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Kind of Blue

Kind of Blue

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Which album stands the test of time better than this one?

Rating: 5/5

The sound of this album is just incredible! I don't know how anyone can actually believe that over 50 years ago this album was recorded. This album was produced incredibly well to say the least. Such a great line-up and easily my favorite Miles Davis era. This album was years ahead of it's time.

Really Can't Be Put Into Words

Rating: 5/5

For those of us in this "special club" of not only having a great ear for music but also obtaining an unwielding passion for pretty sounds, we probally all agree that this may be the best of them all. In an accelerated world of constant innovation and a need for immediate gratification, it's nice to slow down a bit and reflect. No matter if you are madly in love or fresh off of an epic heartbreak, this is an album you can melt into your environment and have these euphoric sounds transcend you into bliss.

Add all of this banter to the fact that the bulk of this album was drawn up right before the recording sessions and done on a first take, this was a great moment in music history.

Enjoy and share this wonderful album with all of those around you...

Miles' best

Rating: 5/5

I thought Sketches was his best until I heard Kind of Blue.
The remastered version is a Godsend
An absolute masterpiece.

I guess you can call me a jazz convert now.

Rating: 5/5

I have never liked jazz. I have always found it too off-putting in its improvisional nature; I figured, "This stuff is for professional musicians." But I've tried. I've listened to Brubeck, Mann, Getz, and Return to Forever in an attempt to say "I like jazz," but just couldn't bring myself to tell that to anyone honestly.

Until I heard "Kind of Blue." I found it at a yard sale for fifty cents (!), thought "Oh, why not?" and bought it. I have been listening to it obsessively ever since. What it is about this music? It is *very* persuasive.

Best jazz music I have ever heard. I love it!

A Classical Music Person Weighs In

Rating: 5/5

I've been listening to, studying and basically "living" classical music for over 30 years. Recently I woke up and in a fit of insanity decided to purchase "Kind of Blue", having read that it's the greatest Jazz recording of all time. Jazz, of course, is nothing but aleatoric bombast; brain candy; pure junk, right? But I decided to give it a try anyway.

Great stuff. It took me a few times to get into it, but I can definitely see what all the fuss is about. The use and development of modal harmony is simply thrilling, and gives the music the same sort of edge that one finds in contemporary classical music spiced with tangy dissonance. What the musicians do with that modal underpinning is awe-inspiring; it sounds like every note is perfect.

My advice to "jazz newcomers" like myself is this: Listen to the CD a couple of times without being overly analytical. Just go with it. Then, listen again and really pay close attention to the harmony. Listen to those chords move and modulate. It's repetitive,yes; but what goes on above the harmony makes it thrilling.

I'm sold.