#milesdavis #sowhat Miles Davis - So What / Jimmy Cobb Drum Transcription / Miles Davis Solo Comping

August 17, 1959 (studio, Columbia CL 1355) Miles Davis, trumpet John Coltrane, tenor saxophone Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, alto saxophone Bill Evans, piano Paul Chambers, bass Jimmy Cobb, drums In the history of jazz music, the best-selling jazz album is “Kind of Blue” by Miles Davis. Davis is the most important jazz musician in the 20th century. “Kind of Blue; is the largest selling jazz album of all the time-released in 1959. “Miles helped bring about a new creative synthesis of modern and vernacular expressions that greatly changed our perceptions of what American music was and could be.“ Since the “Kind of Blue” album is not only an important resource to understand modal jazz and cool jazz, but also a great example to understand how jazz musicians communicate and play from improvisation. Davis made a great success because not only he was. The improvisation means that activity of creating or doing something without preparation, spontaneous activity reorganizatio