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Engine · 03-12-2010, 05:27 PM

Kind of Blue is the perfect 'company for dinner' album. I can only guess how many hundreds l've times I've listened to it but it somehow doesn't become unlistenable. That's a rare quality in any album, let alone a jazz one. Bitches Brew, on the other hand is unfortunately on my list of overplayed albums. I haven't heard it for years and I'll go a while longer. The good news is that one day I'll get to hear it fresh again and it will reignite my passion for that kind of thing.

My personal favorite Miles album is Filles de Kilimanjaro. It was made only a little while before Bitches Brew and it has kind of the same feel but with more Miles and before he had gone electric. I think of it as his acoustic pre-fusion. This album I can listen to pretty much any time any day. Very accessible but still experimental and interesting.

03-12-2010, 05:27 PM	#3 (permalink)
Engine air quote Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: pollen & mold Posts: 3,108	Kind of Blue is the perfect 'company for dinner' album. I can only guess how many hundreds l've times I've listened to it but it somehow doesn't become unlistenable. That's a rare quality in any album, let alone a jazz one. Bitches Brew, on the other hand is unfortunately on my list of overplayed albums. I haven't heard it for years and I'll go a while longer. The good news is that one day I'll get to hear it fresh again and it will reignite my passion for that kind of thing. My personal favorite Miles album is Filles de Kilimanjaro. It was made only a little while before Bitches Brew and it has kind of the same feel but with more Miles and before he had gone electric. I think of it as his acoustic pre-fusion. This album I can listen to pretty much any time any day. Very accessible but still experimental and interesting. __________________ Like an arrow, I was only passing through.