All Blues - Miles Davis - Revision
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- All Blues - Miles Davis
- Recorded in 1959 in 3 session in New York
- Early example of stereo recording
- Instruments
- The group was a sextet - Miles Davis - Harmon muted Trumpet
- Alto and Tenor Saxes playing an accompaniment riff (comping) in 3rds
- Snare with brushes and cymbal, plays a steady beat and keeps the rhythm
- Double bass played pizzicato
- Piano plays riffs
- Trumpet, both saxes and the piano have a solo (head)
- Tonality and Harmony
- 12 bar blues (progression of chords normally I,IV,V - Miles Davis changes it).
- Chords with added 7ths and 9ths
- Modal Jazz - jazz scales have flattened, chromatic 'blue' notes typically on 3rd and 7th notes)
- Altered chords
- This is actually the mixolydian mode on G
- Style of Performance
- Improvised - the score is transcribed from the recording
- Swung rhythms (especially quavers)
- Metre and Rhythm
- 6/4
- Jazz Waltz
- Moderate pace
- Structure
- Based on the 12 bar blues chord pattern
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