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Mark Sutton, Photographer
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Herndon | VA | USA | Posted: 4:46 PM on 05.26.09 |
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I have to agree. I don't remember much about my early life in the 60's, but I do have memories of walking to old Conny Mack Stadium to check out a Phillies game with my father and also hearing "Kind of Blue" on our hi-fi (that is what my dad called it back then) in our living room almost every day. I heard that album so much that when I was old enough to buy my own albums I went to Center City (Philly) and brought a Return to Forever album and Kind of Blue because my Pops wouldn't let me touch that album.
Over the years I've re-brought that album 6 times (2 CD's) including a Japanese version that was only played once just to create a reel-to-reel copy of it. I have it loaded to my Rhapsody collection and my Itunes library. This was indeed the greatest album I've ever heard. I also brought a book "The making of Kind of Blue" (see link below) a few years ago that I've read twice. If you've never heard this album, I would highly recommend getting a copy, get you a glass and sit back and take it all in. You will be amazed.....
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306815583/ref=s9_k2a_gw_ir04?pf_rd_m=ATVP... |
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Ron Hawkes, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Rockland | ME | USA | Posted: 9:49 AM on 05.27.09 |
->> If it had not been for the album "Kind of Blue" I might have missed the jazz era all together. Though not a real big jazz fan, this is in my opinion some of the greatest music ever recorded.
This album came out when I was seven years old and I heard it for the first time when I was about 11 or 12. I was listening to another 1959 recording from Bobby Darin "Mack the Knife" and a friends father told me to sit and listen to "Kind of Blue"
Wow did that take me by storm. The problem was nobody else ever lived up to that recording in jazz for me.
Thanks Jim McNay for the story and reminder of not only a great photographer, but a masterpiece musical recording. |
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