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Title: Over-rated and Pretentious
Review: Ok, sports fans! After hearing so many glowing reviews of this album and hearing it referred to as possibly the greatest jazz album ever made, I felt compelled to write this. It was about 20 years ago that I first heard this album, and found it to be boring. Everything is about the same tempo. I found Mr. Davis' playing to be laughable at best. Finally, it's irritating; and confusing that so many people laud it. DO NOT buy this album as aprimer for jazz. It is very misleading to hail this as the ultimate representation of an art form that has had far superior accounts of itself. If any musician showed up on a gig sounding the way Davis did on this album, they would be fired in a heartbeat! If you want to learn jazz, start with Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, and Duke Ellington. I give "Kind of Blue" one star for Cannonball Adderly's and Bill Evans' efforts. Otherwise, it is [bad work] hailed as something good-and it is with great effort that I've edited myself!
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