Albums you should already have: Kind of Blue
Marty Finley
Issue date: 3/27/08 Section: Features
The albums ends with the gorgeous Flamenco Sketches, a song that encapsulates loneliness that many Mississippi Delta blues guitarists would have cut the tips of their fingers off to emulate.
Unfortunately, Davis' hot temper would cause a rift to form between him and Coltrane. As a result, Coltrane spent much of the early 60s playing with Thelonious Monk and his quartet. He later moved on and record his own solo records, including the amazing A Love Supreme.
Davis would continue to be successful, but his foray into different forms of jazz-several of which he created-would separate him from the greatness of this album and sound slightly lacking in comparison-though Bitches Brew will always be awesome.
Modern music's disposable rap singles and sugary pop ditties leave no tolerance for virtuosos, though. Davis would be panhandling on a street corner in New Orleans while playing a rusted trumpet if he began his career today. It really is a shame.
But, it doesn't have to be this way. Davis has left this world, but his music is still available to us-and in high sound quality no less.
So, in other words, there's no reason for you not to hear Kind of Blue and find out what classic really means.
Unfortunately, Davis' hot temper would cause a rift to form between him and Coltrane. As a result, Coltrane spent much of the early 60s playing with Thelonious Monk and his quartet. He later moved on and record his own solo records, including the amazing A Love Supreme.
Davis would continue to be successful, but his foray into different forms of jazz-several of which he created-would separate him from the greatness of this album and sound slightly lacking in comparison-though Bitches Brew will always be awesome.
Modern music's disposable rap singles and sugary pop ditties leave no tolerance for virtuosos, though. Davis would be panhandling on a street corner in New Orleans while playing a rusted trumpet if he began his career today. It really is a shame.
But, it doesn't have to be this way. Davis has left this world, but his music is still available to us-and in high sound quality no less.
So, in other words, there's no reason for you not to hear Kind of Blue and find out what classic really means.
