This is everything jazz could be: avant-garde, hip, and soulful.
Even if you’ve never bought a jazz album in your life, you’ve heard Miles Davis’ masterpiece, Kind of Blue — at a party, in a movie, or a restaurant. Though it was just a blip in the jazz world when it was released in 1959, it eventually became the archetypical jazz record. Ave Carrillo tries to figure out what it is that makes the album so extraordinary.
Studio 360's American Icons is made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: great ideas brought to life. Studio 360 is a co-production of Public Radio International and WNYC Radio, and is funded in part by Ken and Lucy Lehman, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the SC Group. Our series on creativity and science is supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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All-time favorite album for me
KIND OF BLUE WAS THE BEST JAZZ ALBLUM OF ALL TIMES
Time goes by and what is always left as the evidence of grand events is the art of the artisans. Miles Davis remains in my ear all these years as the best trumpet player I've ever listened to. I hope he's doing fine with Gabriel's horn up there.
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