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Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue (Staff Pick!)
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Title: Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1959, Jazz, Modal Jazz, New York City
Condition: New
Cultural Facts:
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Studio Lore: Miles brought skeletal modal frameworks and relied on first-take psychology—minimal rehearsal so the band had to invent solutions in real time.
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Band Drama: The lineup was a pressure cooker of competing bandleaders (Coltrane, Cannonball) under Miles’ control—genius collaboration, constant tension.
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Media Narrative: Early pressings ran at the wrong tape speed on one side, creating “wrong-pitch” copies that collectors still argue about decades later.
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