85046
Miles Davis - All Blues
- Context
- From the album, "Kind of Blue"
- Recorded in New York, 1959. Musicians would not
have read from a score - would have known basic
structure and order of solos.
- Combination of soloists regarded
as greatest collection of jazz
musicians ever assembled.
- From the album, "Kind of Blue"
- Texture
- Mainly melody with
accompaniment
(provided by rhythm
section)
- Soloists never
improvise at the
same time.
- Sax riff adds
another layer to
texture when it is
used.
- Mainly melody with
accompaniment
(provided by rhythm
section)
- Tonality
- Piece based
around 12 bar Blues
in G major
- Modal jazz
- Piece based
around 12 bar Blues
in G major
- Harmony
- Jazz based harmony, extended chords (7ths/9ths)
- Blue notes
- Jazz based harmony, extended chords (7ths/9ths)
- Melody
- Main tune is called the
head. Davis performs this
on trumpet at the beginning
and end of the piece.
- Four improvised solos.
Trumpet (Davis), alto sax
(Adderley), tenor sax (Coltrane)
and piano (Evans).
- Head melody is based on motif
of a major sixth leap.
Ornamented with mordents.
- Main tune is called the
head. Davis performs this
on trumpet at the beginning
and end of the piece.
- Instruments
- Trumpet (sometimes is played using a harmon
mute), Alto sax, tenor sax, piano, bass drums (played
with brushes in places).
- Trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax = frontline
- Piano, bass and rums = rhythm
- Trumpet (sometimes is played using a harmon
mute), Alto sax, tenor sax, piano, bass drums (played
with brushes in places).
- Tempo
- Crotchet = 156. Jazz waltz
- Tempo does not change
- Crotchet = 156. Jazz waltz
- Rhythm and metre
- Written in 6/4 to give jazz waltz feel
- Jazzy rhythms used, triplets, syncopations. Swung quavers.
- Written in 6/4 to give jazz waltz feel
- Structure
- Intro, head 1, head 2, trumpet
solo, alto sax solo, tenor sax solo,
piano solo, head 3, head 4, coda.
- 12 bar blues sequence is repeated 19 times
- G7
- Gm
- D7
- D7
- Gm
- G7
- Gm
- Eb7
- Eb7
- Gm
- G7
- G7
- F G
- F G
- G7
- G7
- G7
- F G
- F G
- G7
- G7
- Four bar riff links each section
together
- Intro, head 1, head 2, trumpet
solo, alto sax solo, tenor sax solo,
piano solo, head 3, head 4, coda.
- Dynamics
- No big dynamic contrasts,
although excitement sometimes
builds up in solo sections through
subtle dynamic increases
- Starts quietly, fades out at the end
- No big dynamic contrasts,
although excitement sometimes
builds up in solo sections through
subtle dynamic increases
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