Re: Davis' Modal Stuff

["Christo Jota" <chris@christojota.de>]

"Kind of Blue" - Miles Davis.
IMPRESSING: All tracks are first takes-recordings.
They just spent 7 hours recording time on this
great album!

Christo Jota

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "andy butler" <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: Davis' Modal Stuff


> Rainer Straschill wrote:
> 
> > work of art, it's necessary to put it into historic context. So in or
> > around 1559, what was happening in the jazz world?
> > A few examples:
> > "Freedom Suite" by Sonny Rollins (1958), a sax/bass/drums trio
> > "This is our music" by Ornette Coleman (1960), sax/trumpet/bass/drums
> > "Giant Steps" by John Coltrane (1960), sax/piano/bass/drums
> > 
> 
> As a recent BBC documentary related, there were 4 significant
> albums released that year.
> Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
> The Shape of Jazz to Come - Ornette Coleman's debut on Atlantic
> Time Out - Dave Brubeck Quartet.
> Ah Um - Mingus
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edbwVKwFF6Y
> 
> I'm not going to say I think one album is better
> than the rest, but don't bother having a conversation
> with me while TSJC is playing.
> 
> Of course, KOB is perfect background music, probably
> one of it's selling points, especially to the jazz critics ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > break out of it. It's nice to see what Walter Norris does on Something
> > Else (Coleman, 1958), who obviously was in those sessions by request
> > of the producer, but quickly felt that he simply couldn't play
> > anything that worked with Coleman's concept - so he stayed out of the
> > way pretty much.
> 
> There's one point on that album where the piano plays this incredibly
> strong and lucid melody with complete confidence. Kind of sticks
> out from the rest of the playing. Very strange.
> 
> andy butler
>