Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue (Music CD)

Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue (Music CD)
With BIRTH OF THE COOL, Miles Davis distilled a new tonal palette for jazz. As early as 1954, Miles reacted to the escalating chordal complexity of hard bop by fashioning an evocative blues based on a simple scalar pattern (“Swing Spring”). KIND OF BLUE was the ultimate fulfilment of this approach, with Miles providing his collaborators little more than outlines for melodies and simple scales for improvisation. By emphasising the blues and the improvisor’s melodic gifts, KIND OF BLUE precipitated a major stylistic development–modal jazz. Charles Mingus had experimented with pedal points throughout the 1950s, and the melodic freedom of Ornette Coleman’s Atlantic sides was also predicated on freedom from chord changes. But KIND OF BLUE was to prove the most influential, enduring work of its kind.