So What

They sound fresh and fun and new and they make me want to tap my toes and dance.

But the Coltrane that really makes me pause and rediscover is the Coltrane of the Moodle improvisations in So What and to a lesser extent in Naima.

What is incredible to me is that he was exploring both simultaneously.

Count of Blue and Giant Steps were recorded a few weeks apart in 1959.

I'm not a musicologist and just enjoy the music.

Again, it's in two recording sessions for Columbia Records in March of 1959, where Wynton Kelly was in the piano chair, Miles Davis, Cannibal Lattery, John Coltrane, the same horns, and when Kelly was in the piano chair for Freddie Freeloader, Bill Evans for So What and Blue and Green, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb, and then another recording session in April of 1959 with Bill Evans, the pianist, in the same group.

And it's the classic album, Kind of Blue.

We'll play you almost all of it now without any interruption for your enjoyment as the jazz profiles of Miles Davis and John Coltrane continues here on radio station WKCR-FM.

Sid Gribbets with you.

We heard tracks on the all-time classic kind of blue record with Miles Davis.

We heard Freddy Freeloader where Wynton Kelly sat in at the piano, and then So What, and Blue and Green, and then finally All Blues.

But I hope you can hear it in your own mind's eye as just about all of you should own a copy of of Kind of Blue, the highest selling jazz record of all time.