Jazz Musicians Get Real About ‘Kind Of Blue'

You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

Peter Martin

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Kind of Blue is one of the most iconic albums in the jazz idiom. It's inspired so many of us that we even use it as the modern standard for a great album. Join Adam and Peter as they breakdown what exactly makes this album so great.

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0:00.0	Hey Peter, you know what this bell signifies?
0:03.0	I do not.
0:03.8	It means that it's time.
0:05.8	Time for... The bell means that it's time for K-O-B. Right on time.
0:31.6	I'm at a man. And you're listening to the You'll Hear at podcast.
0:35.3	Jazz appreciation and love coming at you. Jazz appreciation and love coming at you.
0:38.7	Appreciation and love coming at you.
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0:47.9	Peter, it's another edition of what makes this album great,
0:51.3	and it's an album that we've been alluding to since the beginning of
0:54.6	this series in fact it's part of one of the beginning of time honestly it's uh it's one of the
0:59.9	categories that we have on our scorecard here is in direct reference to this album it is of course
1:05.2	miles davis's immortal 1959 masterpiece kind of blue and it's time we had a little review yes i love the reverential
1:15.0	attitude we're already bringing to this and i think as we get into this we realize like we've
1:19.8	really um we've set the bar with this album we've talked about a lot we've joked about a lot always
1:25.7	with love and reverence but like this is where the rubber's going to hit the road, my friend.
1:30.1	Yeah, you know, this is a tough one because it is, it is overhyped. It gets all the hype. Whenever people talk about jazz or anything related to jazz, this album usually is one of the first thing that comes up. It's at the top of everyone's list or near the top of everyone's list of greatest jazz albums of all time. It's near the top of everyone's list for greatest albums of all time, usually. Right, but what I'm very interested in number nine are snobble meter, because does it show up on a snob's top ten? Like're saying everyone but does it though that's going to be
2:01.7	the big question i have my answer for it but i'm curious to to hear what your answer is my page
2:07.2	i have a blank page i am a blank page on this one i'm i'm there's no way you're a blank page
2:12.1	well no i want to come to this album with with with with as much objectivity as I can um obviously it's an incredible album our number 10
2:20.5	and we're going to go over our categories again in case this is your first time we might have a lot
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