Kind of Blue (stereo)

~ Release by Miles Davis (see all versions of this release, 29 available)

Annotation

Notes

Recording location: Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York NY, USA
Recording label: Columbia
Formation: Miles Davis Sextet
#1-3:
March 2, 1959
Miles Davis (tpt); Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (as); John Coltrane (ts); Bill Evans (p); Wynton Kelly (p); Paul Chambers (b); Jimmy Cobb (d)
#4-5:
April 22, 1959
Same personnel, but omit Kelly

Note that Adderley is out on Blue in Green

Release history

CL 1355 is a mono pressing, while CS 8163 is stereo, as usual with Columbia.

Important Notes

Be aware that this is the original release, with off-speed three first tracks (approx 9:02 9:33 5:25).
Reissued as such on cd, it got later corrected to either the "track 1 slow fade" version (9:22 9:43 5:32, as seen in the six tracks version of this release), or as "track 1 fast fade" (9:06 9:43 5:33), as seen in the 5 tracks 1992 reissue.
The off-speed version was largely reprinted during the vinyl era and was issued at least two times on CDs in 1984 & 1987 before later reissues started correcting the off-speed, some with a slightly wrong pitch...
If you're attaching either discids or pweeds here, please be careful in the version you choose!

Annotation last modified on 2008-09-15 22:24 UTC.

Tracklist

# Title Rating Length
  12" Vinyl 1
11 So What
9:05
22 Freddie Freeloader
9:36
33 Blue in Green
5:29
44 All Blues
5 11:34
55 Flamenco Sketches
9:25

Relationships

alto saxophone:
Cannonball Adderley (tracks 4–5)
bass:
Paul Chambers (US jazz bassist) (tracks 4–5)
composer:
Miles Davis (jazz trumpeter, bandleader, songwriter) (tracks 1–5)
Bill Evans (pianist) (tracks 3, 5)
double bass / contrabass / acoustic upright bass:
Paul Chambers (US jazz bassist) [ Remove | Edit ]
drums:
Jimmy Cobb (tracks 4–5)
liner notes:
Bill Evans (pianist) [ Remove | Edit ]
orchestrator:
The Gil Evans Orchestra (track 1)
piano:
Bill Evans (pianist) (tracks 4–5)
Bill Evans (pianist) [ Remove | Edit ]
Wynton Kelly [ Remove | Edit ]
tenor saxophone:
John Coltrane (tracks 4–5)
trumpet:
Miles Davis (jazz trumpeter, bandleader, songwriter) (tracks 4–5)
remasters:
Blue in Green (speed-corrected 1992 re-master: Columbia Studio, New York, US) by Miles Davis (1992) (track 3)
Discogs:
http://www.discogs.com/release/1353040 [info] [ Remove | Edit ]
recording of:
All Blues (track 4)
Blue in Green (track 3)
Flamenco Sketches (track 5)
Freddie Freeloader (track 2)
So What (track 1)