Track Listing

1. So What
2. Freddie Freeloader
3. Blue In Green
4. All Blues
5. Flamenco Sketches
6. Flamenco Sketches
7. So What
8. Freddie Freeloader
9. Blue In Green
10. All Blues
11. Flamenco Sketches
12. Flamenco Sketches
13. So What
14. Freddie Freeloader
15. Blue In Green
16. All Blues
17. Flamenco Sketches
18. Flamenco Sketches
19. Made In Heaven
20. Photo Gallery
21. Miles Speaks

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #82832 in Music
• Released on: 2005-09-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: DualDisc
• Dimensions: .29 pounds

Customer Reviews

The DVD-Audio is absolutely stunning - a revelation!
This music needs no introduction. I've owned this album in one form or another since 1962, and thought I knew it inside out. I got this DualDisk version initially because it has a documentary also included. I just wasn't prepared for the extra insight and pleasure I got from this version of "Kind of Blue". If you can play 5-channel this is a must-have bargain, especially at the £9.99 I paid.
I bought the Hybrid SACD some time ago, but found the SACD layer was mastered at a very low level and was never happy with the sound.
In spite of what another reviewer says, there is definitely a high-res 5.1 DVD-A layer here - you need a TV display to access it (a nuisance but well worth it). On a 5 channel system this sounds far better than the SACD. The musicians become tangible: on "All Blues" Trane walks towards the mike as he begins his solo and the effect is startling. The three-dimensionality of the surround sound separates the instruments and makes the interplay of the musicians easier to understand. It's easier to follow lines and Bill Evans' role emerges in this mix like never before. I realised I had never before fully appreciated his Ravel-like solo on "Flamenco Sketches".
The documentary about the album is by Ashley Kahn and is interesting too.
I assure you the 5.1 DVD-Audio mix is a revelation. No matter how many times you've heard this music before, you'll get new pleasure from this version played on a decent multichannel system.
If you have a universal player the multichannel SACD of "Silent Way" is similarly rewarding.

Kind Of Blue
Words cannot really do justice to this album. If it catches you just right it is all about the experience and not some intellectual definition. It's a classic for a reason and a great introduction to Miles Davis and jazz in general. Lower the lights, open a bottle of red wine and put this on, it's what jazz is all about!

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I suppose there must be many people who've bought this and been instantly blown away. After all, this is the token jazz album that every sod owns, right next to their Bob Marley compilation and a dusty copy of What's Going On no doubt. I'd also wager that there's a couple of million people that have decided jazz is "not for them" after being under-whelmed by this album. I was one of them. In fact, I'd pretty much given up on jazz until about a year ago. Before long, though, I found myself well immersed in the world of Pharoah Sanders, John Coltrane, Sun Ra and Charles Mingus. The obvious names, I know, but I loved what I was hearing. I even indulged myself with some later Miles Davis (Dark Magus is slowly becoming one of my favourite albums). So, what about Kind of Blue? I still find it mostly under-whelming. It's cool, completely chilled out and great background music, but best jazz album ever? I just don't see that.

Perhaps you do, and in which case I envy you, but please don't give up on the genre if you don't. You owe it to yourself to dig deeper.