jeudi 22 octobre 2009

Kind of Blue

Si vous cherchez pour le jazz pur; vous devez avoir Kind of Blue par Miles Davis. Bien que les figures précises aient été contestées, Kind of Blue a été citée par beaucoup d'auteurs de musique pas seulement comme l'album le mieux vendant de Davis, mais comme le record le mieux vendant de jazz de tout le temps. C'est élégant, sombre et émollient.
Kind of Blue isn't merely an artistic highlight for Miles Davis, it's an album that towers above its peers, a record generally considered as the definitive jazz album, a universally acknowledged standard of excellence. Why does Kind of Blue posses such a mystique? Perhaps because this music never flaunts its genius... It's the pinnacle of modal jazz — tonality and solos build from the overall key, not chord changes, giving the music a subtly shifting quality... It may be a stretch to say that if you don't like Kind of Blue, you don't like jazz — but it's hard to imagine it as anything other than a cornerstone of any jazz collection.
-Stephen T Erlewine

Où le trouver ?
- A la médiathèque Jules-Verne

3 commentaires:

  1. I think an obligatory "Merci" is in order for someone.

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  2. Not at all. I think someone else deserves a bigger thanking for setting up the base and patches.

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  3. What base, Einstein ? I was referring to the whole "the force compels you to listen to jazz classics and not neo-noir Merilyn Manson disasters"-ordeal anyway.

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