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Kind Of Bloop
''Kind of Bloop'' is an album produced by Andy Baio, intended as a chiptune cover of Miles Davis's album ''Kind of Blue''. Composition, release and reception Kickstarter is a website that allows people to pool together money to fund others' projects. A few months after its launch in 2009, Baio, a Miles Davis fan and the site's then chief technical officer, came up with the idea of recreating ''Kind of Blue'' in chiptune, a type of music found in early video games, as an example project to test the site's functionality. After getting copyright permission for each of ''Kind of Blue'' five songs, Baio assigned each to a musician to work on for three months, allowing each complete creative control with the sole condition of keeping "Davis' original feeling and intensity". The track "All Blues" fell to New York jazz pianist Sam Ascher-Weiss, who created his version by relying on a recording of himself playing the original. According to him, the task was tiresome, requiring " a masoch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kind Of Blue
''Kind of Blue'' is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released on August17,1959, by Columbia Records. For this album, Davis led a sextet featuring saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, pianist Bill Evans, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Jimmy Cobb, with new band pianist Wynton Kelly replacing Evans on " Freddie Freeloader". The album was recorded at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City in two sessions on March2 and April22,1959. Influenced in part by Evans, who had been a member of the ensemble in 1958 and was called back for this album, Davis departed further from his early hard bop style in favor of greater experimentation with musical modes, as on the title track of his previous album, ''Milestones'' (1958). Basing ''Kind of Blue'' entirely on modality, Davis gave each performer a set of scales that encompassed the parameters of their improvisation and style and consequently more creative freedom with melodies; Coltra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
