There are two different compositions entitled "So What" performed by Miles … Read Full Bio ↴There are two different compositions entitled "So What" performed by Miles Davis.
Most notable is the version from the classic Miles Davis Album "Kind of Blue", with personnel: Miles Davis (trumpet), John Coltrane (tenor saxophone), Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (alto saxophone), Bill
Evans (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), and Jimmy Cobb (drums). Recorded March 2, 1959 at Columbia
Studios, New York City. Soloists are (in order): Davis, Coltrane, Adderley, Evans (with horns),
Chambers (final melody). Written by Miles Davis.
This song is one of the first and most famous instances of modal jazz, where the harmony is based on a scale rather than a rapidly changing series of chords. So What's bass line and melody are based on the D dorian scale, and the only changes are in the "B" section of the song, moving up a half step,
before returning back down. The solos follow this same progression, using D dorian for the first
16 bars, Eb dorian for the next 8 bars, and D dorian again for the last 8.
The lesser known "So What" is from the 1951 album "Conception", a standard that was also performed by Chubby Jackson featuring Gerry Mulligan in 1950, immediately after Miles' "Birth of Cool" sessions.
Most notable is the version from the classic Miles Davis Album "Kind of Blue", with personnel: Miles Davis (trumpet), John Coltrane (tenor saxophone), Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (alto saxophone), Bill
Evans (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), and Jimmy Cobb (drums). Recorded March 2, 1959 at Columbia
Studios, New York City. Soloists are (in order): Davis, Coltrane, Adderley, Evans (with horns),
Chambers (final melody). Written by Miles Davis.
This song is one of the first and most famous instances of modal jazz, where the harmony is based on a scale rather than a rapidly changing series of chords. So What's bass line and melody are based on the D dorian scale, and the only changes are in the "B" section of the song, moving up a half step,
before returning back down. The solos follow this same progression, using D dorian for the first
16 bars, Eb dorian for the next 8 bars, and D dorian again for the last 8.
The lesser known "So What" is from the 1951 album "Conception", a standard that was also performed by Chubby Jackson featuring Gerry Mulligan in 1950, immediately after Miles' "Birth of Cool" sessions.
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@ProtoType62
After the intro
Bass: hey guys i have to tell you something
The rest of instruments: Sooo what
Bass: Come on guys please let me share it
The rest of instruments: Sooo what
Bass: guys is not funny when you do that
The rest of instruments: Sooo what
Damn i love/miss the good music....
@violinoscar
When I was about 15, my guitar teacher told me that Miles' solo on this track was everything a jazz solo should be. Now, 40 years later, after 1000s of hours practice, and teaching, gigging, listening, I agree.
@MrHerzog333
Your guitar teacher is correct.
@stefanschwartze9932
the 10.000 hour rule
@samuelmorse784
Hardtop Harry Piano solo on David Bowie's song Aladdin Sane.
@edwardcardona717
Hardtop Harry Lol I'm 15 and I was told to go listen to Miles's solo because it was the quintessential jazz solo. By a guitar teacher. Yesterday. What a coincidence
@peko196591
Hardtop Harry 8b
@mellow.jazzcafe
"I don't often take smoke breaks, but when I do them, I do them in the middle of the coolest song ever."--Miles
@SimonMcGrath-oj8kg
U had a break, So What, next time Take Five.
@memecathar1263
The Matrix has you…
Follow the white rabbit 🐇
@roxyabrooks864
reads this while enjoying my J