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Kind of Blue | 
| Artist: Miles Davis
Label: Camden
Category: Music
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 603
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 88697439232
UPC: 886974392323
EAN: 0886974392323
ASIN: B001O1ADFQ
Release Date: July 27, 2009
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| Tracks:
| • | So What | | • | Freddie Freeloader | | • | Blue In Green | | • | All Blues | | • | Flamenco Sketches | | • | Flamenco Sketches |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 19
 Its, a blue world and all the better for it . September 7, 2009
russell clarke (halifax, west yorks)
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
Confession time .I used to watch the "Jazz Club " sketch in The Fast Show : Ultimate Collection (7 Disc BBC Box Set) [DVD] and laugh not so much like a drain but like an entire sewer system. You see the sketch was confirming what I ,d felt all along about jazz -that this was a haven for pretentious , head nodding pseudo cool types. Jazz I thought was music for people who don't actually like music at all. The thing is though I used to think something similar about reggae and I love reggae now. The trick you see is to jettison your presumptions, predispositions assumptions what ever you want to call them and start listening .
Which brings me to Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis. Now I have long been aware that this is an album held in extremely high regard but it's a jazz album so I wasn't interested. Then I got thinking about my reggae conversion , and my previous conversion to rap ( mainly brought about by listening to Public Enemy ) and I also thought about how much I like swing & jive which has jazz elements to it ( jazz purists please cease frothing at the mouth ) I also thought about how much I liked Melody Gardots recent album and that has definite jazz elements and a mate whose opinion I trust told me how much he liked Kind Of Blue so i thought I ,d take the plunge.
Guess what ? ....Well it's a bit of a stupid question because you've seen the five yellow stars at the top of the review but I absolutely love Kind Of Blue. It has an ambience , atmosphere a tone and timbre I often look for in music .The sort of thing I often find in obscure pieces of ambient music , or experimental post rock or even filtering into more song based music like The Blue Nile or David Sylvian. There is a melancholy that has nothing to do with feeling maudlin or wallowing in misery .It is a kind of blue but it speaks of something else ,something alive and hopeful and yes ..something cool.
Anyone looking for a erudite critique of Miles Davis music or an empirical placing of his influence both within the confines of jazz or the more expansive umbrella of music will not find it in this review. I could have added a bit of potted history of the album which is something I would normally do but that really is not the purpose of this review either . I am here dear reader to state that even if, like me you would normally rather let ants nest in your ears rather than listen to jazz to put aside your prejudice and give this album a listen. It,s terrific , it really is. It may also lead you to question your long held ( in my case certainly ) jazz aversion .
And now on the back of this revelation i intend to investigate further . I have already bought Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet and A Love Supreme [Deluxe Edition] and Mingus Ah Um are on my shopping list. Any other recommendations would also be welcome .Those ants will have to move out.... there is more jazz on the way . Still think "Jazz Club" is bloody funny though.
Not just for jazz fans... November 25, 2009
A. Horne (London)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Interestingly, this album was voted as the best album in the world by the Zagat guide. Yes that's right, not just the best jazz album in the world, but the best album full stop... While I'm not sure I would go that far, it's certainly very good and well worth buying at the current price.
forgotten how great this is September 29, 2009
Malcolm Keeling
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I purchased this C D to replace a cassette I had back in the 80s, so you could argue that I'm hearing it for the first. I am not disappointed, a great and historical piece of music in any genre. An must for everyones music collection.
Kind of Blue September 21, 2009
Michael Field (Somewhere in England)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Rightly described as a seminal album. just leave it playing constantly in the car - what else can you say?
Not blue with Kind of Blue January 28, 2010
Blue6string (Salisbury, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have lost count of the occasions and places where I have seen reference to this album, but wherever it has been mentioned, there has been an air of reverence and awe about it that has intrigued me. Now I know why it is written about in such appreciative terms; an incredible piece of recording of some incredible playing. Truly magical. If you appreciate music, really appreciate music and have no particularly strong bias or prejudice, then this album really should be in your collection.
It is uber cool, and stands the test of time in a way that so few of today's recordings are likely to be able to do in 50 year's time. In a word, timeless.
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