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  Miles Davis Iconic 1959 Album Kind of Blue Turns 60: Revisit the Album That Changed American Music

  

  openculture.com

  No amount of continuous repeats in coffeeshops around the world can dull the crystalline brilliance of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue one bit. The album turned 60 three days ago, and it still stands as one of the most influential albums, jazz or otherwise, of all time… indeed, as “one of the single greatest achievements […]

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  How Cannonball Adderley Shared the Joy of Jazz

  

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  Jazz has always had big personalities. In the mid-20th century, an explosion of major players became...

  Jazz has always had big personalities. In the mid-20th century, an explosion of major players became as well known for their personal quirks as for their revolutionary techniques and compositions. Monk’s endearing oddness, Miles Davis’ brooding bad temper, Charles Mingus’ exuberant shouts and rages, Ornette Coleman’s cryptic philosophizing, Coltrane’s gentle mysticism…. These were not only […] How Cannonball Adderley Shared the Joy of Jazz...

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  Miles Davis is Attacked, Beaten & Arrested by the NYPD Outside Birdland, Eight Days After the Release of Kind of Blue (1959)

  

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  It is hard, on the other hand, to blame the policeman, blank, good-natured, thoughtless, and insuperably...

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  Jimmy Cobb, drummer on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, dies aged 91

  

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  Jazz musician who was key to Davis’s sound was the last surviving player on the classic...

  Jazz musician who was key to Davis’s sound was the last surviving player on the classic albumJimmy Cobb, the jazz drummer and last surviving player on Miles Davis’s seminal 1959 album Kind of Blue has died from lung cancer at age 91.Cobb was key in helping to achieve the cool disposition of a handful of Davis’s masterworks, including 1959’s Porgy and Bess, 1960’s Sketches...

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