The album I've chosen to write about is Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue”. I've chosen this album because of the simple fact that critics rate it one of the best Jazz albums of all time. This album consists of six songs. “Kind of blue” has accumulated an enormous amount of accolades over the last half century. This album debuted in the year of 1959 and was enlisted in the Rolling Stone Hall of Fame in the year of 2003. Miles Davis’s work still influences many artists today. Miles Davis wasn't the only musician that contributed to the masterpiece known as kind of blue. Miles Davis had a group also known as a sextet which played beautifully on the album. The Sextet considered of Bill Evans, Jimmy Cobb, Paul Chambers, Julian Adderley, & Wynton …show more content…
Hard Bop music is has a slower pace and has a sound that is definitely influenced by the blues. Unlike bebop that almost abandons the blues influence and has shorter notes and a more sporadic sound. This hard Bop era took place between 1956-1960 and one of the ambassadors of this sound was yours truly Miles Davis. There where are six songs on the album and one of them was the song “So what”. In this song miles Davis starts off with a trumpet solo. This lasts until about the four-minute mark of the song where he plays long hard-hitting notes. There is a point of this song where he lets the pianist set the pace and he chimes as if he's responding to each note the piano plays. For example, the piano would go (A-A-A-A-B-B-A-A-A-A-B-B) and the B is the trumpet of Miles Davis responding to Wynton Kelly's piano. In “Flamenco Sketches” one of the longer songs on the album Miles Davis plays almost surprised me during the halfway point of the song. This is where he almost picks up tempo and makes it seem as if he is playing bebop. Then he goes back to playing his usual sexy but piercing trumpet. Then demonstrates what I think is his genius toward the end of the song. Where he lets the drums set the tempo then he joins in with sharp but simple notes. This album consists of a lot of off guard trumpet sounds. What I mean by that is the base or the drum or even the piano will play a downbeat