2701630, I won't argue that Kind of Blue sparked a sudden revolution.
Posted by IkeMoses, Tue May-22-12 12:10 AM
I don't think my comments necessitate that conclusion, but I suppose they don't exclude it either.
Of course, hard bop continued to be produced well into the mid '60s, and even today you have young bucks like the Curtis Brothers carrying on the tradition faithfully.
When I say Kind of Blue killed jazz, it wasn't an assassin's bullet. It was a cancer. A beautiful, brilliant cancer. There were plenty mutations forming in the body of jazz around 1959, but with time Kind of Blue has proven to be the most aggressive. There's gotta be a tipping point before the downfall. Kind of Blue was it.
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