“I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from conventional string of chords and a return to emphasis on melodic rather than harmonic variations. There will be fewer chords, but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.”
Miles Davis 1958
If you have a chance this winter, take another listen to the 1959 recording “Kind of Blue”; some say it is the greatest improvisational jazz album ever recorded. Follow it up with “Sketches of Spain” for a listening experience that is said to contain the full range of human emotion.
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