Miles Davis Kind Of Blue In The 50's

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In the 50’s, their were a few huge jazz records that came out and one of them being Miles Davis’s album “Kind of Blue” was popular and a commercial success that is still to this day selling copies (Yudkin). The album just hit 50 years old in 2009,but for that to happen, the “Kind of Blue” had to bring seven musicians together first with the help of Miles Davis (Luce). Davis based this album off his earlier work with a hard bebop sound with improvisation making the entire album with little wrote down (Luce). The way Davis uses his band to make this album was unique to this album he uses the same way on another “Milestones” album. My favorite song on the album just happens to be the first song to be recorded and its call “Freddie Freeloader” …show more content…
In the making “Kind of Blue”, Davis took a look at how the order to hear the album should be heard. He wanted to use modal jazz and use it to show what freedom could sound like but with a familiar trope (Barrett). With in each song you can hear fewer chords played for reason being that Miles Davis was wanting to allow more free rage for other band mates to put in their own things. The music integration at the time the album came out had its own impacted on styles of other musicians at that time. Davis use musical language for his album to make the person hearing “Kind of Blues”. When “Kind of Blue” first came out the album had a lot tension between everything else. Kind of Blue brings a idea of hope that could be seen in the late 50’s and early 60’s that one day a integration of blacks and whites could be possible in both high an low class (Barrett). While “Kind of Blue” become huge to a more broad based group with the enthusiasm for a repeat of sound with in blues that was not overlook. Biggest part of Miles Album had on jazz was not just one track but the whole album was ahead of what jazz was known for at that time. The Kind of Blue album had its influence with genres in Rock and Classical, one being Duane Allman from the Allman Brothers (Kind). He goes on to say that one of his bands songs “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” was inspired by the