Bacchus Tunes

1. So What
2. Freddie Freeloader
3. Blue In Green
4. All Blues
5. Flamenco Sketches
6. Flamenco Sketches (Alternate Take)

商品の説明

Amazon.co.jp
50年代末、それまでジャズの中心的なスタイルだったハードバップが、先鋭な発想をもったミュージシャンには飽き足らないものと映るようになっていた。そこでマイルス・ディヴィスは、煮詰まった音楽の一新を計るべく、ジャズの演奏原理に「モード」と呼ばれる新しい音楽理念を導入した。そのときに作ったのがこのアルバムである。
発売と同時に大きな反響を呼んだこの演奏は、新時代のジャズとして、60年代のジャズシーンを主導する重要な歴史的役割を果たした。またこの作品は、ジャズファンだけでなく幅広い層から長期にわたって支持されたこともあって、ジャズアルバムでは異例ともいえるセールス枚数を記録している。
綿密に構成された内容は、それまでのジャズのイメージを変える斬新なものだ。（後藤雅洋）

Amazon.com essential recording
This is the one jazz record owned by people who don't listen to jazz, and with good reason. The band itself is extraordinary (proof of Miles Davis's masterful casting skills, if not of God's existence), listing John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley on saxophones, Bill Evans (or, on "Freddie Freeloader," Wynton Kelly) on piano, and the crack rhythm unit of Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums. Coltrane's astringency on tenor is counterpoised to Adderley's funky self on alto, with Davis moderating between them as Bill Evans conjures up a still lake of sound on which they walk. Meanwhile, the rhythm partnership of Cobb and Chambers is prepared to click off time until eternity. It was the key recording of what became modal jazz, a music free of the fixed harmonies and forms of pop songs. In Davis's men's hands it was a weightless music, but one that refused to fade into the background. In retrospect every note seems perfect, and each piece moves inexorably towards its destiny. --John Szwed

From Amazon.co.uk
This is the one jazz record owned by people who don't listen to jazz, and with good reason. The band itself is extraordinary (proof of Miles Davis's masterful casting skills, if not of God's existence), listing John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley on saxophones, Bill Evans (or, on "Freddie Freeloader", Wynton Kelly) on piano, and the crack rhythm unit of Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums. Coltrane's astringency on tenor is counterpoised to Adderley's funky self on alto, with Davis moderating between them as Bill Evans conjures up a still lake of sound on which they walk. Meanwhile, the rhythm partnership of Cobb and Chambers is prepared to click off time until eternity. It was the key recording of what became modal jazz, a music free of the fixed harmonies and forms of pop songs. In Davis's men's hands it was a weightless music, but one that refused to fade into the background. In retrospect every note seems perfect, and each piece moves inexorably towards its destiny. --John Szwed