Which Jazz Albums are similar to Kind of Blue


Gents, please advice on picking up some jazz music. I am not so much into classic Jazz sound, but I found Miles Davis' Kind of Blue to be impressive. I would say the same thing to the song "Take Five" by Dave Brubeck.

I have so far sampled "Steps to Heaven", "Someday My Prince Will Come" and "Miles Ahead", but none of them come close to "Kind of Blue", IMHO. Can you point me to similar albums - Miles or others?

Thanks
planckscale

Showing 1 response by jonsher

The same year Davis recorded Kind of Blue he also recorded "Sketches of Spain", and 18 years later, a group of top musicians, some who have been mentioned on this interesting thread, recorded an album with the same feel (and same composition at its root) -

Concierto - Jim Hall

Hall is one of the great jazz guitarists and he's joined by Chet Baker on trumpet, Paul Desmond on alto sax and Ron Carter on bass.

And if you like that, or even if you don't, you should also listen to Hall playing with Bill Evans in Undercurrent.