,it helps me forget reality for a while~
Miles wprawia w błogi stan . Relaksuje i inspiruje. Mogę tego słuchać bez końca.
Kind of Blue. When I have to work and Ive got writers block I put this on and then the flow begins. Always soothes me and makes me creative (usually at my laptop in Honor Oak Park in Lewisham in London)
So what have you written?
_Blog link please_
Listen to this every time I write a paper, absolutely remarkable.
I recently discovered Miles. I started listening to jazz through Horace Silver, Coltrane and Oscar Peterson. Maybe because of his popularity, I Had been avoiding Miles until a musician friend, a jazz drummer From Amsterdam explained to me that Miles was a Romanticist. Something clicked in my head and From that time one I really admire him and my musicality Is boosted by combining jazz and opera and classical Music. Such An elevation and life changing moment when I realized I couldn t live without Music.
Modal jazz just is the best and this album is the best of the best. These guys talk through their instruments, and man what a speech they are giving.
I agree with you.... Coltrane, too..
Sorry for my dumbness but can you explain what modal jazz is? Im new to jazz
In modal jazz the general harmonic structure / framework revolves around scales (or modes) instead of chords. The chords in the background are based on the mode and are almost like an afterthought - the improvised melodies and the chords both revolve and are built open the modes. The difference can be sort of subtle because you can also think that if you define the tune through chords, you can of course define the right scales / modes for each chord as well, but it is a matter of which "comes first conceptually" and "which structure is the defining factor". In modal jazz the chords in the tune can often be quite simplistic and "stay the same" for a long time, leaving room for strong exploration of the mode in question.
Celestial, can you give some names of tunes or albums of modal jazz?
I personally enjoy Maiden Voyage from Herbie Hancock quite a lot, another one to mention of the top of my head would be Coltrane's A Love Supreme
The Jazz and Blues were art of my concentrations as a student in late 70s and 80s. The powers in them took people that understands to another level in their careers. God bless the old school artists which Miles Davis was one of them.
I cant get enough of this album, it adds to my creativity.
I put this record on every morning. It's the best album to start a day. Love it.
Amazing, isn't it?
Sure it is or as Quincy Jones referred too it as like the Bible!
Do you still put this album on every morning? If not - what have you replaced it with?!
This album is so great that it can be considered a cornerstone album not only for jazz but music in general. Every artist should strive to make something this great, something that transcends generations I’m only 34 and my children and their children will know who Miles Davis is. Lastly it goes without saying that Miles would have never pulled this off without the support of the guys he had in his band he only had the greats Cannonball, Coltrane, Evans and company. Jazz was in its golden generation at that time this album was recorded.
Ogni volta che ascolto questo album è come se fosse la prima volta. Grazie miles.
Grandissimo Miles....Come dicono in America.....My Man
Si scrive ‘grazie milles’
Utter brilliance from start to finish. My life has been richer since I found this album. It found me I reckon.
J'écoute pas souvent du Jazz mais j'adore l'ambiance "film noir" qui se dégage de ces chansons. Un plaisir à écouter.
C'est vrai David, especialement Ascenseur pour l''echafaud
This masterpiece is an integral part of my live...usually starting the day with strong coffee...then miles...
Ah, I remember so well when this album made a huge 'hit' on the world of cool modern jazz. Hard to believe it is so long ago.
This was the first LP I bought as a teenager. The simplicity of the melody, the modal changes and all those brilliant contrasting solos in So What. A total master piece.
So What. Big Deal.
I listen to this album and im immediately calm, i feel like a wave of clarity. It's actually crazy how whenever this album calls, I need the most
Everything is so effortless 🥁🎺🎹📯
listening to this album in outer space without a suit, this album gives me oxygen.
Great comment. So true
Yes
60 years old today, and it still sounds as great as the first time I heard this classic jazz album.
Track list:
Side one
01. 00:00:00 - So What
02. 00:09:12 - Freddie Freeloader
03. 00:18:47 - Blue in Green
Side two
01. 00:24:15 - All Blues
02. 00:35:55 - Flamenco Sketches
Personnel (per the liner notes):
Miles Davis - trumpet
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley - alto saxophone (except on "Blue in Green")
John Coltrane - tenor saxophone
Bill Evans - piano (except on "Freddie Freeloader")
Wynton Kelly - piano (on "Freddie Freeloader")
Paul Chambers - double bass
Jimmy Cobb - drums
So beautiful! No one does it quite like miles!
My Man Miles......
脳の緊張がとけて、なんだかいろんなことを思い出させてくれる、、不思議な曲。
心地よい❤
I had an uncle…I knew this, every note, before I left school. Thanks uncle
The perfect album. I could never feel tired of it. Cannonball Alderley expresses so much variety of feeling in his playing
I have never heard of you until today..I liked your name..you look like an artist..I clicked on your profile and was very pleasantly surprised that my instincts were right at the off!
I always get so flabbergasted when a female being expresses pertinent comments and appreciation for anything related to Afro-American music.
Discovered at 18, that first cymbal still resonate in my minds and gives me chills on my skin, what sound they was able to record at that time, and the guy playing nice instead of trying covering the other ones, and the master, Miles !
Jazz is a conversation, not a fight.
It makes me cry....such beauty.
Thank you Miles for getting me through a painful hang over 😆
This album compliments wine drinking and cooking beautifully. This is my go-to when I'm feeling kind of blue.
I would also like to add this is one of my only cross-seasonal albums. Does anyone else have seasonal specific albums?
I find jazz goes best with the fall.
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories for the summer of 2013, and "Fever Ray" - Karin Dreijer Andersson's 2009 album for the winter. I also listen to much more instrumental/electronic/post-rock at night or in the winter.
Hope it helps!
Winter and whiskey album!
Good album for shaving, also. :)
False. I'm listening it while i'm drinking a big strong hoppy beer 😁
discovered this treasure more than a decade ago..
i still wonder how anyone could come up w music like this...
and have it so perfectly executed..
Verry good music i love!!!!! I can listening every DAYS!!!!!Thx you verry much for this lovely music.!!=)
When blue in green enters around 19:00 that just humbled my soul😥
A long hot bath, a snug warm robe and slippers, a cup of black coffee, a large comfortable clean bed, thick comforters, a good pictureless novel, a Do Not Disturb sign, and THIS.
Heaven, become sinful :)
What is a "picture less novel"? and don't say " a novel with no pictures" as you may as well just say " a novel".
When solitude feels precious 💜
Mat Mclean It could be a novel that used to have pictures. But they've all fallen out.
That's some description, you ought to be writing those novels.
Give it a shot sometime, see how you do.
@@euanelliott3613 You must think that all middleschoolers could be good novelists then.
Have a great weekend and nice music my friend.
the modulation used in this record is just superb. He pulls it off flawlessly.
Listening to this through new years eve with all my friends and family away,
makes it so much more managable.
Happy new year, everyone.
Thank you Miles and all the guys for the sheer beauty of it all. There is such consolation and delight in this incredible art, even on the darkest days you lift me,
Lost 1 half of my jazz virginty with this album,other being cannonball adderleys something else!the gods of music purchasing were kind to me that day
Thank you for saying that, I recently got Something Else and guess what I'm gonna be finally listening to the end now :D
Also how i got into jazz. Heard that this was best the jazz album and Somethin Else was its companion piece. Best 1-2 combo of Miles davis and Cannonball.
The most famous musical album of Miles Davis, the Kind of Blue, which was released in 1959 by Columbia Records.
Voted as a National Treasure by the House of Representatives in 2009 for the 50th anniversary.
This was playing when I had breakfast at Lilianfenfels hotel in Australia many years ago. Superb.
Is it just me or there something very lonely about this album? It feels like being completely isolated in a crowded city.
Its the atmosphere that it brings, the players who play here, very emotional and amazing players.
Much like a 1 on 1 conversation you would have with your best friend...
Also its called Kind of Blue... I feel the bluest when im alone and its night time.
I feel like I'm in a club which actually has carpet.
Definitely. Bill Evans on piano conveys this, I think.
All the musicians are on top form for this album.
*****
is it john coltrane playing sax on the first track ?
On all the tracks.
That moment you want more like this, and realize there's nothing else that comes close.
Rain outside, hot bath, a book and Miles davis. Life is good 🤓
AnneLien1987 without (such) music life would be a mistake
LOVE the imagery of this! So comforting
Amen
Rain outside, hot bath, a joint and Miles davis. Life is good
When my mind can't stop, this album helps me very much to calm down.
Track 4... Bluetiful.. Love you Miles! ❤️ Great upload thanks! 👍
The lines in Blue in Green are just so wistful. Reminiscent of a lonely night out on the street up to no good, drinking alone and waiting for the waking light of the morn. Beautiful stuff that I can't get my head around.
Blue in green is my favourite piece out of this album.
Absolutely wonderful album!
Listening to this while working on a psychology project, here in cold and windy La Paz, Bolivia XOXO
Nice! I'm listening while cleaning a boiler in sunny Fredericton, Canada. 🙂👍
Looking at the stars, smelling the fresh air, listening Miles Davis in Sounio Greece.. It’s a pleasure!!!!
What a sublime masterpiece.Miles on trompet Cannonball Adderley on altsax Bill Evans on piano also Wynton Kelly on piano Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums.It brings back memories.
Don’t forget john coltrane
Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released on August 17, 1959, by Columbia Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City on March 2 and April 22, 1959.
The whole album is just beautiful