A great review taken from an Itunes customer about Miles Davis Kind of blue, the well know jazz masterpiece.
Jazz is many things to many people
There are so many artistic and musical movements withing jazz: acid, fusions, swing, bop, free-bop, post-bop, dixieland, cool, modal, free iazz, avante-garde.
The personalities involved in jazz range from masters like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington and Ornette Coleman and Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and hundred more that should be mentioned.
Armstrong and Davis may have made jazz into an art form and Parker
may have opened up the way for Miles, but all that said; "Kind of Blue" is the most important jazz album ever made. It cannot be denied.
Davis may not have played high like Gillespie or Roy Eldridge but he had a wonderful, economic and precise playing in the middle register of his trumpet and with his harmon mute, he made music that still rings true in our soul to this day. His genius as a composer also cannot be questioned, nor can his ability as a band leader. He brought into the studio the greatest small jazz combo ever. Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb were the best of the best.
This is music. As important as Mozart or Stravinsky.
Nothing was the same after this
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