Talk:All Blues

This article needs the personnel! That's why I came here! 50.193.79.41 (talk) 14:28, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

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This song is actually in 6/8 time. I think it should be corrected.

Right you are Kisch 00:40, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Wait. Wouldn't it be in 3/4 time? if it were counted in 6, that would mean the sixteenth notes were being swung, which is highly unlikely. I think its more plausible that it'd be in 3/4 since there's no indication of it really being in 6/8. Glassbreaker5791 (talk) 03:35, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

There are six beats in each bar. The beats do not feel like they are ordered into pairs of triplets, which is how 6/8 time is typically employed (think Irish jig). So I think a better notation would be in 6/4. -DJP

The article on Miles Davis "All Blues" states that the V7 chord in the tune is replaced by a VI7 chord, this is incorrect information, at the apropreiate place in the tune a full measure of the V7+9(D7+9)chord is played followed by a flat VI7+9 (Eb7+9)chord for a full measure followed by 2 measures of the I7(G7) chord ending the form. Listen to the cut on the album. Robert Abate, robabate1@charter.net, 231-421-1401 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.42.148.70 (talk) 23:41, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

There are clearly six beats to a bar. And though often covered as a 12-bar, the recording on Kind of Blue has 16-bar cycles.DaveDixon (talk) 19:29, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

bIV7 chord
Doesn't the Eb7 chord replace the IV chord (C7)? So instead of the usual V IV I blues turnaround going into the next chorus there is a V bVI I turnaround going into a four bar re-intro? It says the bVI chord substitutes for the V chord.

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On second thought, that progression does not sound right. It would be nice if the changes were given in their entirety for "All Blues". That is what I was looking for in the first place. According to "KIND OF BLUE The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece", a g minor chord substitutes for a C chord in the turn-around (page 142). But Miles Davis could easily have misspoken, so this is hardly definitive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.103.154 (talk) 17:15, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Stephen —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.103.154 (talk) 15:13, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

A curious connection
If, just after listening to All Blues, you listen to symphony No 11 by Shostakovich, and you have a good ear, you will recognise variations on All Blues in all four movements of the symphony. Either All Blues is based upon symphony No 11 by Shostakovich, which seems unlikely, or Shostakovich heard a performance of All Blues before the Kind of Blue album was released. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.157.40.40 (talk) 16:05, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Producer citation is garbled Google Books reference
User:DavidESpeed changed the infobox producer credit to Irving Townsend, with reference
 * Kahn, Ashley; Cobb, Jimmy (2001). "The Legacy of Blue". Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece. New York: Da Capo Press. p. 195. ISBN 0-306-81067-0. Retrieved 2013-06-08.

The link is weird. It's a Google Books search for "One other" "As confusing" However accurately note" original Townsend. I'm sorry I can't fix this reference. -- Skierpage (talk) 00:15, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) It doesn't find the book. I have trouble doing a search for the Ashley Kahn book, maybe the contents are no longer Google-able.
 * 2) "The Legacy of Blue" is a chapter in the book, I'm not sure why that's the text of the link.
 * 3) I think the reference should be a cite book with a   parameter giving evidence for the assertion and a page number.
 * 4) Are Google Book searches an appropriate target for a citation link? It's nice when you can view the page and read the quote in context, but who knows how long that kind of search will work.
 * 5) The best support I could find on the web is a quotation in a different Kind of Blue book that Townsend was the senior producer on the album in general, not "All Blues". If you search for Townsend apprentice producer "Kind of Blue", you get this quotation from Eric Nisenson's book on Kind of Blue:
 * In the case of Kind of Blue there were two producers: Teo Macero and Irving Townsend. Macero's role, however, was clearly that of an apprentice and observer.