The Naming of Names: "Flamenco Sketches" or "All Blues"? Identifying the Last Two Tracks on Miles Davis's Classic Album Kind of Blue
2012; Oxford University Press; Volume: 95; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/musqtl/gds006
ISSN1741-8399
Autores Tópico(s)Theater, Performance, and Music History
ResumoThe official release date of the new Miles Davis album Kind of Blue was 17 August 1959. People waited in line at record stores to buy it on the day it appeared.1 The album sold very well from its first day and received good reviews in the music magazines. Metronome found the playing “concise and pointed” and the ensemble “moving”; Down Beat called the record “remarkable,” “an album of extreme beauty and sensitivity,” and ended its review by stating “This is the soul of Miles Davis, and it's a beautiful soul.”2Kind of Blue has sold increasingly well ever since. It is still selling thousands of copies a week and by now has sold over four million copies in the United States alone.3 In 2005, Columbia/Legacy released a CD/DVD version of the album. It is the best-selling jazz album in the Columbia Records catalogue, and at the end of the twentieth century, it was voted one of the ten best albums ever produced.4 In an English poll conducted at that time, it came out at the very top of the “50 best recordings of the 20th century.”5 The definition of a classic is something of both the highest excellence and enduring significance, and Kind of Blue is indubitably a classic.6
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