{"id":91,"date":"2009-09-27T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2009\/09\/kind-of-blue-pa.html"},"modified":"2009-09-27T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T20:19:00","slug":"kind-of-blue-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2009\/09\/kind-of-blue-pa.html","title":{"rendered":"Kind of Blue (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3236\/922\/1600\/Kind%20of%20Blue.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3236\/922\/320\/Kind%20of%20Blue.jpg\" \/><\/a>It has been said that jazz history can be divided into two segments: \u201cBefore <strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Kind Of Blue<\/span><\/strong> and after <strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Kind Of Blue<\/span><\/strong>.\u201d In 1959 Miles Davis recorded <strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Kind Of Blue<\/span><\/strong> and \u201cMore than forty years after its release, it is still one of the most-sought-after recordings in the country; in fact, as late as 1998 it was the best-selling jazz album of the year.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The story behind <strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Kind Of Blue<\/span><\/strong> is essential to understanding the sociology of jazz and serves as a good case study for understanding jazz theology. The album was \u201ccreated\u2026because the most important jazzmen in the modern scene desperately wanted to change the way they played their music. This need was not purely musical; it had more than a little to do with the changes then going on in American society, <em>especially concerning the lives of African-Americans<strong>.\u201d<br \/><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\u201cIt should never be forgotten that the depth and beauty of jazz have arisen from centuries of injustice, brutality, fear, and pain, none of which were passively accepted but were met with African-Americans\u2019 resistance, striving, and hope for a more benevolent future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Kind Of Blue<\/span><\/strong> marked an \u201cend of an era\u201d for jazz music and the beginning of something fresh\u2014not just <strong>emergent but also convergent<\/strong>. I see a day that this whole modern\/postmodern emergent debate\/conversation is divided into two era&#039;s: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Before Jazz Theology and after Jazz Theology.<br \/><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nOver the next few posts, I am going to unpack the significance of <strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Kind Of Blue<\/span><\/strong> and its&#039; contribution to jazz as we know it. This will be essential to understanding some of the basics of how the African-American experience informs our theology. <strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Kind of Blue<\/span><\/strong> is essential listening for any wannabe jazz theologian, that is, those who desperately want to change the way theology is done. If you do not have a copy, you might want to purchase one along with an album that is pre-<strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Kind Of Blue<\/span><\/strong> so that you can compare and contrast. Perhaps some big band jazz\u2026I would suggest something by Duke Ellington (if you can get an album with the song, &quot;I got it bad and that ain&#039;t good,&quot; it will be worth it.)<\/p>\n<p>As we go on this journey, it is essential that we understand what life in America was like in 1959&#8230;<strong><em><br \/><\/em><\/strong><br \/>(All quotes above are from Eric Nisenson\u2019s fine book, \u201cThe Making of <strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Kind Of Blue<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">.)<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been said that jazz history can be divided into two segments: \u201cBefore Kind Of Blue and after Kind Of Blue.\u201d In 1959 Miles Davis recorded Kind Of Blue and \u201cMore than forty years after its release, it is still one of the most-sought-after recordings in the country; in fact, as late as 1998&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finding-the-groove","category-jazz-theology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kind of Blue (part 1) - The Jazz Theologian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2009\/09\/kind-of-blue-pa.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kind of Blue (part 1) - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It has been said that jazz history can be divided into two segments: \u201cBefore Kind Of Blue and after Kind Of Blue.\u201d In 1959 Miles Davis recorded Kind Of Blue and \u201cMore than forty years after its release, it is still one of the most-sought-after recordings in the country; 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