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In a Silent Way by Miles Davis is probably my favourite album that I've discovered so far through the generator. I didn't fall for this quite as hard (at least on first listen), but it did confirm that I might well be a Miles Davis fan. Who knew? Not me.
Many different vibes. Great solos. Love how the trumpet really sings.
2/5 Favorite Song: Darn That Dream
c'est bien mais ptn les transitions entre les sons sont cata, sinon en no brain à écouter c'est chill
Chillaxinjazzin Would go crazy if I had a book and wasn't on a bus
cant go wrong with a bit of jazz, good vibes and great mood. reminded me of the Sam and max soundtrack, i enjoyed chilling to it :))
I'm obviously an idiot because no matter how much I listen to Miles Davis, no matter how much I try and appreciate, it all turns into background music. I get that this is genius, but I just can't 'get' it. Sorry Miles.
Not really my type of jazz, just seems like it doesn't go anywhere or move me
Completely inoffensive, nice background jazz. Can't compare to an album that makes me feel something though 6.5 / 10
Good background music for cooking or a dinner party. Can’t say that it’s my favorite jazz record ever, and I’d be rating on just the name alone if I gave it higher than a 3/5. But a good record.
I’m going to give this a review… because, while I was listening to it, I wasn’t having one of my best days! And this is something you really need to listen to in a quiet, relaxed setting—probably with a glass of whiskey or a good red wine! Hey, this might be a huge cliché, but I challenge anyone to listen to this without picturing a very Hollywood-esque scene—like Philip Marlowe, a smoke-filled bar, and a good bourbon thrown in! Come on, I challenge anyone… and I’m not American, nor do I want to be, mind you :-)
🎷🎶🥰
Miles will forever be cool - but he has better groundbreaking albums
fun jazz album, but im not the biggest jazz head
the birth of cool is right
Cool Jazz beginner album, classic. Moon Dream make me in tears, don't know why,it's gorgeous.
Had a couple songs I really liked, namely ‘Moondreams’ ‘Venus de Milo’ and ‘Godchild’ I’m really not that big into jazz and usually enjoy a more softer melody when I am listening to it, so the trumpet can be too loud for me at times. Still the record is bright and fun, I enjoyed having it in the background while making lunch!
This isn't kind of blue, it's disjointed by comparison due to it being a compilation across many years but it's still good music but not a great album
JAAAAAZZZZZ
Way too much trumpet for me. I felt like I was listening to skits supporting a sitcom from yesteryear. Technically, I'm sure this is impressive, but if a guitarist started soloing from the beginning to the end of song, it would be awful. I get the same vibe here.
12 songs WOO-OOH MAMA!!! Now this, THIS is Club Penguin coffee shop music! Yes, sir, indeed! Nothing else compares! Smooth like butter, a sonic taste most sublime! Top 3 Club Penguin soundtracks right here!
This compilation brings together the groundbreaking 1949–1950 studio sessions alongside rare live radio broadcasts, showcasing the legendary nine-piece band's meticulous, relaxed arrangements that departed from the frantic energy of bebop. Boasting improved remastering that highlights the intricate tonal balances of the ensemble, it stands as an essential, deeply influential masterpiece for any jazz collection.
Very accessible and listenable, early Miles
Miles leads a big band toward bebop..he wasn't ahead of his time, but he was right on time.
Perfect classy background music, an incredibly talented man. Beautiful jazz, felt like I was in a jazz bar or something. It was a really pleasant listen, great relaxing jazz
I'm not a huge jazz fan but this may truly be the birth of the cool. Last song very slow and very 50's vibe, the only song with vocals. Brought it all down a little for me. Oh, lighten up, one song you don't like can't completely ruin an album.
ah jazz I simply do not connect with you I believe that once you were an innovative sound radically different from other music around. but now you have become elevator music back ground music for a waiting room you all sound the same to me 3/5
Dude needs to learn how to break his songs up
To jest album którego mi brakowało, chce mieć z tego płytę winylową i wieczorem grać w simsy pić wino i słuchać Miles’a
7/1001 Longe de ser o seu melhor trabalho mas é uma ótima porta de entrada para o gênero Move - 80 Jeru - 80 Moon Dreams - 75 Venus De Milo - 80 Budo - 75 Deception - 75 Godchild - 75 Boplicity - 80 Rocker - 75 Israel - 75 Rouge - 75 Media: 76.8
Fun and jazzy, not as weird as I would have liked
A little underwhelming overall but still a nice listen
A good jazz album. A great album title.
Tasteful
Some of the most talented musicians ever playing on this album. Front to back enjoyable and so consistently impressive. Not much to say other than damn.
I don’t often boost an album just because it’s historically significant. But in this case, this album is both the fulfillment of bebop and the departure. And it’s so fucking enjoyable. Each listen I notice new textures and moods. The dynamics tell many stories. And it’s fun to hear Miles soloing in his desired setting. This is a lifelong listener
I wish I liked this more. I can tell the musicians are talented, but I just wasn’t moved. The funny thing is after the album finished a song (It Never Entered My Mind) by the Mikes Davis Quintet came on that I liked a lot better.
I feel like a poseur liking this album so much but that's not a reason not to like it.
There's nothing about this that I don't like. It's clearly great music. I saved it to my library. It doesn't affect me nearly as profoundly as it is supposed to, according to Objective Truths About Music.
One of the first jazz albums I ever bought, a direct result of Mizzou's Jazz, Pop, & Rock class that was required curriculum for music nerds. It's been a staple ever since, though my jazz qualifications are questionable at best.
Legendary. Honestly such a masterpiece and a lesson in impressive music. As someone who plays multiple instruments, I'm a bit in awe of this
Vibes
Smooth jazz
Not my kind of music I think. Nice background sound.
I've listened to quite a bit of jazz before but it has been a while since I last sat down and listened to an album. I for example, haven't listened to Davis' earlier records. The style seems a lot shorter and more upbeat than his later bluesy works which I am more familiar with.
I don't feel like I have the familiarity to really appreciate this style of music. Pleasant to listen to, but not deeply engaging.
THaNK GOD we started off good, I listened to this on my own a little over a year ago and it has to be including as one of my favourites from Miles' discography. (Thanks in part to my lovely king Gerry Mulligan) I remember transcribing Jeru and a couple other lines from this album way back then. It is cool jazz so easy on the ears compared to the avant-garde stuff that I blast while playing plastic trumpet in the shower Two 10s on this album and it never really drops in quality. Well I'm showing these to my friends so guess its time to actually write real reviews (Hi Eugene) I still think this project is better than Bags' Groove (And tpab). Bishop gotta listen to some more jazz this is overground twin ✌
Best Track - "Moon Dreams"
All is well when Miles Davis blows through your speakers.
Man I love jazz and Mile's is the master. It might not be his Magnum opus, but it is still damn good. My only complaint is that a lot of the songs are short and I think they could have benefitted by giving them more room to breathe. Makes me wonder why I don't listen to jazz more often. Favorite Track - Move Least Favorite Track - Moon Dreams ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Jazz is not the type of music that I would actively seek out, so in that regard, listening to this album is precisely the sort of experience I am looking for by working through these 1001 albums. Aside from vocal jazz (such as Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald), I have yet to find a jazz album that has truly blown my socks off - and this record continues that run. "Birth Of The Cool" is a compilation album that brings together tracks originally recorded over three sessions in 1949 and 1950, initially released in the 10-inch 78-rpm format. Because of this, the tracks are all brief, lasting around three minutes each. While it is a pleasant enough listen, it does not stir the soul or really engage me in any meaningful way. Three stars. Side one 1 "Move" (3/5) 2 "Jeru" (3/5) 3 "Moon Dreams" (3/5) 4 "Venus De Milo" (3/5) 5 "Budo" (3/5) 6 "Deception" (3/5) Side two 1 "Godchild" (3/5) 2 "Boplicity" (3/5) 3 "Rocker" (3/5) 4 "Israel" (3/5) 5 "Rouge" (3/5) 6 "Darn That Dream" (3/5) Total - 36 Average - 3 361/1001 192/361 albums reviewed were new to me.
Why can't they just play the right notes?
This is good but it's almost weird to hear and compare to Kind of Blue. It's earlier which makes sense. I enjoyed deception.
A good listen. It just didn't dig deep into my gut and brain like his other albums on the list.
It’s the perfect chill album to enjoy in a Sunday rainy day
That was pretty cool. How does he sing snd play the trumpet at the same time?
Great but so many better miles Davis albums
Eh bah, je me fais chier. Peut-être que je n’aime pas ce bon vieux miles C’est jamais désagréable pour autant, les mélodies me plaisent même plutôt 6/10
This was very cool background music to the morning but since I'm not a jazz guy everything kind of bled together at some point and then it ended. Was great though and probably deserves a more serious listen
God Miles is so cool.
Would be 5 if I liked jazz more
Birth of the Corny. Wish the compilers of the list would limit each artist to one album maximum, for Miles maybe 2, and this shouldn't be one of them.
I just don't know enough about jazz to talk about it. Like, I know who Miles Davis is, and I know he's GOATed by the community at-large. I did enjoy this, but I could genuinely say the same about any no-name jazz album, really. I'd just put it on and vibe. I will bump this up a little bit because I do love the way old jazz records sound. There's a warmth in the instrument tones and the production, a real working within the limitations of the time that I personally don't feel as much with newer records.
Miles Davis has "Miles" better but this is still decent, first three songs do kind of carry but I enjoyed most of this. Very chill jazz
What a ripper of an album. Tight harmonies, percussion and solo work. Just a fantastic jazz album front to back. At barely half an hour long, great album to throw on while cooking dinner for friends for romantic partner.
My least favorite Miles era, but still brilliant. Haven’t listened to this in a long time, liked it more than I remembered.
Love it
i liked it. good morning background music. i enjoyed it more than "Bitches Brew"
I think I just accidentally listened to the same song 10 times in a row.
The definition of smooth jazz. Thoroughly enjoyed
Enjoyed this
My namesake
I can easily admit that this is a pretty great jazz record, but I think it’s taught me something about the limits of what recorded music I actually enjoy listening to. Birth Of The Cool is, of course, a pretty remarkable achievement when you consider that its recordings date back as far as 1949, and it’s fantastic that recording technology had gotten to the point where we can hear such high-fidelity reproduction of music that old. And being from 1949, this is still relatively ‘grounded’ jazz that doesn’t stray too far from its dance roots, however ambitious it was for the time…you can definitely still bob your head to it! I think my issue is that its heavily improvisational approach loses a lot when recorded, at least for me; the magic of improvisation is in coming up with all this music in the moment, which I think is vastly better appreciated in a live performance, where it’s being created right in front of you. So…as a document of some truly genius-level improvisation & soloing laid over great jazz grooves, this record is fantastic, but I don’t feel it translates to a gut-level ‘entertaining’ record.
Nice
album #79 a very lovely album to listen to. i like how in each song the lead instruments sound like they are singing :) beautifully smooth and majorly influential. thanks for the horns! ಄ favourite track(s): moon dreams, venus de milo ಄ least favourite track(s): (fuck) israel ಄ album rating: ★★★.5☆☆ ಄ number of albums left to review: 1,010 ಄ number of albums from the list that i agree with being on the list: 38 (+1 Birth of The Cool) ಄ albums from the list that I would consider on my list: 16 ಄ albums from the list I won't include on my list: 63
enjoyable
This is a tough one. It's a great album and I really want to give it a 5, but I'm not quite sure it's there. Maybe I'll go back and edit it later, but for now 4.5 rounded down
That’s it… Jazz isn’t for me, i guess. At least purely instrumental jazz. Yes, Davis is an incredibly talented musician. And yes, his music was probably revolutionary back when it was released. But nothing here grips or excites me. It’s nice to put on as background music, but whenever i tried to actively listen to it, my attention would just slip away. So what do i do with this? There are one or two jazz records that i enjoyed more from the list, or at least albums that gripped my attention. I guess compared to them, this is only a two for me.
a really fantastic set of arrangements, recorded very well (certainly for '49-'50!), and with some excellent playing by musicians who would go on to be extremely famous.
Great!
Not my favorite Miles, but still excellent. At times it sounds like background music from a TV show or a very hip cartoon. And not in a bad way.
Weird to rate an obviously 5 star Miles any less, but there's 6 or more that I get way more excited about, so call it my excitation scale.
i like this
it's not bad but not my vibe ig. im not a fan of jazz music
Alors album de trompette, je saurai pas dire si c’est vraiment du « jazz ». Honnêtement pas si dingue, assez plat enfaite, les sons se ressemblent et on dirait des sons d’ascenseur. Ça manque un peu de folie je trouve, on ne ressent pas de virtuosité par Miles Davis. Après forcément c’est plutôt calme donc pas horrible à écouter même si je trouve le tempo un poil rapide pour être mis dans un salon tranquillement, ça sonne comme de la musique de soirée mondaine dans les films sur les années 60, sur une scène c’est pas mal mais un truc aussi plat sur tout un album c’est pas dingue. 1,5
Classic
Enjoyable compilation of early Miles Davis, can't go wrong.
It's fine and listenable. It's not for me to understand what sets this apart from the oceans of jazz. I'm not going to give stars for whatever incumbent cultural cache because it would be dishonest. The album just kind of went by but was an enjoyable listen.
Ya like jazz
So influential. How can you not appreciate this?
Jazz typically not my go to listen. Overall sounded good and was an listen through.
First listen
3/4
Jazz
Soooooo cool
Not a jazz fan, but you've got to like this...
I think the title says it all.
Jeg kan ikke nok om jazz til å si at dette var grensesprengende i 1949-50, men til mine utrente ører, er det egentlig bare Moon Dreams som høres ut som den kom fra fremtiden. Men enten musikken er grensesprengende eller ikke, så er det fornøyelig knipsejazz. Få med en pakke sigg og en flaske rødvin, så kan det pimpes til langt utpå natta. Sval firer.
Liker alle platene jeg har hørt av Miles Davis så langt. Viber med denne også, men syns den høres ut som mye annen jazz. Kanskje fordi Miles Davis var pasient zero for alt som høres slik ut?
There's some good ones on here, but man are there some snoozers. A few tracks on here felt like I was watching one of those 1950s PSAs that explained puberty and dating to 15 year olds. I had another Miles Davis album last week, In A Silent Way, that knocked my socks off. I feel like the shorter song length didn't give the artists enough time to spread their legs and explore.
Ок, знаю цього мужчину. Цей альбом не чув. Це приємний і стабільний джаз, не експериментальний.
Interesting. I'm knew that he started with Charlie Parker playing Bebop and his style grew to be instrumental in the development of Fusion, but my first knowledge of his music starts with Kind of Blue. This is not there yet and is basically Post-Bop. It is really good and you can hear where he eventually went.
Cool but not my style yet
For what it’s worth, my oldest kid is named Miles. He wasn’t named after Miles Davis, but Miles Davis did come up a bunch when we were discussing the name, and we were totally okay with people maybe making that association. Personally, I prefer the directions Miles Davis went on to pursue more than his earlier works, but this is still good. I don’t really have the vocabulary to talk about jazz but I find that with a lot of jazz from this era, it works best for me as background music, but this has the fire in it that is more rewarding as an active listen.
This hits
After putting this album on, every once in a while a track would come on that pricked up my ear and piqued my curiosity. It was inevitably the Thelonious Monk or Bill Evans song that Youtube had served up to me after the album ended.
For me just the perfect early morning Saturday listen. Wake up early, get some stretching and cardio, turn this on and do some dishes, slap some laundry in and melt into your couch.
What's cooler than being cool? Other than being kind of blue, of course…
An album I wish I could have been alive to hear when it came out.
My very first album! I wasn't particularly *moved* by the songs since this isn't the type of music that I can really get into, but I still really enjoyed my time regardless! Talented artist. Lovely music and a relaxing vibrant atmosphere.
Love this. Cool jazz. Good stuff.
Legendary! What can I say? It’s Mikes Davis and it is absolutely amazing. I don’t love Darn That Dream just because I don’t love that style of vocal jazz but that’s a quibble. 9.5/10
I listened to this very famous album a while back because I understood it to be a big deal in the history of jazz, particularly cool jazz, and ... I'm an insufficiently sophisticated listener to really get what's so great about it. To me, it sounds like something that falls somewhere between swing and the radically modernist upstart that pushed swing out of its central position, bebop. Recorded in 1949-50, with nine piece ensembles, that tracks, even if it oversimplifies. To me, it doesn't sound very much like cool jazz as I understand it from the late 50s and 60s. The presence of Gil Evans and Gunther Schuller seems significant to me -- this to my ears has more to do with the more composed forms of jazz that I associate with those two. Soundtrack-style music rather than improvisation-based playing. I've kept the album going on repeat all morning, listening but not closely ... it's enjoyable; the excellent musicians who play on it sound excellent. I like the lyrical, extended lines I hear at points. But I'm just not equipped to appreciate what's so amazing about this album. .
Listening to it for the first time in many years, I still enjoy this moment in Miles' career. I find his melodies hard to pick up, though they make their own sense as the flow by--and that's an enjoyable relationship, as a listener. I enjoy being juked by the master, just as I enjoy surprising turns in a conversation. As I listen, I wonder--how much music theory did his early listeners have? How much familiarity with the blues, or with ragtime, or with Rachmaninov? I imagine that those folks were generally more aware of those histories than adults in today's America, where music education was defunded over a generation ago. As a young person, I fancied myself an intellectual, so of course I listened to jazz. I had Bitches Brew on my turntable throughout the last two years of college--but also the Birth of the Cool. Miles was apparently a passionate man whose passions leaned into the dark alleys of the male psyche of his day. Interesting that it's dressed up nice here. Bitches Brew was on my turntable regularly
Absolutely unsure how to rate this. Obviously these are masters at work on so many levels. But I don't really know how to assess their work. I feel like lumping this in with all the other threes is wrong on some grand scale of musical excellence, but on a personal level that's where it belongs for me. I enjoyed this and would not turn it off if it were playing. But I didn't connect with it much at all. Maybe I'm more of a hot jazz person after all.
Definitely cool 😎. I love jazz, so this was right up my alley.
NYC kind of jazz
Alright.
That was jazz right ? I got to listen to it once only, only back from school. So not that much listening... But it do was good, but background good yk ? Like, I don't think I could listen to it actively ? But as jazz background, it sounder very good.
He really is a cool guy
Great Album. I haven’t listened a Jazz album until today, but i always wanted because i love whiplash, the movie from jk simmons and milles teller, and i didn’t know how to start listening to jazz, and this election from the page came to me at a perfect time. In general, its pretty solid with the jazz sound, i like the vibe that transmits, but the song that i loved its the last one, Darn That Dream, specially because its the only one with voice.
Really enjoyed listening to it!!
Really enjoyed it. Great background music.
I thought I wasn't a fan of Miles Davis, I listened to a couple of his other albums and they were too high energy and stressful for me, but this is right down my Alley of upbeat but steady jazz
Pass the epidural and sign me up.
I’m quite intimidated by Miles Davis. I don’t know if I give him my stars willingly or he takes them by force.
Jazz but chill and not weird. Has a song called Israel
I normally enjoy high-tempo rock and punk music, which in a sense could be seen as the opposite of this. I have also tried to listen to jazz before, but it has never stuck. I know that Miles Davis is a legend, and the thing with this album is that the high tempo actually fits my taste a lot better than the slower ones I may have been listening to earlier.
I like jazz
8/10
A jazzy little number, quite a bit of pep in this one a good background listen and I liked pretty much every song apart from ‘moon dream’. It’s a classic jazz album by one of the greats but not one my favourite jazz albums, ‘Boplicity’ was a standout for me.
Doesn't feel like his best, but still enjoyable listen
5 - but you gotta be in the mood for it.
as a musician, always heard about how talented and revered jazz musicians are. but let's be frank, this shit is boring. Yea they can noodle for days over complex chord progressions, but where's the hook, the melody, the harmony, or anything memorable? Snoozefest.
I know the historical significance of this album. It's a great listen, but I would like it in a dimly lit bar if I was going to revisit
1/10 - obligatory fuck this guy for having a song called shitrael, stain on his legacy
Just like the last time I got Miles Davis a couple days ago, this is great, love it in the background, I won’t listen to it very often outside of that context. 7.5/10
35 minutes of jazz perfection. I loved "Moon Dream."
Faudrait que quelqu'un d'intelligent m'explique je pense.
The biggest issue with this project is that it's too short. I've recently started to listen to a lot of jazz and Miles Davis is definitely one of my favorite artists. His music is just so effortless.
Fine but not my thing
Very cool
I mean, yeah. It's pretty standard jazz. I've never heard anything by Miles Davis I actively disliked, and that's no exception here. But I'm surprised that this is one of the four on the list. I don't feel it's nearly as noteworthy as the other three (In A Silent Way, Kind of Blue, Bitches Brew) and I'd rather have it swapped out with something like...I dunno, Get Up With It? Or maybe that Agharta live album? That'd be nice.
Super enjoyable & easy to like, even if you aren't into jazz
Made me say oouuu, so many times. Feel like a detective in a bar at night.
Ta bien, me dió un poco de noni pero no está mal. Está bueno para tocarlo más que escucharlo. Sape
Cool.
So influential it’s a struggle to hear this with fresh ears, but if you want to try, focus on how intimate this sounds, even with a nine-piece band, and then you’ll start to hear the unique brilliance that’s still potent in these tracks, and why it still stands on its on feet even compared to where these artists grew from here.
A gem, terrific, in my opinion best in class; stands the test of time & delivers a most delightful jazz experience.
Miles Davis was at the forefront of changing the direction of jazz during his career. Birth Of The Cool was the first big shift…chamber jazz. In the coming years, he lead jazz into hard bop, orchestral jazz, modal jazz, electric jazz and rock/funk jazz. It all blows me away.
Feel like the album is a conversation in itself. just not in the mood for jazz atm but nonetheless magnifique
Mr. Baby enjoyed this one. Not terribly memorable, but melodious and a good background album for cooking.
The title says it all.
Havent listened to anything like this before. Loved it perfect for dinner parties. Was a bit hectic when trying to cook and it wasn't going exactly to plan though.
Incredibly easy listening and equally as enthralling
Bien.
I guess I'm not cool. I see my lack of enthusiasm for modern jazz as something of a failure of taste on my part. I like Dixieland, swing and some bebop but refuse modern jazz except where fused with hip hop.
Great album.
Great musicians. Still not a jazz fan
Situational. Time and place. Tilling a garden, maybe not one of them hahah.
I'm not evolved enough, this jazz sounds like other jazz
The first that got better and greater with each album.
Cool
Well, it is. This is a great album, a must for Jazz enthusiasts.
Sounds like jazz to me. If I were smarter, maybe it'd blow me away, but I am dumb, so it just sounds like jazz. Prefer Bitches Brew or Kind of Blue, really.
Quite fun. Very cool indeed
I like this a good bit. Didn’t really move me but I’m not a jazz guy.
Not gonna lie, I can't get my brain around bop, so even thought the talent on this disc is immeasurable, the final product doesn't really resonate with me. Split decison then.
Great background jazz. Isn't leaving a holy-cow impact, but it sounds excellent.
Benchmark. All time classic of new jazz, the beginning of something different. Personally I'm a huge fan of "Bitches Brew" but this record is amazing as well.
goede vitaminen
EXCELLENT Jazz album
4 stars
Like jazzy
The best
The nerdiest geek on the lamest 90s B-Grade teen comedy would be cooler than this. Trumpets and jazz? No thanks.
50s jazz and Miles Davis are two of my favorites. Easy 5 stars.
Not for me
Embarrassingly I went to jazz school and haven’t listened to this album!
Stefnulaus jazz, finnst mér.
I have no right to review Jazz. I enjoy listening to it but I don't know the difference between Miles Davis, John Coltrane, or Charlie Parker. I liked this though but not as much as another couple of his albums
Best: Move Worst: Darn That Dream Liked songs: 6/11 Light 3 Honestly not much to say about this album. Maybe this is just my inexperience with jazz talking, but it was pretty interesting for the first few songs but the sound quickly got old. It just felt very samey to me the whole time, though there's a decent chance I'm just an idiot who's a big dumb dumb with jazz. Still pretty solid though.
Nomen est omen
C'est un peu comme Picasso avant qu'il se mette à peindre des affaires bizarres.
this is what i call music for locking in
Well I had dodged a bullet for a few blissful jazz free weeks. I knew it couldn't last so here goes. Someone get the wasp and put it in the milk bottle. That's what this sounds like to me. Not as tuneless as the last effort of his but not great. I thought I missed singing on these records until the last song which has tuneless singing to go with the music. A big well deserved 1.
Moon dreams, godchild muy buenas. muy movido para mi gusto de jazz, pero muy buen álbum.
A nice listen. The songs were much shorter than I expected from a jazz album. Jeru, Moon Dream, and Israel were my standouts. 6.6/10
I'd listened to a bit of jazz before this and more because of the list, and I've generally found I don't like it. The notable exception is A Love Supreme, and unfortunately this won't become the second jazz album I like
I am not cray about jazz, but I can definitely see his brilliance and genius.
The average person cannot see music. This album made me immediately visualize colors, primarily blues. Pretty incredible. Love Miles Davis.
Boring
One of the greatest jazz albums in the history of ever with Kind Of Blue the king of all jazz albums!!!!
Yup, it sounds like jazz
Not super groovy but not super noisy. No complaints here.
This album didn’t make me feel much, so a little different from some of his other efforts. Rating: 5/10 Favorite Song: Moon Dreams
I liked it better than the last one
4/5
First time I listened to jazz by choice. It had some fun moments I felt like dancing to. I can understand the appeal it has for some people. It felt like background music in a vintage movie. The songs felt a bit similar but that could just be a me thing. It was nice but I just felt like I should be doing something while listening to it. Favorite songs where Jeru, Boplicity and Rouge. I give it 2.45
A beautiful jazz album, it somehow reminds me of moments from childhood when I used to watch the cartoon Tom and Jerry on an old TV.
Man, 1001 albums really want you to embrace the jazz again good background music you really kept the day moving while I was working at the bar, but there’s nothing really to it. I enjoyed it for what it was background music keep it pushing I don’t know how often I will return to this album, but it was pretty good. Probably the best jazz album I’ve gotten so far.
戴偉士呀，你是那麼的深情
Unrelated to this particular album, I want to say the following: I’m not sure jazz and country should be included in the 1001 albums list. Not because they are unimportant; I like both, and feel both should be well represented in any collection that claims to be a comprehensive music overview. The problem in my view is that there are so few jazz albums on the list. There are around 25 by my count (actual real jazz albums, not Steely Dan or Keith Jarrett which somehow this list includes in the jazz genre). That number is large enough to be an irritant to the jazz haters of the world (pretty easy to spot by their reviews) but not nearly enough to pretend to be remotely comprehensive in terms of giving an overview of important jazz albums and artists. I understand the omission of many important early jazz artists (Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker come immediately to mind) since most of their seminal works were issued pre-vinyl LP. But no Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Chick Corea — in fact, very little that could be considered modern jazz, as well more than half of the jazz albums on the list were issued pre-1965. I would advocate either beefing up the number of jazz and country albums the list, presumably at the expense of some of the (IMO) overrepresented electronica (I know, the Gen Z’ers and millennials are going to howl at that suggestion), or else do away with them entirely.
Not into Jazz but I guess it's good?
🤝
Inte helt min typ av jazz, men Miles är var ändå ett världsproffs på den genre jag kanske lyssnar mest på, så det går väl inte att hamna under en fyra.
Nog fan är det cool, men lite för mjukt och städat för min Miles-smak. Man vill att han ska börja hänga med coltrane, sabba rösten och få smak för heroin. Stark 3a i alla fall!
Omlyssningsvärde = högt. Når inte upp till samma höjder som Kind of Blue
Incredible
Not for me Favourite tracks: Moon Dreams
Jazz albums are always hard to rate. For me it needs to do something that stands out. This one really didn’t in a meaningful way
just sad betty davis didn’t make it here but enjoyed this nevertheless
Fluide et mouvementé, on suit le cheminement parfaitement du début à la fin. enchainement 10/10
This album was great. It had variety, short and great rhythms.
Such a great album by a great artist
Cool. Liked the variety, sounded really good, don't really have any complaints. Wish I understood jazz better so I could give a better critique but alas.
have been waiting to listen to this & it did not disappoint. great, mellow listen
As a trumpet player myself you gotta love Miles Davis. His music is very cool. It must have been fun seeing him in the clubs and chilling with the music.
A classic through and through
What a monument of a record. Nearly every song is packed with subtle, understated harmonic, formal, and timbral experiments. It set the pace in jazz music for the next 10 years, until Miles started another revolution with Kind of Blue. And it helped define "cool," which is such a ubiquitous concept now in the Anglophone world it's almost difficult to imagine a time before it existed. This is the ACTUAL oldest album on the list, considering some of these tracks were released as 10" 78 rpm records as early as 1949, which is pretty crazy because it means these songs were recorded before the "album era."
8 days too early...
Busy. Warm. Over far too quickly.
I'm totally new to jazz but open to exploring it. Honestly, I don't mind listening to the tracks, but none of them have really blown me away yet.
Reason this one is a standard.
When this popped up, I was excited being familiar with Miles Davis, but not familiar this album. And honestly let with it got the full weekend, I thought I could savor it. But unfortunately, this one left me with a feeling of meh. This is the hundred-notes-a-run Miles and not the patient, thoughtful one. I'd love to give it above a 3, but I just can't
Explored a lot of jazz in my college years and listened to Miles Davis. I know a few of his other albums with more familiarity such as Kind of Blue and In a Silent Way, but this will be a fun relisten, I think. Yeah definitely that more relaxed style on some of it, all very jazzy. Fun and easy to listen to. Sure is cool. Jazz for me is sometimes a challenge to tell different genres as someone who doesn’t play music, but I know I end up liking a lot of the this era of jazz. Like some of the later songs on the first half like Budo and Deception. There’s some fun soloing here. Album kind of grows. The songs seem to get more interesting. Second half starts with a great track. I definitely enjoy listening to this music. I’m not sure how to rate it as it didn’t wow me the way some other jazz records have. I think I’m leaning 4.
Classic big band jazz. Enjoyed the faster numbers but not such a fan of the slower ones
Not really my txpe of music
fav songs: move moon dreams budo boplicity israel cool, sophisticated, elegant 90/100
My rating 4.2
I’m a big jazz fam but this was a great album! Miles Davis is super talented.
With Miles Davis every album marks a new musical direction or innovation, and many of his songs have become standard jazz performance pieces. This album marks the departure from bebop to cool jazz. Great stuff!
Influential and ahead of it’s time, being recorded all the way back in 1949 and 1950, this early work from a loved legend possesses an obvious importance. It didn’t necessarily come off as any of sort of spectacular listen today, but it was still a consistent, enjoyable experience all the same. Davis is both an important figure and true craftsman whom I’ll have mentally earmarked with anticipation for when later works of his appear on this list. 1 listen Favorite Track: Jeru
Expectation: -> Famous Miles Davis. After listening: -> Really good jazz is probably a 3-4 for me. Little hope of reaching a 5. Considering this is the famous Miles Davis from 1957(!), this gets a 4. I will likely use this as a benchmark for evauating any future jazz albums during this project. Track ranking: Jeru Move Godchild Budo Boplicity Venus Rocker Israel Deception Rouge Moon
Jazz is gonna be a tough sell for me. It's good but it blends in to the background.
6/10 Cool Jazz. Listening live probably amazing, as a recording it's nice, nothing more.
It's my first time really listening to jazz. Still a different style for me but it was a good introduction.
Yea snap
Very nice and fun jazz
Solid. A high 3. Gets better the more you listen.
Music to do things to. It’s a bit uninvolved for me to fully get on board with it, but it’s good to have on whilst doing something overtly middle class. In fact, I’m going to get my tagine out the garage. See you later.
beautiful but not for me.
chill maxxing with the prince of jazz
Man I love jazz so much it's unreal. Incredible music for when I'm studying, but also just actively listening to it. Fantastic.
Miles is so cool
It is good, but as with other albums in this genre it all just sort of becomes background to my ears.
Miles is a genius, of course. This is a compilation of songs that ride the line between bebop and cool jazz, showing off tight arrangements and high-speed virtuosic solos from Davis and his horn-heavy nine-piece combo. The only problem I have with these songs is that the arrangements are very short, not letting any of the soloists stretch out to any extent. Still, if you like fast-paced jazz, this is a killer.
fine i dont want to listen to this rn
Undeniably cool.
The background to some of my fave b-&w movies. Really enjoyed this
Old classic times, love the drums. If I had a restaurant on a cruise ship, then this would surely play. Avoided a great mistake of being repeatable, each song has something. Not a daily basis listen, but it is really good.
cool
not that fun
Ha sido toda una experiencia
A-side was a little hit or miss (really disliked Budo) but Moon Dreams and Deception were revelations
I really liked it it had calm calm funky energy.
Had listened to individual songs. It was cool to spend the time to listen to the whole album.
not as good as kind of blue
It's Miles Davis, the man is incapable of making bad music.
If you like instrumental jazz, you'll love this. I have tried over and over to get into it but I just don't dig it. I prefer vocal jazz. I really like Moon Dream a lot. The rest of the songs I just didn't jive with. BUT, you can def appreciate the talent. If you like that kind of thing.
I feel like I'm driving a taxi in NYC at night in the rain and I'm here for it
I get it but I just don't really care for this kind of jazz. Sorry Miles.
Jazzy. Less experimental than some other Miles Davis albums I’ve heard
Pretty good but nothing really stuck with me immediately.
jazz clasico, ta bueno 3/5
good
3 stars for being an icon. Just not all that into Jazz
Cooooool, excelente para poner de fondo mientras cocinas
Another cool guy
yeah it's good. its miles davis of course it's good
It sounded good. But it did not move me. HERE IS MY SCALE: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Essential: One of the greatest albums ever made. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent: A great album I’d happily revisit and recommend. ⭐⭐⭐ Good: Worth hearing. Glad I listened, but not something I’ll return to often. ⭐⭐ Weak: More misses than hits. Probably won’t listen again. ⭐ Bad: A chore to finish. I regret spending the time.
Pas encore atteint l’étape d’écouter du jazz pr le fun si c’est pour pas voir les instruments en vrai dsl
While jazz seems to typically favor the long form play this one has a bunch of “singles” leading to a wonderful sampler of various jazz elements
pleasant. maybe I am a philistine idk
It’s not Kind of Blue, I suppose, but it’s not far behind in terms of quality and influence. 4.5?
top demaize
Eba
Se eu lembrasse metade das músicas seria 5
o quintessencial álbum de jazz dos anos 50. Eu ainda acho que o miles Davis tem pelo menos 4 álbuns melhores do que esse, excelente mesmo assim
Absolute banger, but not quite a 5 as it lacks consistency. 'Moon Dreams' is a genuine masterpiece of composing and arranging, however.
Good album! This is great music for walking around the city. My problem with the album is that the tracks are too short and structured. I’m more of a fan of albums like “Bitches’ Brew” where tracks were given time to build and expand.
A decent jazz record. I feel like I lack the understanding to truly appreciate it as it should be. Also I know it's a compilation record but the tracks really worked together as a whole, but I kind of feel that's just the nature of how the genre sounds to me. Looking forward to the other Miles Davis entries on this list as this was my first one.
Good as you'd expect
It's nice to have on in the background but most jazz just leaves me really cold.
Really feels like being on the cusp of something—one foot in the old and one foot in the new.
Go on miles lad
Great jazz album.
Even better Jazz Fave track: Jeru
Can’t go wrong with some Miles Davis. 3.5/5
Jazz para comer
Incredible musicianship, and Miles’ skill as a bandleader is evident even to a dummy like me. Slow start, but Venus de Milo and all the tracks that follow are just *chef’s kiss*
Rocker
Jazz... Not for me
the most jazz jazz has ever been
3.5/5
Nice
Trop bien trop bien trop bien
It's simply amazing!
5 stars
gostosinho de ouvir mas no momento nao eh muito minha praia