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Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"

Is it just me...or is the recording of this session overhyped...I agree it is a great performance...but "Birth of the Cool" and others are superior in my mind...any thoughts?
phasecorrect
pbb
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Stranger things have been known to happen: I agree with Albertporter for a change! Maybe we should avoid any talk about gear in order to achieve a modus vivendi. From the mid-fi trenches, good day.
sdcampbell
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Some time ago, I made a long post about Miles Davis and the "Kind of Blue" recording and why it was important in jazz circles. Rather than try to recap what I wrote, here is the link to my old post:
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?rmusi&995231381&read&keyw&zzkind=of=blue
whatjd
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Perhaps the king has no clothes?

I love Jazz, it has been my main music diet for 30+ years. That said, I do like "Kind Of Blue", but enjoy many others more.

While we are on the subject, will Acoustic Sounds ever get tired of re-releasing the same 20 or so titles in every new format and 180g 33 1/3 rpm..now 45 rpm? This is the "Kind Of Blue" thinking that keeps many other great Jazz performances either unavailable or obscure.

Odd that until recently all copies of the lp, cd, etc.of "Kind Of Blue" were from a master tape that was running fast..ie: sharp.

Happy Holidays, Jim
stne418
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Cannonball Adderley's "Something Else" CD/LP was recorded around the same time with almost the same band and I prefer that recording to KOB. Also Miles' "Milestones" is better to my ears. Neither of those two has been remastered 99 times like KOB... I think KOB is slightly overrated...as is Bitches Brew. I just got the 20 CD Montreaux box set...so far it is a disappointment sound quality wise after 2 CDs, but there's 18 to go.
stne418
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Addenda to prev. post... the first and second CD on the Montreaux Live boxset was not great sound, but it was a 1973 recording...so in retro...sounds decent. The remaining 18 sound very good for live recordings of electronic jazz.

Did anyone hear that some King of Blue remasters were done at the wrong speed?
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