Soooo, up until yesterday I hadn't heard Kind Of Blue for at least 5 years. I played it out for years and it just became white noise in the midst of a jazz collection so big that I no longer could identify with jazz's most commercially successful album. I wanted to believe that the commercial success of the album was a revelation that the musical content could not be definitive to a connoisseur....WRONG! Yesterday I picked up the 50th Anniversary edition / Legacy double CD because I've read good things about the mastering. I put in my my library and took a listen, and I was really just at first comparing the mastering, the new one is indeed better, but it's not night and day to me. After a few minutes had passed by I became aware all over again just how good this album is, and how, if it isn't the best jazz album of all time, it certainly boasts some of the most touching solos of all time. The tags (hooks) to the song are really really simple, but the solos are very memorable..........ok I'm just rambling.......but I wanted to just point out my absolute favorite moment of the album..................
Yes there's Wynton's "greatest blues piano solo ever" despite Evans' superior position in the album........but the greatest moment of the album is for me when Coltrane enters the B-flat Major section of his solo in Flamenco Sketches................that may be my favorite Coltrane moment of all time!
Yes there's Wynton's "greatest blues piano solo ever" despite Evans' superior position in the album........but the greatest moment of the album is for me when Coltrane enters the B-flat Major section of his solo in Flamenco Sketches................that may be my favorite Coltrane moment of all time!
