Recording of All Blues The album Kind of Blue was recorded in 1959 in New York in thee 3 hour sessions Line up for album Kind of Blue
All of these musicians were top top jazz musicians of the time playing at the peak of their abilities - they also all worked well together. In this album Davis wanted to explore the idea of modal jazz; he felt jazz was becoming too dependent on complex chord sequences with the soloist restricted to 'playing the changes' so even in a 32 bar structure the soloist would have to go back to the beginning after the 32 bars and play again with variations. Miles Davis felt that if the soloist was freed from the restriction of sticking to the chords this would lead to longer, freer improvisations.Structure of All Blues All Blues is based around a repeated 12-bar blues sequence with a 4 bar linking riff between each section. The main melody (the head) and the solos are all played over the 12-bar sequence (the changes) The 12-bar sequence is repeated 19 times. This chord sequence is slightly different from a standard 12-bar blues sequence.
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