Miles Davis
The Making Of "Kind Of Blue"
March 2 & April 22, 1959 
NYC @ Columbia 30th Street Studio 

Track 01: Recording session of Freedie Freeloader,
So What, Blue in Green: 37:45 
Monday, 2nd March 1959 
2:30pm. to 5:30pm. and 7:00pm. to 10:00pm. 
Columbia 30th Street Studio, NYC, USA 

Track 02: Recording session of Flamenco Sketches,
All Blues: 36:03 
Wednesday, 22nd April 1959 
2:30pm. to 5:30pm. 
Columbia 30th Street Studio, NYC, USA 

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Miles Davis (tpt); Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (as); 
John Coltrane (ts); Bill Evans (p); Wynton Kelly (p); 
Paul Chambers (b); Jimmy Cobb (d) 

Freddie Freeloader (M. Davis) (take 1 (fs)) 0:07 
Freddie Freeloader (M. Davis) (take 2 (inc)) 0:53 
Freddie Freeloader (M. Davis) (take 3 (inc)) 1:19 
Freddie Freeloader (M. Davis) (take 4 (fs)) 0:04 
Freddie Freeloader (M. Davis) (take 4) 9:41 
Freddie Freeloader (M. Davis) (piano solo insert (fs)) 0:02 
Freddie Freeloader (M. Davis) (piano solo insert) 1:10 

So What (M. Davis) (take 1 (fs)) 0:04 
So What (M. Davis) (take 1 (inc)) 0:49 
Townsend interrupts with "hold it" at 0:47. 
So What (M. Davis) (take 2 (fs)) 0:20 
So What (M. Davis) (take 2 (inc)) 1:09 
So What (M. Davis) (take 3 (fs)) 0:19 
So What (M. Davis) (take 3 (fs)) 0:09 
So What (M. Davis) (take 3 (fs)) 0:14 
So What (M. Davis) (take 3) 9:28 

Faded slowly on CK 64935; more quickly on most other versions. 

Blue in Green (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 1 (inc)) 0:23 
Blue in Green (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 2 (inc)) 0:43 
Blue in Green (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 3 (fs)) 0:23 
Blue in Green (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 3 (inc)) 2:44 
Blue in Green (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 4 (fs)) 0:07 
At 0:03 Chambers' bass wobbles and Townsend interrupts with "sorry, Paul." 
Blue in Green (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 5) 5:32 

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Additional 2:37 of Studio Chatter 

Miles Davis (tpt); Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (as); 
John Coltrane (ts); Bill Evans (p); Paul Chambers (b); 
Jimmy Cobb (d) 

Flamenco Sketches (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 1) 9:33 
Flamenco Sketches (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 2 (inc)) 0:41 
Flamenco Sketches (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 3 (inc)) 0:27 
Flamenco Sketches (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 4 (inc)) 1:26 
Flamenco Sketches (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 5 (inc)) 0:38 
Flamenco Sketches (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 6) 9:26 
All Blues (M. Davis) (take 1 (fs)) 0:03 
All Blues (M. Davis) (take 1) 11:51 
Edited (3:03) on Columbia 42057; faded out on all issued versions. 

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In the spring of 1959, seven musicians hot 
togehter in a converted church on 30th Street in 
Manhattan and made jazz histroy. Over forty years 
have passed since Lies Davis assembled his famed 
sextet ro record Kind Of Blue,and in that time the 
album has risen to the level of masterpiece. 

Still selling over 5,000 copies a week, It is considered 
the bible by many musicians and revered as 
one of the most important alvund od the century. 
How did an effort that allit's participant dismiss as 
just another dark day at the studio become a musical 
amd cultural landmark? 

Another tranks of Kind Of Ble give listeners the 
unprecendented opportunity to enter the 30th Street 
studio and witness the creattion of this remarkable 
album.