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COLIN STEELE - MILES DAVIS: KIND OF BLUE
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Mon 2 Mar
It was one of the most historic recording sessions in jazz. On 2 March 1959, Miles Davis took a group of musicians that included John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, both Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb into Columbia’s 30th Street Studio in New York, and laid down the first three tracks of what became Kind of Blue.
Miles had been influenced by George Russell’s ideas on modal music as far back as the 405, but this consummate masterpiece, once of the most influential jazz albums ever made, represents his triumph over the form begun in Milestones the year before. The open,
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Trumpeter Colin Steele is well known as an avid Miles devotee, and will celebrate the 50th anniversary of that first session by playing the famous music from the album with a sextet assembled for the occasion.
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