Miraclo Miles

Not Jazzed Not trying to make an argument of it, I'm just giving my perspective. A piece in Newsweek lauds the 50th anniversary of Mile Davis' album Kind of Blue, Technically, the tracks for the album were recorded on March 2 and April 22 of 1959, and the album not released until August 17th, but I didn't want to just set this for that date, especially as I've posted so little to this blog in the past several months. I'll turn 48 this year, and I've made a habit for much of my adult life to revisit various bits of music that are highly lauded but have thus far simply failed to click for me, checking to see if something or other falls into place and I "get" it. Here's So What ...and here's All Blues , as these are two of the items noted as "staples in the jazz repertoire" in the article. So far, the majority of jazz, including the items show above still don't work for me. I always try to get into a positive, or at least open, stat...