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Genius Annotation

It’s well documented that among Davis' demon circa Kind of Blue was heroin. Because of this, the album (even on the jolly “Freddie Freeloader”) has a very melancholic edge, particularly evident on “Blue In Green”.

Cannonball Adderley sits out as Davis and Coltrane trade modal poems over Bill Evans‘ contemplative, searching piano. The 10 bar cycle seductively illustrates Evans’ assertion in the album’s liner notes that:

…as the painter needs his framework of parchment, the improvising musical group needs its framework in time,. Miles Davis presents here frameworks which are exquisite in their simplicity and yet contain all that is necessary to stimulate performance with sure reference to the primary conception.

Decades later, this song was sampled and reproduced by modern jazz artist Robert Glasper for his Everything’s Beautiful project, which paid tribute to the deceased Davis.

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