Jorge,
Without meaning to offend you & without meaning to be the "Jazz Police" - "Kind of Blue" is an awesome album!
My friend lent me the CD, which is a Sony SBM i.e. 20-bits, etc, etc & it promised to be a good recording. I heard it a few time & I just didn't like it! I wonder why the performers were making so much noise in all the tracks?? Where was the music? Anyway, I just had a gut feeling that I was missing something 'cuz everyone I spoke to - young or older - expressed to me just how great this album is & that it represents some seminal Jazz work.
So, I bit the bullet & bought the Classic Records re-issue LP from Music Direct.
I can tell you emphatically & confidently that it completely changed my opinion of this album! The LP is just dynamite & the CD version just plain sucks!
The SBM recording CD might be a good recording but the LP takes this music to a higher level that the CD just *cannot* match. The synergy of the instruments in all the tracks is just incredible & the album now sounds like music.
Another thing that will help you (& it helps me a lot) is to read some liner notes & other info that you can find re. this album. This helps to explain the existing conditions of Jazz & the resp. artists during the year that the album was recorded. It helps to transport you to that era & mentally sets you up to listen to the music in the correct context. Some people call this their "mood" - somedays we want to rock the house w/ Rolling Stones, other days we want some calming music, still other days we want a seductive voice like Diana Krall, etc. To apprciate "Kind of Blue" you must set your mood correctly - it is "heavy" Jazz in that it is Bop Jazz, which is not casually listened to as background music while cooking dinner! Maybe one day you will when you become more acustomed to listening to traditional Jazz.
The new Jazz of Pat Barber & Diana Krall is very good & has its place but the traditional Jazz of Miles Davis, Ray Brown, Oscar Peterson, etc, etc. is richer music. It doesn't follow a conformist pattern that most music to today follows. Thus, the artists are able to show of their tremendous skills while still playing to a beat/rhythm! This same non-conformist accent is very much present in "Kind Of Blue" & is perhaps the reason it didn't appeal to you.
FWIW. IMHO. YMMV.
Without meaning to offend you & without meaning to be the "Jazz Police" - "Kind of Blue" is an awesome album!
My friend lent me the CD, which is a Sony SBM i.e. 20-bits, etc, etc & it promised to be a good recording. I heard it a few time & I just didn't like it! I wonder why the performers were making so much noise in all the tracks?? Where was the music? Anyway, I just had a gut feeling that I was missing something 'cuz everyone I spoke to - young or older - expressed to me just how great this album is & that it represents some seminal Jazz work.
So, I bit the bullet & bought the Classic Records re-issue LP from Music Direct.
I can tell you emphatically & confidently that it completely changed my opinion of this album! The LP is just dynamite & the CD version just plain sucks!
The SBM recording CD might be a good recording but the LP takes this music to a higher level that the CD just *cannot* match. The synergy of the instruments in all the tracks is just incredible & the album now sounds like music.
Another thing that will help you (& it helps me a lot) is to read some liner notes & other info that you can find re. this album. This helps to explain the existing conditions of Jazz & the resp. artists during the year that the album was recorded. It helps to transport you to that era & mentally sets you up to listen to the music in the correct context. Some people call this their "mood" - somedays we want to rock the house w/ Rolling Stones, other days we want some calming music, still other days we want a seductive voice like Diana Krall, etc. To apprciate "Kind of Blue" you must set your mood correctly - it is "heavy" Jazz in that it is Bop Jazz, which is not casually listened to as background music while cooking dinner! Maybe one day you will when you become more acustomed to listening to traditional Jazz.
The new Jazz of Pat Barber & Diana Krall is very good & has its place but the traditional Jazz of Miles Davis, Ray Brown, Oscar Peterson, etc, etc. is richer music. It doesn't follow a conformist pattern that most music to today follows. Thus, the artists are able to show of their tremendous skills while still playing to a beat/rhythm! This same non-conformist accent is very much present in "Kind Of Blue" & is perhaps the reason it didn't appeal to you.
FWIW. IMHO. YMMV.