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Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
- Miles Davis bands a two disc set of tracks together with his streamlining horn on Kind of Blue. From one of the most talented jazz musicians ever, he doesn’t disappoint as he delivers a jazz record that could be owned by people who don’t even listen to jazz. When he puts his lips to the trumpet, it’s a match made in heaven because the music that flows out is so fluid and becomes a model for what jazz should be. These tracks provide servitude to the king of cool as fixed, melodic harmonies dance in front of us like a shimmering poof of smoke upward.
Kind of Blue is a legendary series of tracks that is calmly understated as it may reside in the shadowed backdrop until the bumping horn brings it forth into the light. Miles Davis continues to demonstrate mesmerizing horn playing and tracks that are so rich and flavorful. The whole album works together as one cohesive unit composed of these tracks that flow into one another, making for one tremendously hypnotic, aural experience. Miles Davis struts his soul by sharing his sacred gift with us.
Jazz like this serves as a blueprint or framework that others will use as guidance. This trend setting compilation will be a mega classic that eternally shines. There’s such a cerebral style to Davis’s work and this brilliant innovator puts scaling improvising together that just rises and falls like an oscillating, winding gust. Miles Davis unleashes a flurry of music from a high level above that it just swoops down and picks us up.
Reviewer: John Berkowitz
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Reviewer's Rating: 8.5
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Added: 15-Oct-2008
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