Blue in Green
Blue in Green is a jazz composition by Miles Davis from 1959. It was first released on the album Kind of Blue and has become the jazz standard . Marian McPartland reported in an interview that Bill Evans had mentioned to her that the piece was his, which the chords would also suggest.
The composition
Blue in Green is a ballad . The melody of Blue in Green is very modal , incorporating Doric , Mixolydian and Lydian modes. The ten-bar melody with a four-bar intro "has a circularly recurring form and is played by the soloists with an irritatingly open temporal accentuation." was varied within the metric specifications. "
It has been speculated that pianist Bill Evans wrote the piece Blue in Green , although only Davis is named as composer on the album Kind of Blue , the publishing house Musical Frontiers and in most jazz fakebooks . In his autobiography, Davis claims that he alone composed the pieces on Kind of Blue. Evans confirmed this in the liner notes for Kind of Blue : “Miles only came up with the guidelines a few hours before the studio session. He came with a few sketches under his arm that told the band what to play. "
The melody is attributed to Davis and Evans on the album Portrait in Jazz , which Bill Evans recorded in 1959. Earl Zindars claimed in an interview with Win Hinkle that Blue in Green was written by Bill Evans alone. In a 1978 radio interview with Marian Mc Partland, Evans claimed he wrote the song.
Even before the Kind of Blue recordings, Evans played in December 1958 or January 1959 for Chet Baker's album Chet an introduction to the jazz standard Alone Together , which is compared to his playing from Blue in Green on Kind of Blue .
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Blue in Green quickly became “the secret type of pensive romantics, for whom the refrainless form gave opportunities for extensive improvisational excursions”. In the same year Bill Evans recorded the song with his trio on the album Portrait in Jazz . Recordings by John McLaughlin , Gary Burton , Charlie Haden and JJ Johnson helped establish the piece as a ballad. Singers such as Al Jarreau and Cassandra Wilson (1985), who developed their own text, have also interpreted the piece. Jazz fusion guitarist Lee Ritenour recorded the piece for his 2005 album Overtime .
reception
Thomas Ward wrote on allmusic: “'Blue in Green' is probably the most beautiful piece of music on Kind of Blue. The ensemble's playing reaches a new dimension of subtlety and transcendence, and the piece benefits from the introduction of pianist Bill Evans, one of Miles Davis' greatest contributors. ”( Author: Thomas Ward : Source: Review of the song by Thomas Ward )
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Schaal (Ed.): Jazz standards. The encyclopedia. 3rd, revised edition. Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1414-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ It's the third piece on Kind of Blue and the only ballad besides Flamenco Sketches . It was first recorded at Columbia Records 30th Street Studio in New York City on March 2, 1959 with Cannonball Adderley , John Coltrane , Bill Evans, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb .
- ↑ McPartland in an interview in Jazzthing January 2012, no. 92
- ↑ a b H.-J. Schaal Jazz-Standards , p. 69
- ↑ cit. n. H.-J. Schaal Jazz-Standards , p. 69
- ↑ Interview with Earl Zinders in Letters from Evans, page 20 (PDF file; 18.6 MB)
- ↑ Interview by Bill Evans with Marian McPartland on November 6, 1978, at 35:27 min.
- ↑ G.Org: A New Kind of Blue (2004). Retrieved May 10, 2013 .
- ^ Review of the album Overtime at allmusic