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Poll Question: Which piece do you like best?
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22 [48.89%]
3 [6.67%]
9 [20.00%]
7 [15.56%]
4 [8.89%]
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    Posted: November 11 2009 at 10:34
I was listening to this Miles Davis album last night and this morning, so I thought I'd make a poll and see which piece people like the best.
https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays
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It's hard to vote without a "I love them all" option.

I guess I'll have to listen to Kind of Awesome Blue again to help decide.
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Absolutely essential album, belongs in every record collection of anyone who cares about music deeper than "It's got a beat and I can dance to it."
 
I picked All Blues because I spent so much time learning to play guitar along to that song, but it's all great.
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Almost impossible, but I love the way that So What sets the tone for the whole album, and especially the dialogue between the bass, piano and drums, so I'll vote for that.
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All the album is great. Voted for All Blues
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I've voted for Flamenco Sketches, it influenced my guitar playing.
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Points: 35803 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2009 at 11:04
I'll go with "Blue in Green".
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So what...
There's no song that makes me feel calmer and cozier than that!
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Points: 1698 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2009 at 11:36
So what. The intro is simply excellent, slowly building in dynamics until that first cymbal crash, and then it just gets going.

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I go with "So What"--Bill Evans is my favorite pianist of all time, and his contribution to this album is sadly underappreciated.
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Can't decide. I've been listening to the album quite a lot lately, but it's still too early to say. Could be So What, could be Flamenco Sketches, could be something from between...
It's on PA!
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Great album overall, no pick for me.  If you could pick out one album and say this is what jazz is all about, I'd go for this one.  I've probably heard every track played at the Piedmont Park Jazz Festival in Atlanta at one time or the other.  Fond memories of the late '70's/early '80's... Big smile


Edited by Slartibartfast - November 11 2009 at 15:08
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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So What is my choice, I remember the first time I heard it and realized it was one of the most relaxing things I'd ever listened to.  Plus I love the intro. 
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''So What'' is an absolute Jazz masterpiece. 
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Points: 4900 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2009 at 12:38
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Freddie Freeloader


You mean the song that starts out almost exactly like ''So What''?

Meh . . .
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It's one of the most even albums out there. I tend to like So What a lot because of its opening, and maybe also because it's the first true jazz song I ever heard.
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Points: 6467 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2009 at 13:22
I suppose an "All of the above" option would be redundant.  I voted Blue in Green.
The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Points: 708 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2009 at 15:05
I love them all in this order:

Flamenco Sketches
So What
Blue In Green
All Blues
Freddie Freeloader

It's really a perfect album.
"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent" - Victor Hugo
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Points: 2078 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 11 2009 at 15:10
The one with the Bass in D dorian



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