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Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Submitted by lesnewsom on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 08:00

 In the liner notes to the best selling album of all time, jazz pianist Bill Evans describes the challenge that jazz ensembles have when performing a piece of music:
 
Group improvisation is a further challenge. Aside from the weighty technical problem of collective coherent thinking, there is the very human, even social need for sympathy from all members to bend for the common result. This most difficult problem, I think, is beautifully met and solved on this recording.
 
Kind of Blue is the gold standard for the word “masterpiece.” Rarely do the planets line up to bring together such talent at the heights of their careers quite like this recording.

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