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Title: One day, this album just clicked ...
Review: I will start by saying that I don't know much about jazz--it's theory, styles, history, etc. I always liked older jazz/blues and discovered Miles Davis from Kind of Blue, which I first heard as background music at a party that drew my attention away from my friends and toward the music.A friend suggested this disc as another classic Miles Davis CD so I bought it without ever having heard a track. I hated it. Then, one day, I was riding the subway home and Pharoah's Dance came up randomly on my ipod and it was as if a light had gone off and everything in the music and in the city made perfect sense (it's hard to describe).I went on to explore the other tracks and have really grown to love and appreciate this album. It is very gritty and urban and, like a group of graffiti-covered tenement buildings, is so "ugly" that it's beautiful. If that makes any sense to you, then you will come to love this album, but expect to hate it at first.
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