Miles' "Blue in Green" takes me a million miles away?

 After I wrote this title, I reminded it was Bill EVANS wrote this tune.... 

The thing motivated me for practicing contrabass...

I played Japanese songs and my own compositions as solo work for Youtube videos, but there are many other melodies that I  like ... One of my motivations for practicing the double bass was to play my favorite melodies  from around the world on this instrument .... As a first step, I played this tune.

I like the overall sound and atmosphere of this tune, but at the same time, the harmony or mode or "progression" of this tune is very well done...one of the model tune for me. It is not like "So What" or Coltrane's "Impressions" where there is a simple and clear changement between A and B in the AABA form. When we think of this tune in units of 4 bars, we can see that there are small changement in each 2 bars. (It's a 10-measure tune, so there are two bars extras...) There is only one note changement (a tonal point of view). However, that one note takes an important role for changing the color. It is interesting  for me this choice for harmony or the mode....

As for the playing style, I tried not to be jazzy. I tried to play it in a baroque 2-beat type, not in a swinging or jazz ballad style (I played baroque music ). The baroque's feeling to make an overall rhythmic flow with a series of beat-by-beat changes in nuance is very useful because of wide applicability once we get  it.

By the way, The album "Kind of Blue" which is available on Spotify.

I was greatly inspired by the atmosphere of the overall sound texture of this album.... Before the content of the music, the sound itself already has a world...? It gives me a sense of something beyond( or behind? ) the sound coming out from the speakers, like a sign or a intuition....

Also the " 〜ING "  series.

This album and one of the " ~ing " series of albums "Workin' " influenced me in terms of "sound texture" rather than musical content. Even if These  have different sound texture.

I found Spotify version distorted in places. I think the CD album version sounded cleaner, I don't know...

Sound texture that can make us feel something ... I wrote about this a lot when I wrote about "Manipulated Dreams," the soundtrack album for the japanese indie film "Dream manipulator MUGEN". 

Even if the music I create is very far from those album, the sound texture feel is the one of my  fundamentals. So I can't help writing about it again and again....

And then,

CD album "Manipulated Dreams"  is available on Spotify. 

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