Kind of Blue
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Topic: Kind of Blue
Posted By: Epignosis
Subject: Kind of Blue
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 10:34
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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.
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 10:38
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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 |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 10:45
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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. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 10:47
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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. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 10:50
| All the album is great. Voted for All Blues |
Posted By: friso
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 10:50
| I've voted for Flamenco Sketches, it influenced my guitar playing. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 11:04
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I'll go with "Blue in Green".
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 11:11
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So what... There's no song that makes me feel calmer and cozier than that! |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 11:36
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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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Posted By: Todd
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 12:03
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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. ------------- "I have seen the broken sky turn blue." http://gnosis2000.net/ratertodd.shtml" rel="nofollow - My Gnosis Ratings |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 12:08
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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... ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 12:10
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...  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 12:34
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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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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 12:36
| ''So What'' is an absolute Jazz masterpiece. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 12:37
| Freddie Freeloader |
Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 12:38
You mean the song that starts out almost exactly like ''So What''? Meh . . . |
chopper wrote:Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 12:59
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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. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 13:22
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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" |
Posted By: Anderson III
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 15:05
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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 |
Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 15:10
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The one with the Bass in D dorian
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Posted By: Scoppioingola
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 16:46
| Brilliant album, love it all, but my favorite number got to be Blue in Green. |
Posted By: Ommadawn
Date Posted: November 11 2009 at 20:33
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Best Jazz album ever!!!
Flamenco Sketches for me
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: November 12 2009 at 14:26
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So What for me. |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: November 12 2009 at 14:31
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I'll go with the majority with my vote for So What. ------------- 
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Posted By: Tin Of Hurri Curri
Date Posted: December 03 2009 at 20:24
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The entire album is excellent. For the sake of voting, I chose "Freddie Freeloader." |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: December 03 2009 at 20:27
| I was just listening to this today. I might go with Blue in Green because I found it amazing this listening. |
Posted By: halabalushindigus
Date Posted: December 04 2009 at 01:26
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I like the way Miles gave the bandmates 16 or 32 bars for improve, but didn't rehearse first
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Posted By: halabalushindigus
Date Posted: February 25 2010 at 03:52
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remember how Lennon said the beatles music was like a chair or the blues was like a chair.
"kind of blue" is like a chair with no legs. And then what have you got?
. You've got what you've got (seriously, forgive the grammer)
and Them that has...GETS!!!
there is no rehearsing and that myfriends is a first. Good Moneys worth DMiles that what the executive says. Poor brother in a time and place like 60's america and to be BLACK?
Let's just make some kind of jazz money off 'em. I actually hate what executives did for the brother back then. Selling millions then making him play backup to whiteboy bob
here's to sly and the F stone
lou rawls
marvin the lost man
al jarreau
raycharles
johnny rivers
sidney portier
and to you, Sammy
If youv'e never heard straight jazz. with fundamental structure don't be blue..
Sharp Clean Straight
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Posted By: halabalushindigus
Date Posted: February 25 2010 at 03:57
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dont want to forget the awesome man of men Harry Belafonte ------------- assume the power 1586/14.3 |
Posted By: b4usleep
Date Posted: February 25 2010 at 07:58
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All Blues for me
------------- Really don't mind if you sit this one out. My words but a whisper, your deafness a shout. |
Posted By: Fieldofsorrow
Date Posted: February 25 2010 at 14:41
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My teacher made me learn the piano solo to 'Freddie Freeloader' recently - a great one, indeed. However, I'll be boring and vote 'So What'. I recommend it highly for practising modal improvisation too - lots of possibilities. ------------- Groovy teenage rock with mild prog tendencies: http://www.myspace.com/omniabsenceband |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: February 25 2010 at 16:10
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Prog poll ? I always thought it's a jazz album, maybe I'm wrong ? ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |