‘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.
Sturcture
‘All Blues’ - Miles Davis All Blues is based on the 12 Bar Blues Chord Progression
G7
G7
G7
G7
C7
C7
G7
G7
D7
Eb7#9 D7#9
G7
G7
Key Words Changes - The chord sequence in a jazz song Head - The main melody of a jazz song, generally played at the beginning of a song Modal Jazz - a jazz style in which the soloists base their solos on modes instead of chord changes Comping - an abbreviation of ‘Accompanying’ Frontline - the solo instruments in a jazz ensemble Extended Chord - a chord in which the diatonic notes other than a 7th have been added. Altered Chord - a chord in which one of the notes has been sharpened or flattened to become a different note.
Sax Riff