So What
Context
Opening Kind of Blue, this track is one of the best-known examples of modal jazz: a 32-bar AABA form built on the Dorian mode, 16 bars in D, 8 in E-flat, then 8 in D. The theme is announced by a dialogue between piano and double bass, orchestrated by Gil Evans. The album was recorded at Columbia in 1959.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Modal. Among the origins and influences of Modal: Cool (Birth of the Cool), Hard bop, Bossa nova, jazz samba.
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