Kind Of Blue (Remst)

After 100s of listenings of the first track "So What", I've memorized every note played by Miles, John and Cannonball. I also play alto sax and can play the solos with it.

Over 200 jazz albums later, and many of them by Miles, I still consider 'Kind of Blue' my all-time favorite.


This album is the jazz's quintessential !   July 16, 2004
Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This album is incredible , amazing . It doesn't happen very often one recording reachs so cosmic heights .
You may consider a simple account about this statement.
Think in I love Paris (Michel Legrand)(see my review) . In this case Davis is present in the recording session , and we are just talking about the supreme jewel of the instrumental music in any time . I mean , if I love Paris (made in 1954) reached this status (years before A kind of blue) , you must agree with me that Miles Davis owned the magic playing , moreover, the poetic level (and when I talk about poetry , I mean the greek sense of the term , which is creation ).
Specifically , Davis was a very illustrated man , with a strong introspective approach . The notes are there , but the scope is the difference , the velvet touch , the exact expressiveness and the precise instant in what the note must sound vibrato or languish . Davis played music as he would be making a film, writing a book or painting , his trumpet was a brush , a pen or a script according the case .
Notice for instance the Davis sound . I mean Davis was original because he goes to the origin , and transforms the notes , making them "sing" . There are other examples in jazz such as Stan Getz in the saxophone , Wes Montgomery in the guitar or Bill Evans in the piano .
In Davis there was a deep sense of the expression and the wholeness meaning about jazz represents : this sense of freedom , and also a wide spectre of changing sensations , loneliness , happiness , sadness , anguish , desperation or seduction . This gradual sense of the tonal color about every note he played , you may find in the classical music giants , like Casals in the cello playing the Bach suites , Sandor Vegh conducting Mozart or Furtwangler conducting Beethoven or Bruckner , or Lipatti playing Chopin waltz . The sense of the expression and the real presence of commitment to achieve one specific sound and no other one.
A Kind of Blue will be a reference standard not only for many years but also centuries .
I have not any kind of doubt about that.


Worth listening to once.   July 14, 2004
omicron
0 out of 10 found this review helpful

I wasn't too surprised to see that no-one's reviewed this item yet. I'll admit this is not a good album, but the trumpet player on here (Miles Davis) has an interesting style that's reminiscent of Orville Reddenbacher's playing during his final "consumptive" period. This album has been out of print for a long time, but as you can see there are a couple of used copies available, both for less than the price of a cup of coffee. So you might want to ChEcK iT oUt.


Only rated it one star so that everyone will read it   June 28, 2004
Adam Gross (Chicago, IL United States)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful

Okay- here goes,
Now, first of all there is NO ONE that can possibly even doubt Davis' ability as a player. You listen to ANY OTHER trumpet player then listen to him and you will right a way be able to tell how he has his own unique voice whenever he plays his instrument. It is so different than anyone else, and his soundis INCREDIBLY hard to reproduce, most trumpet players can only dream of having a sound and dynamic control like his. Being able to play stuff like this that isn't just fast lound and flashy, and keep it MUSICAL is true genius. You listen to anything on this cd and it is all GENIUS. It really takes a true genius to come up with the stuff he does. After hearing the album Davis makes it extremely clear the mood he was trying to convey to us because thats what music is....a language and he definately says something with this album. No matter if you like it or not, NO ONE can disagree thathe does not get what he wants to say said through this album, because Jazz truly is a great artform- where someone like him can actually do something like this and say so much through music. So honestly, whether you as an individual likes it or not does not matter, because this album besides being hailed as the greatest jazz album of all time, and just plain being insanely amazing, is a true statement of Davis' genius, and this album is truly the greatest piece of art and mastery ever to be created, even though some may not like the music- he gets what he wants said.