Customer Reviews

Kind of Blue

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Everybody who has any respect for jazz at all should have this album. It is like a little slice of heaven. Coltrane and Cannonball are in top form; Cannonball is his usual energetic self, inventing contours within the minimalistic chord changes, and Coltrane is in modified Giant Steps mode, tearing through thick sheets of sound and offering a contrasting view to the more work he was doing on his own, which had so much underlying complexity. Many say that Bill Evans did his best playing with this group (or maybe that was just Miles...) and the rhythm section as a whole provides a perfect and quite evocative backdrop for Miles' understated elegance. But for all jazz fans' raving about this CD, many people buy it and are diappointed because of how chill it is. I was disappointed because I thought Miles wasn't doing anything, but the simply beauty and perfect delicacy of his spontaneous melodies are the main selling point of this album.

until now, jazz fans have had to suffer
the inferior audio mix and post-production
that characterized the CD version. one of
the finest works in jazz is finally presented
with the audio engineering it deserves.

This is a really extraordinary Miles Davis album. I started listening to him a few years back and I bought "Kind of Blue" recently. It is one of the best Miles Davis albums out there. I couldn't tell you which track I liked the most because they're all equally good. It's a really great album.