Blue in Green

Blue in Green is a jazz composition by Miles Davis from the year 1959. It was first released on the album Kind of Blue, and has become a jazz standard. Marian McPartland reported in the interview that Bill Evans had mentioned to her, the play was by him, whereupon the chords would indicate.

The composition

Blue in Green is a ballad. The melody of Blue in Green is very modal, incorporating Doric, Lydian Mixolydian and modes. The zehntaktige melody with viertaktigem Intro " has a circularly recurring form and is played by the soloist in irritating open temporal accentuation. " In this way, the listener has the " impression of a continual change of the topic with a constant flow of rhythmic pulse, although actually only was varied within the parametric specifications. "

It has been speculated that pianist Bill Evans Blue in Green wrote the piece, though on the album Kind of Blue, the published publishing Musical Frontiers and in most jazz fakebooks only Davis is known as a composer. In his autobiography, Davis maintains that he alone composed the songs on Kind of Blue. Evans confirmed that in the liner notes to Kind of Blue, " Miles thought the instructions and only a few hours before the studio session from. He came up with a few sketches under his arm, who claimed the band, what they would have to play. "

On the album Portrait in Jazz, the Bill Evans grossed in 1959, the melody Davis and Evans is attributed. Earl Zindars claimed in an interview with Win Hinkle that Blue had been written solely in Green by Bill Evans. In a radio interview in 1978 with Marian Mc Partsland Evans claimed that he had written the song.

Even before the child -of- Blue - recordings played Evans in December 1958 or January 1959 for Chet Baker's album Chet an introduction to the jazz standard Alone Together, which is compared with his game of Blue in Green on Kind of Blue.

Other recordings

Blue in Green quickly became " the secret pensive romantic type, where the refrain loose form were opportunities for long improvisational digressions ". That same year, Bill Evans recorded the song with his trio on the album Portrait in Jazz. Photographs by John McLaughlin, Gary Burton, Charlie Haden and JJ Johnson helped that the piece established as a ballad. Even singers like Al Jarreau and Cassandra Wilson ( 1985), which developed its own text, have interpreted the piece. The jazz fusion guitarist Lee Ritenour recorded the piece for his album of the year 2005 overtime.

Reception

Thomas Ward wrote for allmusic: " " Blue in Green " is probably the most beautiful piece of music on Kind of Blue. The game of the ensemble to a new level of subtlety and transcendence, and the piece benefits from the introduction of the pianist Bill Evans, one of the largest contributors of Miles Davis " (Author: Thomas Ward: Source: Review of Song of Thomas Ward).