half a century ago, Miles Davis changed the history of music with "Kind of Blue".
Kind of Blue "has been considered the most important jazz album, one of the great works of music of all time and a huge commercial success, with over four million copies sold since its publication in 1959.
"How is it possible to reach the minimum study and come up with something eternal?" asks the guitarist Carlos Santana in the documentary about the recording of the album included in the Sony-BMG reissue goes on sale next week Spain.
Miles Davis (1926-1991) was only an outline of the intended record songs, but to create his masterpiece took just ten hours, spread over two sessions on 2 March and 22 April 1959.
American trumpeter was joined by an exceptional group of musicians in those sessions that were held in the Columbia study on Calle 30 in New York.
The study, now dead, had been built on an ancient Armenian church and its wooden rooms offering excellent acoustics. Miles
accompanied the legendary saxophonist John Coltrane and bassist Paul Chambers, two members of the famous quintet of trumpeter was launched in mid-fifties and which signed a memorable series of albums that began with "'Round About Midnight" (1955).
The team was completed by Julian "Cannonball" Adderley on alto sax, Jimmy Cobb, the only member who still lives ", on drums, and Bill Evans, the only white-band, on piano. Pianist Wynton Kelly
worked in one of six tracks from the album, the sparkling "Freddie Freeloader."
The skill of these musicians and their inspiration in these sessions enabled them to record in one take each of the five pieces included on the disc, something that was unusual at that time.
themes emerged from the improvisation and experimentation with music modal-based scales, techniques that Miles had performed in 1957 on the soundtrack of "Elevator to the Gallows, Louis Malle, and the album" Milestones ", a year later.
The result of "Kind of Blue", a work created from start to finish in the recording studio, was so powerful that half a century later is still the subject of debate among fans and specialists.
That album did not propose a simple title sequence, but an entire art project: a sound journey that began with the famous "So what" and concluded with "Flamenco Sketches", a theme of English influences.
The album won the class Inquiring Minds half of the time and gave a new dimension to jazz.
But his influence reached other genres, and advanced to the concept albums released in the sixties, as the iconic "Sgt Pepper's" of the Beatles.
"How is it possible to reach the minimum study and come up with something eternal?" asks the guitarist Carlos Santana in the documentary about the recording of the album included in the Sony-BMG reissue goes on sale next week Spain.
Miles Davis (1926-1991) was only an outline of the intended record songs, but to create his masterpiece took just ten hours, spread over two sessions on 2 March and 22 April 1959.
American trumpeter was joined by an exceptional group of musicians in those sessions that were held in the Columbia study on Calle 30 in New York.
The study, now dead, had been built on an ancient Armenian church and its wooden rooms offering excellent acoustics. Miles
accompanied the legendary saxophonist John Coltrane and bassist Paul Chambers, two members of the famous quintet of trumpeter was launched in mid-fifties and which signed a memorable series of albums that began with "'Round About Midnight" (1955).
The team was completed by Julian "Cannonball" Adderley on alto sax, Jimmy Cobb, the only member who still lives ", on drums, and Bill Evans, the only white-band, on piano. Pianist Wynton Kelly
worked in one of six tracks from the album, the sparkling "Freddie Freeloader."
The skill of these musicians and their inspiration in these sessions enabled them to record in one take each of the five pieces included on the disc, something that was unusual at that time.
themes emerged from the improvisation and experimentation with music modal-based scales, techniques that Miles had performed in 1957 on the soundtrack of "Elevator to the Gallows, Louis Malle, and the album" Milestones ", a year later.
The result of "Kind of Blue", a work created from start to finish in the recording studio, was so powerful that half a century later is still the subject of debate among fans and specialists.
That album did not propose a simple title sequence, but an entire art project: a sound journey that began with the famous "So what" and concluded with "Flamenco Sketches", a theme of English influences.
The album won the class Inquiring Minds half of the time and gave a new dimension to jazz.
But his influence reached other genres, and advanced to the concept albums released in the sixties, as the iconic "Sgt Pepper's" of the Beatles.
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