‘All Blues’ - Miles Davis 1959 FACT SHEET
GCSE Music: AoS3 Popular Music
All Blues is from the album ‘ Kind of Blue’. Here is the line up for the album: Miles Davis - Trumpet Julian Cannonball Adderley - Alto Sax John Coltrane - Tenor Sax Bill Evans - Piano Paul Chambers - Bass Jimmy Cobb - Drums
In this album, Miles Davis wanted to explore the concept of MODAL JAZZ. He felt that soloists were becoming too restricted to playing over chord changes. He felt that by giving the a
Piano Trill in the Intro
MODE to improvise around that this would lead to longer, freer improvisations. The result is that modal jazz songs are significantly longer.
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