Sort by TalkLeft (Free subscription) - 06/06/2009 - YouTube
The 50th Anniversary of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is a very historic event. Legacy Recordings is releasing a Collector's Edition Box set on September ...
Sort by TalkLeft (Free subscription) - 06/06/2009
The eagle flies on a Friday - or so BB King sang , but I'm feeling Kind of Blue: But So what? It's your turn. This is an Open Thread.
Sort by The Smoking Section (Free subscription) - 08/19/2009
Monday marked the release of one of the greatest (yes superlative) albums of all-time. Miles Davis’ Kind Of Blue turned 50. I was looking back for old posts & I realized that my love for Miles & this album go way back, as far as TSS goes. While you may think that Hip-Hop paved the [...]
Sort by IPE at UNC (Free subscription) - 08/17/2009
This has nothing at all to do with IPE, but today marks the 50th birthday of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue . It is the best-selling jazz album of all time, and (like many people) the first one I owned. I'm not sure it's my favorite jazz album, but it was a gateway drug for me: it led me to ingest more and more jazz in greater and greater quantities. You can trace the past and future of jazz through that...
Sort by Between Two Worlds (Free subscription) - 08/17/2009
50 years ago today Columbia Records released Miles Davis's album, Kind of Blue . This is probably the greatest album of America's greatest musical invention. As Herbie Hancock says in the mini-documentary below: Here's a record that I could recommend to anyone --from any country, of any age. If you want to hear the spirit of jazz, listen to Kind of Blue. And here's the first part of a BBC documentary...
Sort by Steam Powered Opinions (Free subscription) - 08/18/2009
Today is the 50th Anniverary of the release of the greatest album of all time
Sort by Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (Free subscription) - 05/02/2009
The Jazz Tent can be a lonely place (however crowded) when most of your friends are off shaking it at Dr. John or Zachary Richard. If Mrs. Toulouse were coming she would come sit with me most of the afternoon, but I’m solo today. That will not, in the end, keep my away from the [...]
Sort by Presentation Zen (Free subscription) - 12/31/2008
There is a line of thinking that says if I tell you the meaning of the word Zen, then it wouldn't really be Zen. The same could be said concerning the meaning of Jazz as well. "What is Jazz?" in...
Sort by A Writer's Desk (Free subscription) - 08/25/2009
Richard Williams, the author of a heartfelt study of Miles Davis's classic album Kind of Blue , which turns 50 this year, tells Claire Armitstead about the impact the record had on him, and on the history of music.
Sort by The Wooden Spoon (Free subscription) - 08/17/2009
Miles Davis' milestone album Kind of Blue turns 50 today, and Fred Kaplan has a great explanation of why the album is so beloved, so important, and so unbearably great. 'Miles Davis' Kind of Blue , which was released 50 years ago today, is a nearly unique thing in music or any other creative realm: a huge hit — the best-selling jazz album of all time — and the spearhead of an artistic revolution. Everyone,...
Sort by Notes from the East Side (Free subscription) - 08/19/2009
Kind of Blue was released 50 years ago this week, an album that the terms "influential," "landmark," and "timeless" have all become synonymous with. I popped it in for a long-overdue listen last night, and unsurprisingly, my perception of it has still not changed. It's like a perfectly carved rock etched in time, and will continue to be for thousands of years.
Sort by HicktownPress (Free subscription) - 10/07/2009
There are certain things I wish I knew more about. Jazz is one of them. When I do listen to jazz, it has a calming effect on me. I read online today that an important milestone in jazz history is upon us. It’s the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’ masterpiece album, Kind of Blue. Again, [...]
Sort by Arctic Ghetto (Free subscription) - 08/25/2009
Where "formal" means you have to wear a shirt.
Sort by the magic lantern (Free subscription) - 10/06/2009
Turns 50 today. For some reason, in popular culture, "cool" is equated with purchasing a pair of sunglasses and then wearing them. If it were possible to become somehow cooler by buying something, that something is the album Kind of Blue. Need I say this is by Miles Davis and features, amongst others, a young John Coltrane on Saxaphone and Bill Evans on piano? If anyone ever wanted to float the concept...
