Kind of Blue

Miles Davis · 1959

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What it is

Miles Davis's sextet, with John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb, recorded in two sessions with little rehearsal. Instead of fast chord changes, Davis gave the players scales to improvise on, and the five pieces, from "So What" to "Blue in Green", are spacious and calm.

Why it matters

The best-selling and most widely loved jazz album, and the record that put modal jazz at the centre of the music. Its open, unhurried improvising shaped jazz for decades and reached far beyond it, into rock, soul and film.

Listening to it

Length: 46 min.

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Producer or player
Sunday at the Village Vanguard · Bill Evans · 1961
Sunday at the Village Vanguard is by Bill Evans, who appears on Kind of Blue.
Wikipedia, "Kind of Blue" (personnel)
Built on it
The Dark Side of the Moon · Pink Floyd · 1973
Richard Wright said the chord progressions of Kind of Blue shaped the opening chords of "Breathe", from The Dark Side of the Moon.
Wikipedia, "Kind of Blue"

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