1959: The Year that Changed Jazz

[RainDog]

This is a great program for anyone who loves music.

[longship]

1. Miles Davis -- Kind of Blue.

Probably the greatest jazz album ever recorded. Released in 1959.

[RainDog]

2. Here's archival footage of a live performance

From a tv show.

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3. Take Five: Dave Brubeck Quartet

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4. Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um

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5. Ornette Coleman: The Shape of Jazz to Come: Peace

The full album is available in HQ on youtube.

[klook]

6. Prez and Lady Day die, "Kind of Blue" is born - watershed year

Wow.

Thanks so much for posting this.

Whenever somebody tells me they'd like to know more about jazz but just don't know where to start, I loan them Kind of Blue. That's the best door in I know of.

Trane's Giant Steps (OK, released in 1960 -- but recorded in 1959), Thelonious Monk at Town Hall, Jazz in Silhouette by Sun Ra. And later that year and into 1960, Miles and Gil Evans record Sketches of Spain. It's as though every orchid in the world bloomed at once.



And Sonny Rollins was on sabbatical, playing on the bridge every night, germinating his own musical garden.

Wow.

[RainDog]

8. beautiful post. simpatico

It's as though every orchid in the world bloomed at once.

I love to hear, not just read about, how music was created.

My burg celebrates Sun Ra's bday every year at a club. The musicians dress "ala ra" - and the audience can too - silly fun with good musicians.

I've been reading Kelley's bio of Monk. Nice work.

[cyberswede]

7. Awesome - thanks for posting!

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[RainDog]

9. copacetic

[beerandjesus]

10. Awesome documentary, thanks for posting!

[xiamiam]

11. thanks..nt