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Kind of Blue is a studio album by the American jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis.It was released on August 17, 1959, by Columbia Records.For the recording, Davis led a sextet featuring saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, pianist Bill Evans, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Jimmy Cobb, with new band pianist Wynton Kelly replacing Evans on one track, "Freddie ...
"All Blues" is a jazz composition by Miles Davis first appearing on the influential 1959 album Kind of Blue. It is a twelve-bar blues in 6 8; the chord sequence is that of a basic blues and made up entirely of seventh chords, with a ♭ VI in the turnaround instead of just the usual V chord.
The westernmost part of 77th Street in New York City has been named Miles Davis Way. He once lived on the block. On November 5, 2009, U.S. Representative John Conyers of Michigan sponsored a measure in the United States House of Representatives to commemorate Kind of Blue on its 50th anniversary.
Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue is a 2004 DVD presenting footage of Miles Davis' performance at the British Isle of Wight Festival on August 29, 1970. The film presents interview clips from a range of those involved, including Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Airto Moreira, and musicians who were in Davis' musical orbit at the time such as Carlos Santana.
Jimmy Cobb, a percussionist and the last surviving member of Miles Davis’ 1959 “Kind of Blue” groundbreaking jazz album which transformed the genre and sparked several careers, died Sunday.
"Freddie Freeloader" is a composition by Miles Davis and is the second track on his 1959 album Kind of Blue. The piece takes the form of a twelve-bar blues in B ♭, but the chord over the final two bars of each chorus is an A ♭ 7, not the traditional B ♭ 7 followed by either F7 for a turnaround or some variation of B ♭ 7 for an ending.
"So What" is the first track on the 1959 album Kind of Blue by American trumpeter Miles Davis. It is one of the best-known examples of modal jazz, set in the Dorian mode and consisting of 16 bars of D Dorian, followed by eight bars of E ♭ Dorian and another eight of D Dorian. [1]
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