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Irving Townsend (November 27, 1920 – December 17, 1981) was an American record producer and author. He is most famous for having produced the Miles Davis album Kind of Blue, which is the best-selling jazz album of all time according to the RIAA.
Irving Townsend | Miles Davis Official Site. Position: Producer. Year of Birth: 1920. Years with Miles: 1958-1959. CBS staff producer known more for his work with vocalists and big bands, produced Miles' sessions in the late 1950s, most notably Kind of Blue. Standout Track. Playlist. Pop-up Player. So What. 00:30.
Irving Joseph Townsend Jr. Profile: American Jazz record producer and author. Best know for for having produced the album Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue . Former Jazz bandleader, became an advertising copywriter for Columbia Records , for which he wrote many albums liner notes.
Quiet Nights. (1963) Miles & Monk at Newport. (1964) Quiet Nights is a studio album by the American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, and his fourth album collaboration with arranger and conductor Gil Evans, released in 1963 on Columbia Records, catalogue CL 2106 and CS 8906 in stereo. Recorded mostly at Columbia's 30th Street Studios in Manhattan ...
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Antecedentes
A finales de 1958 Miles Davis conjuntó a uno de las mejores y más prolíficas bandas en el hard bop, su formación estaba integrada por Cannonball Adderley en el saxofón alto, John Coltrane en el saxofón tenor, Wynton Kelly y Bill Evans en los pianos, Paul Chambers (que venía trabajando con Miles desde hacía tiempo) en el contrabajo y Jimmy Cobb en la batería. Su banda tocaba una mezcla de los estándares pop y bebop propios de otros jazzistas reconocidos como Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Di...
Grabación
Kind of Blue fue el resultado de dos sesiones de improvisación a comienzos de la primavera de 1959. El 2 de marzo Miles Davis reunió su sexteto para la grabación en el recién inaugurado 30th Street Studio de la Columbia Records, una iglesia rusa de Manhattan reciclada, de las pistas "So What", "Freddie Freeloader", y "Blue in Green", que componían el primer lado del LP. El 22 de abril se completaron las grabaciones con el registro de las pistas que compondrían el segundo lado del LP,...
Temas 1, 2 y 4 escritos por Miles Davis. Temas 3 y 5 escritos por Miles Davis y Bill Evans (confirmado en el ensayo de Ashley Kahn sobre el álbum). 1. "So What" 2. "Freddie Freeloader" 3. "Blue in Green" 4. "All Blues" 5. "Flamenco Sketches"
Miles Davis – trompetaJulian "Cannonball" Adderley – saxofón alto(no toca en "Blue in Green")John Coltrane – saxofón tenorWynton Kelly – piano(sólo toca en "Freddie Freeloader")Kahn, Ashley (2001), Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, foreword by Cobb, Jimmy, Da Capo Press, USA, ISBN 0-306-81067-0.Blumenthal, Bob (2001), Liner Notes, Miles Davis at Newport 1958, Columbia/Legacy CK85202.Nathan Brackett, Christian Hoard (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Completely Revised and Updated 4th Edition. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-74320-169-8.Beautiful Ballads & Love Songs (Miles Davis album) Black, Brown and Beige (1958 album) Blue Rose (album)
1 de ago. de 2001 · HORWITZ: And you know, A.B., when the record gets at its "moodiest" in this sort of tone poem called "Blue in Green," he follows up immediately, Miles Davis does, with — and Irving Townsend, the ...
