Jazz Articles

g.org: A New Kind Of Blue

by Mark Sabbatini
August 26, 2004

g.org A New Kind Of Blue A Nest Of Eggs 2004

It takes balls to say you're going to redo Kind Of Blue.

Producer Gary Guthrie puts his panache on display with A New Kind Of Blue , calling it a “what-if" album made possible by the modern age. Among the hypotheticals: What if the original players had 70 minutes for the recording instead of the 40 minutes LPs were limited to; ...

G.Org: A New Kind of Blue

by John Kelman
July 3, 2004

Paying homage can be risky business, especially when the source is as seminal as Miles Davis' classic Kind of Blue. Comparisons are not just begged, they're expected. And how can anyone hope to capture the same magic? Or the confluence of events that put Davis, Julian “Cannonball" Adderley, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb together to create one of the greatest jazz albums of all time, an album that changed the face of music and ...