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Miles Davis: Kind of Blue - Jazz Transcribed Score Songbook and Sheet Music for Trumpet, Alto and Tenor Saxophone, Piano, Bass and Drums | Complete Improvised Solos and Sketch Scores
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue is a jazz transcribed score songbook featuring all five compositions from the landmark 1959 album by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. This collection brings together the improvised solos, instrumental parts, and sketch scores that define one of jazz music's most influential recordings. It offers trumpet and saxophone players, pianists, bassists, drummers, and jazz enthusiasts a detailed written reference to the original performances.
The book contains full score notation with chord names, transcriptions of the improvised solos, and sketch scores for all five tracks. Instrumentation includes trumpet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, piano, bass, and drums. Miles Davis's trumpet lines appear alongside the saxophone work of John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, while the rhythm section parts provide valuable references for the feel and musical character of each composition.
Through these transcriptions, musicians can examine the melodic phrasing, harmonic relationships, ensemble interaction, and improvisational ideas heard throughout Kind of Blue. The written scores provide a foundation for studying individual solos, exploring the interaction between instruments, and connecting the recorded performances with their musical notation. Background information about the album and notes on the folio add historical and musical context.
Song List
All Blues * Blue in Green * Flamenco Sketches * Freddie Freeloader * So What
This transcribed score brings the musical details of Kind of Blue together in one collection. It is a meaningful resource for jazz study, personal practice, ensemble reference, and performance preparation, as well as a thoughtful gift for admirers of Miles Davis and the enduring sound of modal jazz.
The book contains full score notation with chord names, transcriptions of the improvised solos, and sketch scores for all five tracks. Instrumentation includes trumpet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, piano, bass, and drums. Miles Davis's trumpet lines appear alongside the saxophone work of John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, while the rhythm section parts provide valuable references for the feel and musical character of each composition.
Through these transcriptions, musicians can examine the melodic phrasing, harmonic relationships, ensemble interaction, and improvisational ideas heard throughout Kind of Blue. The written scores provide a foundation for studying individual solos, exploring the interaction between instruments, and connecting the recorded performances with their musical notation. Background information about the album and notes on the folio add historical and musical context.
Song List
All Blues * Blue in Green * Flamenco Sketches * Freddie Freeloader * So What
This transcribed score brings the musical details of Kind of Blue together in one collection. It is a meaningful resource for jazz study, personal practice, ensemble reference, and performance preparation, as well as a thoughtful gift for admirers of Miles Davis and the enduring sound of modal jazz.
64 pages, Paperback
Published April 1, 2000
About the author
Miles Davis
185 books116 followersWith warm, muted style on albums, such as
Kind of Blue
(1959), noted American trumpeter Miles Dewey Davis, Junior, later experimented with jazz-fusion.
Recordings of Armando Anthony Corea with group of Davis from 1968 to 1970 contributed to the development of jazz-fusion.
Miles Dewey Davis III led a band and composed.
From World War II, people widely considered Davis at the forefront of almost every major development as the most influential musicians of the 20th century, to the 1990s. He played various early bebop and one of the first cool records. He partially responsibly developed modal, and his work with other musicians in the late 1960s and early 1970s arose.
Davis belongs to the great tradition that started with Buddy Bolden and ran through Joe Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge, and Dizzy Gillespie, although people never considered his high level of technical ability unlike those of those musicians. His greatest achievement, however, moved beyond regard as a distinctive influence on his own instrument and shaped whole ways through the work of his bands, in which many of the most important musicians of the second half of the 20th century made their names.
The hall of fame for rock and roll posthumously inducted Davis on 13 March 2006. The walk of fame of Saint Louis and the halls for big band and jazz and downbeat jazz also inducted him.
Recordings of Armando Anthony Corea with group of Davis from 1968 to 1970 contributed to the development of jazz-fusion.
Miles Dewey Davis III led a band and composed.
From World War II, people widely considered Davis at the forefront of almost every major development as the most influential musicians of the 20th century, to the 1990s. He played various early bebop and one of the first cool records. He partially responsibly developed modal, and his work with other musicians in the late 1960s and early 1970s arose.
Davis belongs to the great tradition that started with Buddy Bolden and ran through Joe Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge, and Dizzy Gillespie, although people never considered his high level of technical ability unlike those of those musicians. His greatest achievement, however, moved beyond regard as a distinctive influence on his own instrument and shaped whole ways through the work of his bands, in which many of the most important musicians of the second half of the 20th century made their names.
The hall of fame for rock and roll posthumously inducted Davis on 13 March 2006. The walk of fame of Saint Louis and the halls for big band and jazz and downbeat jazz also inducted him.
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