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Kind of Blue is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Bill Evans, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie and George Russell. Those roots explain a lot about how Kind of Blue arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Scott LaFaro, Paul Motian and Wes Montgomery, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 10 connections around Kind of Blue, reaching back through Bill Evans and forward to John Coltrane. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released on August 17, 1959, by Columbia Records. For this album, Davis led a sextet featuring saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, pianist Bill Evans, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Jimmy Cobb, with new band pianist Wynton Kelly replacing Evans on "Freddie Freeloader". The album was recorded at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City in two sessions on March 2 and April 22, 1959.
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Kind of Blue grew out of Bill Evans, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie, went on to shape John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian. 10 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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