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Kind of Blue
Miles Davis Quintet
(Columbia, 1959)
... music to live by ...
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New rhythms – New tones – More with less – All are trademarks of the 1959 sessions that created this album.
Add to Miles Davis’ gifted trumpet the power of John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, and Bill Evans – and you have a music of perfection. For me, the finest musical moment ever recorded. Huge influence on my writing.
Here’s a site posting a transcription of the sessions... Amazing dialogue.
2 comments:
This is the album that swayed my son at age 10 to play trumpet (and play it well). I think it's the greatest session I've heard.
My son can exhale for 72 seconds. He has some chops, I'm telling you.
That's a wonderful story, Pamela. And you won't get an argument from me on the session's greatness. An unbelievable recording.
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