Kind of Blue


This was the first Jazz CD I ever owned.  I currently have over 200 Jazz CDs and Kind of Blue is still #1 on my list.

What are your favs?

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I'm not a big Jazz fan but,Coltrane's  A Love Supreme is one of my faves.

Big jazz fan here!

Not a big KoB fan, though. I like Sketches of Spain, Silent Way and Bitches Brew much more.

Here’s a few more. Note, that my tastes in jazz (and music in general) is toward more progressive forms. So, YMMV.

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Pharaoh Sanders - Black Unity, Karma

Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the El Daoud, Journey in Satchidananda

Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage

McCoy Tyner - Sahara, Asanta, Extensions

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame, Birds of Fire, Lost Trident Sessions

Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue, Road Games, I.O.U.

Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior, Hymn of the Seventh Gallery

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Nice Guys, People of Sorrow, Full Force

Oregon - Out of the Woods

Steve Coleman and the Five Elements - The Sonic Language of Myth, Genesis & the Opening of the Way

Mary Halvorson - Amarylis, Belladonna, Cloudward, Code Girl

Bruford - One of a Kind

 

 

‘Kind of Blue” came out in 1959, the same year as two other albums I like at least as much—“Time Out” by Dave Brubeck, and ‘Shape of Jazz to Come” by Ornette Coleman.  There are MANY great jazz albums to collect.  Many sound really good on vinyl.