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Author:

Davis, Miles.

Title:

Kind of blue [sound recording] / Miles Davis.

Format:

[sound recording] /

Edition:

50th anniversary collector's ed.

Publisher:

Sony BMG Music Entertainment,

Copyright Date:

p2008

Description:

2 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc (81 min.) (sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.) + 1 sound disc (33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in.) + 1 book (59 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm.) + 1 envelope (6 photographs and other misc. materials) + 1 poster (22 x 33 in..)

Subject:

Jazz--1951-1960.
Trumpet music (Jazz)
Jazz--1951-1960.

Other Authors:

Adderley, Cannonball. prf
Coltrane, John, 1926-1967. prf
Kelly, Wynton. prf
Evans, Bill, 1929-1980. prf
Chambers, Paul, 1935-1969. prf
Cobb, Jimmy. prf

Notes:

Miles Davis, trumpet ; Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, alto saxophone ; John Coltrane, tenor saxophone ; Bill Evans, piano ; Wynton Kelly, piano on "Freddie Freeloader" only ; Paul Chambers, bass ; Jimmy Cobb, drums. Jazz. Recorded Mar. 2 and Apr. 22, 1959, at Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City. DVD titled "Celebrating a masterpiece: Kind of Blue."

Contents:

CD 1. So what -- Freddie Freeloader -- Blue in green -- All Blues -- Flamenco sketches -- Flamenco sketches (alternate take) -- Freddie Freeloader (Studio Sequence 1) -- Freddie Freeloader (False Start) -- Freddie Freeloader (Studio Sequence 2) -- So what (Studio Sequence 1) -- So what (Studio Sequence 2) -- Blue in green (Studio Sequence) -- Flamenco sketches (Studio Sequence 1) -- Flamenco sketches (Studio Sequence 2) -- All Blues (Studio Sequence).
CD 2. On Green Dolphin Street -- Fran-Dance -- Stella by starlight -- Love for sale -- Fran-Dance (alternate take) -- So what.
vinyl disc. So what (side A) -- Freddie Freeloader (side A) -- Blue in green (side A) -- All Blues (side B) -- Flamenco sketches (side B).

Summary:

The DVD incorporates Columbia staff photographer Don Hunstein's black-and-white still photography of the studio sessions, the voice of Miles at the sessions, and excerpts of radio interviews with Evans and Adderley. There are interviews with David Amram, the late Ed Bradley, Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb, Bill Cosby, Herbie Hancock (who demonstrates "So What" at he the piano), funk-rocker Me'Shell Ndegeocello, hip-hop's Q-Tip, Carlos Santana, John Scofield, Horace Silver, and many others. It also unearths the group's entire 26 minute in-session appearance on "Robert Herridge Theatre: The Sound of Miles Davis, " a CBS television program recorded in 1959 and broadcast in 1960. The documentary was produced by Nell Mulderry, directed by Chris Lenz, edited by Paul Rachman, co-produced by Ashley Kahn, and written by Michael Cuscuna.
The book includes "Kind of Blue at 50" by Francis Davis ; "The Last King of America: how Miles Davis invented modernity," by Professor Gerald Early of Washington State University in St. Louis ; and a session-by-session transcript compiled and expounded upon by Ashley Kahn.

UPC:

886973355220

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)