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Noah Dueck started the topic Miles Davis – Kind of Blue LP in the forum I heard a great recording 11 years, 7 months ago
I’ve recently received a mint, never-been-played, vinyl copy of Miles Davis – Kind of Blue. It is absolutely fantastic! I’ve heard subtleties in the music that I had never noticed before. The background fluttering in ‘All Blues’ was one of those moments. It is a great addition to my vinyl collection and an absolute pleasure to listen to.
It sounds like we need to sit down and do an A-B comparison between the Columbia sanctioned re-mastered for CD version and your LP. Is it a re-issue or does is it an original release?
As far as I can tell, it is an original release 1959!
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That’s an excellent record! One of my favourites as well. I don’t know if you are aware of this, but this album is essentially improvisation. Miles Davis wrote the basics and then he and the other musicians ‘jammed’ it out with this as the final product.
“As the painter needs is framework of parchment, the improvising musical group needs its framework in time. Miles Davis presents here frameworks which are exquisite in their simplicity and yet contain all that is necessary to stimulate performance with a sure reference to the primary conception.
Miles conceived these settings only hours before the recording dates and arrived with sketches which indicated to the group what was to be played. Therefore, you will hear something close to pure spontaneity in these performances. The group had never played these pieces prior to the recordings and I think without exception the first complete performance of each was a ‘take.’”
– Bill Evans on Improvisation in Jazz