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Summary:

The DVD incorporates Columbia staff photographer Don Hunstein's black-and-white still photography of the studio sessions, the voice of Miles at the sessions, and excerpts of radio interviews with Evans and Adderley. There are interviews with David Amram, the late Ed Bradley, Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb, Bill Cosby, Herbie Hancock (who demonstrates "So what" at he the piano), funk-rocker Me'Shell Ndegeocello, hip-hop's Q-Tip, Carlos Santana, John Scofield, Horace Silver, and many others. It also unearths the group's entire 26 minute in-session appearance on "Robert Herridge Theatre: The sound of Miles Davis, " a CBS television program recorded in 1959 and broadcast in 1960. The documentary was produced by Nell Mulderry, directed by Chris Lenz, edited by Paul Rachman, co-produced by Ashley Kahn, and written by Michael Cuscuna.
The book includes "Kind of Blue at 50" by Francis Davis ; "The Last King of America: how Miles Davis invented modernity," by Professor Gerald Early of Washington State University in St. Louis ; and a session-by-session transcript compiled and expounded upon by Ashley Kahn.

Table of Contents:

• CD 1. So what
• Freddie Freeloader
• Blue in green
• All blues
• Flamenco sketches
• Flamenco sketches (alternate take)
• Freddie Freeloader (Studio sequence 1)
• Freddie Freeloader (false start)
• Freddie Freeloader (studio sequence 2)
• So what (studio sequence 1)
• So what (studio sequence 2)
• Blue in green (studio sequence)
• Flamenco sketches (studio sequence 1)
• Flamenco sketches (studio sequence 2)
• All blues (studio sequence).
• CD 2. On Green Dolphin Street
• Fran-dance
• Stella by starlight
• Love for sale
• Fran-dance (alternate take)

• So what.
• Blue colored vinyl sound disc (inserted in sleeve). So what (side A)
• Freddie Freeloader (side A)
• Blue in green (side A)
• All blues (side B)
• Flamenco sketches (side B).

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Author/Creator:

Davis, Miles

Contributors:

Adderley, Cannonball

Coltrane, John, 1926-1967

Kelly, Wynton

Evans, Bill, 1929-1980

Chambers, Paul, 1935-1969

Cobb, Jimmy

Main Work:

Kind of blue [by Davis, M.]

Included Works:

Celebrating a masterpiece

Subjects:

Jazz — 1951-1960

Trumpet music (Jazz)

Jazz musicians — Interviews

Documentary films

1951-1960

Jazz musicians

Jazz

Genres:

Interviews

System Details:

Compact discs ; DVD.

Performers:

Miles Davis, trumpet ; Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, alto saxophone ; John Coltrane, tenor saxophone ; Bill Evans, piano ; Wynton Kelly, piano on "Freddie Freeloader" only ; Paul Chambers, bass ; Jimmy Cobb, drums.

General Notes:

Jazz.
Recorded Mar. 2 and Apr. 22, 1959, at Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City.
DVD titled "Celebrating a masterpiece: Kind of blue."
Issued in slipcase.

Physical Description:

2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc (81 min.) (sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.) + 1 audio disc (analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in.) + 1 book (59 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm) + 1 envelope (6 photographs (b & w ; 8 x 10 in.) ; 1 facsimile of handwritten notes ; 1 booklet (8 unnumbered pages ; 21 x 21 cm)) + 1 poster (folded to 28 x 28 cm)

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; 1.4 m/s

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Call Numbers:

LPCD 124,734- 124,736

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 886973355220
Publisher Number, Legacy: 88697 33552 2

OCLC Numbers:

275169566