Kind Of Blue

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The whole has a weightless and haunting quality, sustained by steady, unhurried tempos and a balance of sound that has rarely been equalled in the history of jazz recording. Compare this to the UHQR version and that suddenly sounds a bit odd: the sax is pushed back in the mix which leaves its reverb tail (caught in the bleed to centre channel) sounding distinctly detached in the right loudspeaker. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. The whole is so cohesive, it works supremely, the piano has a stunning presence, the timing and colour of the performance is quite simply stunning, jaw-droppingly so.

Miles Davis' boundlessly influential On the Corner was so far ahead of its time upon release in 1972, the jazz cognoscenti rejected its groundbreaking concoction as middling in nature. I’ve heard vinyl and digital releases of the speed-corrected versions of tape 1/side 1, and I have to say that to my ears they sound a bit slow or ‘tardy’.When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

On the tape none of this occurs, instead I’m left in complete suspension – losing myself completely in the essence of the performance. The album features Davis's ensemble sextet consisting of saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley, pianist Bill Evans, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Jimmy Cobb, with new band pianist Wynton Kelly appearing on one track in place of Evans. I have a vinyl copy in a box somewhere that I’ve owned for over 30 years, and I think I bought it second hand. Like you stated…according to the list it should be a later press but it is misprinted on label and jacket. I have two copies of Miles Davis – Kind of Blues Lp’s but don’t know how old they are, here are the numbers on both Lp’s if anyone can help me date them.

Miles Davis’ trumpet sits centre stage, John Coltrane’s tenor sax is to the left and Julian Adderley’s alto sax is to the right. As Francis Davis points out, and jazz scholars have long noted, at least two numbers (in whole or in part) on Kind of Blue are directly attributable to Evans: his “somber” piano intro to “Flamenco Sketches” (“identical to [Evans’] own ‘Peace Piece,’ which he’d recorded the previous December, together with Leonard Bernstein’s ‘Some Other Time,’ the show tune on whose intervals it was based”); and “Blue in Green” (“which sprang verbatim from his introduction to ‘Alone Together’ on an earlier recording of that standard by Chet Baker”). Kind of Bluealso benefited from Miles’ being signed to the leading major record company of the day — Columbia Records, a part of the CBS media conglomerate.

Columbia/Legacy say they are currently selling around 20,000 a year on vinyl, as part of the “vinyl revival – the record everyone should own”.Each UHQR will be packaged in a deluxe box and will include a booklet detailing the entire process of making a UHQR along with a hand-signed certificate of inspection. Side 2 has the uncorrected listing : 1) flamingo sketches 2) all blues, DG and black and white inner. Kind of Blue' is the now classic studio album by the legendary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, recorded in 1959 at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City.

The aural Mount Rushmore of jazz fusion, Bitches Brew is rightly ranked by virtually every significant press outlet among the 100 greatest albums ever made. In front of these three are the two saxophones: Coltrane’s tenor left and Adderley’s alto right, then of course we have Miles Davis’ trumpet front and centre stage. To create the stereo Kind of Blue release, which was apparently recorded with Telefunken U-49 microphones, the prime three track tape (later discovered to be running 1. It’s been raining, it’s a miserable cold day, so I’ve looked at another 500 KOB auction results, that is a thousand in total. however I’ve since had the good fortune of being slightly re-educated on that position by a number of professional recording engineers whose knowledge of their art is, of course, far greater than mine.After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. The final track on CD Two is a mesmerizing 17-minute live concert version of “So What” (without Adderley, with Kelly), recorded in Holland, April 1960. the depth and weight, the tone and texture, the tunefulness, the attack and decay of every single note. Compared with the audiophile UHQR issue mentioned above they’re further forward and closer to the listener, more like you’re sitting just in front of the stage rather than somewhere further back in the auditorium. The blueprint for melodic improvisation and vamping, Kind of Blue simplifies tonal organization and chordal progression into an eminently beautiful, introspective tapestry stitched with swinging poetry, mellifluous soloing, compositional lyricism, transcendental harmonies, and group interplay of the highest caliber.