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Disc 1
- So What
- Freddie Freeloader
- Blue In Green
- All Blues
- Flamenco Sketches
- Flamenco Sketches
- Freddie Freeloader
- Freddie Freeloader
- Freddie Freeloader
- So What
- So What
- Blue In Green
- Flamenco Sketches
- Flamenco Sketches
- All Blues
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Kind of Blue [Legacy Ed]
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Product Details
| Release Date: | 01/20/2009 |
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| Label: | Sony Legacy |
| UPC: | 0886972710525 |
| catalogNumber: | 727105 |
| Rank: | 6006 |
Customer Reviews
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Kind of Blue [Columbia Jazz Masterpieces]
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while this is one of the quitessential jazz albums of all time, it is also a perfect introduction to jazz for the unititiated.
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This album is a legendary muse of history in its own right! Before I decided to buy this album, I have read the book, The Making of Kind of Blue, and read many reviews from critics, and even asked for some opionions about it to family and friends. The results of such a great, profounding explosion inspired me to buy this album. The first moment i heard it, the music became the painter and my mind became the canvas. Many pictures of night lights, bright stars, starry eyed couples, lonely, sad people, nature, and majestic, somewhat peaceful, quiet, and melancholy places started performing in my mind! This album truly has a voice that's louder than the sights of all the world! It truly has something, not just extraordinary people, such as the famous John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and of course the eat-your-heart-out-choir-music passionate Miles Davis. It's simply the wonder, the power, and the calling muse of the miseries, the pain, the majesty, the thought, the heaven, and the glory of it all, which makes it definitive, an art for all jazz mankind. No album in the world could grow as beautiful as this piece of heaven coming from a horn so sweet.
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Miles Davis is one of the giants of 20th century American popular music and when you read any critical overview if his career, Kind of Blue is always mentioned. Critics claim the LP changed the direction of jazz. I don't know enough about jazz to argue the point, but this is a towering album. I do have a lot of 70s fusion Miles, but what I have heard of the late 60s quintet on YouTube left me bemused. Kind of Blue is different. It is completely accessible to anyone willing to listen. The music is quiet and time almost seems to stop, yet there seems to be something constantly happening. Many probably pay the most attention to the horns of Davis, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane. What I noticed was the piano playing, most of it by Bill Evans. I plan to soon purchase what is almost unanimously considered the other Davis pre-electric classic, Sketches of Spain.
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I was having a hard time trying to think of all the wonderful things to say about this amazing classic album, and I suddenly realised how easy it was... The editorial review says that ''Kind of Blue'' has been called the greatest jazz album of all time so often that it's hard to believe it. It's perfectly simple; all you have to do is listen to it. You'll believe it -- because it's true.
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Well, not that it hasn't been said already, but this is quite easily one of, if not the most, meaningful jazz albums ever made. Each chart is highly accessible, making this album perfect for someone who wants an introduction to jazz; furthermore, every member of Miles' group is a jazz superstar in his own right. "So What" often gets the most attention, but my favorite chart (of all time, perhaps) is "All Blues". Miles really knows how to create an ambience, and the solos are beautiful. Enjoy what drummer Jimmy Cobb calls an album "made in heaven".
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This is by far, not only the greatest Miles Davis album... but the greatest jazz album ever made. Miles Davis' smokey, yet sexy, trumpet playing is at it's peak in every chart on the album... from the mild-paced "Freddie Freeloader" to the slow, and my personal favorite, "Blue In Green." This album, itself, revolutionized jazz from the begining... This is a must have!
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I do not really understand the musical concepts behind this album (tonalities vs scales, etc). All I understand is that I can put this CD in my player, press repeat, and let it play for hours and I still never tire of this music. Miles, Coltrane, and Adderly take turns with blistering solos, almost as if it is a duel! Each soloist throws down the gauntlet for the next and the challenge is met each time. This is an album for all time. There is only one bonus track because this is the only one that was finished during those sessions. The remastering is an incredible leap over the original CD release with recording speeds corrected on side 1 and adding a great deal of initimacy and warmth. Do yourself a favor and buy this one if you haven't already.
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Just plan hard to beat
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Absolutely wonderful
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This is probably the most overrated Miles Davis album, but I do love it. Miles and his band play the songs by ear and the music is really relaxing. ''So What'' is indeed one of his best songs ever. ''All Blues'' is a cool blues number. One thing I like about the reissue is that when the album was originally released, it was taped slowly so it had a sharper pitch. But on this reissue, they speed the tapes up so you can hear the actual sound of the music when it was recorded. I really like jazz and this is one of my desert island discs.
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Whoever out there thinks that Miles Davis is just an electronica nutjob drughead must not have ever laid eyes (or ears) on ''Kind of Blue''. This is some of the best jazz that I have ever heard.
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i like this music from start to finish you cant get much better than this one...
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This music connects me with my beginnings, my heritage.
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This is the modal masterpiece; Miles,Trane Cannonball!!!!!
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This album is a classic, and is very beautiful in so many ways! THis is the #1 jazz album of all time...and its easy to see why. I find myself listening to this record over and over..timeless masterpiece...if you don't own this album...your really missing out on a classic!
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I just brought home the SACD version of this lovely thing, and cannot believe the lifelike sound quality that was captured during the 1959 recording sessions. Truly amazing and actually puts many records since its time to shame, simply talking recording fidelity here. The actual art contained here, having not heard it before and purchased on the recommendation from an online review, has me floored and excited to spend much, much quality time with Miles and friends. I'm sure this disc is going to be spinning alot for a long time to come. If you haven't given this a chance yet, you are truly missing a big chance to be very, very impressed with something. This is one of the very few purchases I've made that have actually exceeded my expectations.
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This was one of the first jazz cd's I ever bought and I never get tired of listening to it. Certainly one of the greatest jazz albums ever, performed by an all-star line up of artists. The only problem a beginner to jazz might have buying this is pretty much anything collected after this will seem a bit lame.
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I could listen to this album over and over again. Every track is fantastic and showcases Miles' mastery of the horn. 100 years from now people will be in awe.
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I know little but I know that this is ... something else! Welcome to Scotland - not yet free - but GLORY we will be soon ( there's one one distance MILES - that's the road and the Miles .....)
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I bought this album in that year 1959. I was a Junior in high school. Most of the Jazz set on campus obtained this record. My music teacher, after allowing me to play it during Music Appreciation and hearing it asked me if he could borrow it overnight. He returned it the next morning and told everone in the classroom to purchase this record by Miles Davis and put it in their home library even if they were not into Jazz like he and I were. I certainly appreciate the new CD sound. It was often a common site to see other students carrying this record along with their books a year later '60.
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To many people this is the quintessential jazz recording. I cant argue. Every time I listen to it I find something new and interesting within the performances. Everyone else has said what needs to be said about this album. For those who don't get it...take some time out of your day, turn off the lights, and just listen to the album.
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I have been a lover of Jazz since childhood. This is my favorite recording. Miles Davis and John Coltrane just compliment each other so well. You can drift with the music and get lost. This is a must for any jazz lover. Yet, it is a great place to start if you are trying to sample the genre for the first time.
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I always hated jazz, then my brother sent me this album and said 'give it a chance.' The more I listen to it, the more it grows on me. This is simply amazing music. If I had to sum it up in one word: 'mellow.'
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