• S5.E11: Kind of Blue, with Listener Jonathan

  • Apr 18 2024
  • Length: 50 mins
  • Podcast
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S5.E11: Kind of Blue, with Listener Jonathan

  • Summary

  • Listener Jonathan returns to the podcast (as all Supporters are welcome to do) to take an in-depth review of perhaps the most influential jazz album of all time: Miles Davis’s 1959 masterpiece “Kind of Blue.”

    • What’s the story?
    • What makes this recording so groundbreaking and so influential?
    • What is modal music?
    • What does the track-by-track analysis reveal?
    • What are the connections to yacht rock?
    • Why were so many yacht rockers so enamored with the jazz convention?
    • How does all of this lead to Steely Dan (in more ways than one!)


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    References and Related:

    • ⁠⁠Playlist of songs featured on Out of the Main⁠⁠
    • John’s Spotify Yacht Rock Playlist⁠⁠
    • ⁠⁠Tom’s Spotify Yacht Rock Playlist⁠⁠⁠⁠
    • Intro/outro: Stock Music “We’re Here” composed by John H. Nixon (BMI)


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