All Blues - Miles Davis 1959
FACT SHEET
GCSE Music: AoS3 Popular Music
All Blues is from the album
Kind of Blue.
Here is the line up for the
album:
Miles Davis - Trumpet
Julian Cannonball
Adderley - Alto Sax
John Coltrane - Tenor
Sax
Bill Evans - Piano
Paul Chambers - Bass
Jimmy Cobb - Drums
Piano Trill in the Intro
In this album, Miles Davis wanted
to explore the concept of
MODAL JAZZ.
He felt that soloists were
becoming too restricted to playing
over chord changes. He felt that
by giving the a MODE to improvise
around that this would lead to
longer, freer improvisations. The
result is that modal jazz songs
are significantly longer.
Sturcture
All Blues - Miles Davis
All Blues is based on the 12 Bar Blues Chord Progression
G7
G7
G7
G7
C7
C7
G7
G7
D7
Eb7#9
D7#9
G7
G7
Key Words
Changes - The chord sequence in a jazz song
Head - The main melody of a jazz song, generally played at the beginning of a
song
Modal Jazz - a jazz style in which the soloists base their solos on modes
instead of chord changes
Comping - an abbreviation of Accompanying
Frontline - the solo instruments in a jazz ensemble
Extended Chord - a chord in which the diatonic notes other than a 7th have
been added.
Altered Chord - a chord in which one of the notes has been sharpened or
flattened to become a different note.
Sax Riff
