Columbia publish Miles Davis’ ‘Kind of Blue’ recorded with, on some tracks, John Coltrane & Bill Evans (1959)

Miles Davis‘ ‘Kind of Blue’ is a studio album recorded on March 2 and April 22, 1959 with on some tracks John Coltrane & Bill Evans and released on August 17, 1959 by Columbia

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1 . So What (Official Video)

2 . So What (The Robert Herridge Theater, New York, April 2, 1959)

3 . All Blues (1964, Milan, Italy)

4 . All Blues

Miles Davis – Kind of Blue


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Track listing 1.So What (Miles Davis) – 9:22 . 2.Freddie Freeloader (Miles Davis) – 9:46 . 3.Blue in Green (Miles Davis and Bill Evans) – 5:37 . 4.All Blues (Miles Davis) – 11:33 . 5.Flamenco Sketches (Miles Davis and Bill Evans) – 9:26 . 6.Flamenco Sketches (Alternate take) (Miles Davis and Bill Evans) – 9:32 .


Jay Maisel

Musicians : Miles Davis – trumpet, band leader . Julian “”Cannonball”” Adderley – alto saxophone, except on (3) . Paul Chambers – double bass . Jimmy Cobb – drums . John Coltrane – tenor saxophone . Bill Evans – piano, except on (2) . Wynton Kelly – piano on (2) .

Production Produced by Teo Macero . Fred Plaut – recording engineering . Irving Townsend – production .

Packaging : Don Hunstein – photography . Jay Maisel asterisques RVM – cover photo . Nat Hentoff – liner notes . Bill Evans – liner notes .

Recorded March 2 and April 22, 1959 at 30th Street Studio, New York City, New York (USA) .

Released on August 17, 1959, by Columbia Records.

(Source Miles Davis‘ ‘Kind of Blue’ | Official Site)

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The Guardian
How Miles Davis‘s Kind of Blue shaped 50 years of music I didn’t hear Kind of Blue for another six years after its original release, but when I did it was obvious that this was a jazz record different from anything I’d heard before, including the wayward leanings of Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk. A significant indicator was that it appealed to people who weren’t even jazz fans. […]

Slate
Why the best-selling jazz album of all time is so great. Kind of Blue is a one-shot deal, so dreamily perfect you can hardly believe someone created it. Which is why it remains so deeply satisfying, on whatever level you experience it, as moody background music or as the center of your existence. Listen to it 100 times or soand you still marvel at its spontaneous inventions; now and then, you’ll even hear something new. […]

Rolling Stone
Ranked number 12 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. As the late critic Robert Palmer wrote, “Kind of Blue is, in a sense, all melody – and atmosphere.” The bass line in “So What” is now among the most familiar obbligatos in jazzand there is no finer evocation of the late-night wonder of jazz than the muted horns in “All Blues.” […]

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