Out of the Main

S5.E11: Kind of Blue, with Listener Jonathan

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Listener Jonathan returns to the podcast (as all Supporters are welcome to do) to take an in-depth review of perhaps the most influential jazz album of all time: Miles Davis’s 1959 masterpiece “Kind of Blue.”

  • What’s the story?
  • What makes this recording so groundbreaking and so influential? 
  • What is modal music?
  • What does the track-by-track analysis reveal?
  • What are the connections to yacht rock? 
  • Why were so many yacht rockers so enamored with the jazz convention?
  • How does all of this lead to Steely Dan (in more ways than one!)


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    References and Related:

    • ⁠⁠Playlist of songs featured on Out of the Main⁠⁠
    • ⁠John’s Spotify Yacht Rock Playlist⁠⁠
    • ⁠⁠Tom’s Spotify Yacht Rock Playlist⁠⁠⁠⁠
    • Intro/outro: Stock Music “We’re Here” composed by John H. Nixon (BMI)


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