Kind of Blue | 
 enlarge | Artist: Miles Davis
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  687 reviews
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 64935
UPC: 074646493526
EAN: 0074646493526
Release Date: March 25, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | So What | | • | Freddie Freeloader | | • | Blue in Green | | • | All Blues | | • | Flamenco Sketches | | • | Flamenco Sketches |
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Amazon.com essential recording
This is the one jazz record owned by people who don't listen to jazz, and with good reason. The band itself is extraordinary (proof of Miles Davis's masterful casting skills, if not of God's existence), listing John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley on saxophones, Bill Evans (or, on "Freddie Freeloader," Wynton Kelly) on piano, and the crack rhythm unit of Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums. Coltrane's astringency on tenor is counterpoised to Adderley's funky self on alto, with Davis moderating between them as Bill Evans conjures up a still lake of sound on which they walk. Meanwhile, the rhythm partnership of Cobb and Chambers is prepared to click off time until eternity. It was the key recording of what became modal jazz, a music free of the fixed harmonies and forms of pop songs. In Davis's men's hands it was a weightless music, but one that refused to fade into the background. In retrospect every note seems perfect, and each piece moves inexorably towards its destiny. --John Szwed
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Kind of blue November 29, 2008
Martha Jane Fenn (Brattleboro, Vermont)
I accidentally? ordered the wrong form of the CD, corresponded with Amazon, got prompt and detailed reply, exchanged the item with no trouble.
The definition of perfection November 24, 2008
David (Tucson AZ USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you haven't heard Kind of Blue yet, well, what are you waiting for? Whether you're big into jazz or not, this is an absolutely timeless, flawless album. Every moment is to be savoured. The moods and feelings conveyed here by the music are plentiful and impossible to put into words. Just put this one on and get lost in it, the feel of it. I never get tired of this record.
I'd take it on a desert island November 22, 2008
Mr. Arnaud Bachelier (Lost)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Owned this labum for more than 10 years, I love Coltrane (not all), I love Miles (not all), and many others (I recommend Abdullah Ibrahim), but this one is the quintessence, the one I ALWAYS go back to. I just don't grow weary. If I were to take one album on desert island, that would be Kind of Blue.
One of the best by Miles Davis November 17, 2008
Anne Simone (Cambridge, MA)
It's hard to pick a best of Miles, but this is definitely one of them
Truely jazz's greates masterpiece November 3, 2008
Eric Peterson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Miles Daves sets the stage for cool jazz with this masterpiece. It is truely timeless and as relivent today as ever.
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