This is the way this song should be played, Miles doesn't stray too far from the melody, nor 'Trane or Bill Evans. Sometimes the melody stands alone and Victor Young's song is a masterpiece on it's own. The personal interpretation of this beautiful melody by these giants is all that is needed
I agree. Sometimes there is no other way to play a standard, without "ruining" some aspect that made it as great as it is. And these legends were very respectful to this recording.
Happy Birthday Miles! I just heard that Jimmy Cobb left us at the rip age of 91! I am sure you are glad to see him. You got all your band mates up there now. You and your band will be making some more good music! Thank You and the guys for this wonderful album!
This recording may be singly one of the best jazz records ever recorded on the planet. At 1:44, when it's handed over to Coltrane, for that next five to ten seconds, it's fucking chilling.
I want to get it, but I don't. Maybe I don't know how to listen to it. Music can take me to another planet, a whole different world, depending on the song. I see music as a drug ingested through the ears, and I'm eager for a journey. Music is my love. This song takes me to a boring doctors office where I wait. That's the visual. I don't get what is so great as of now.
Jordan Wolff Well, I’ve always said, no one HAS to like something. You don’t have to like jazz or any certain genre. It may be because up until this point you’ve just listened to current contemporary music, pop, rap, r&b, which I like as well, but maybe it does take time to ease into something else. I started listening to just a little jazz, then more and more later. Also, it can hinge on finding a certain artist within a genre to hook you. A good example- I never liked country music that much, then I listened to some Waylon Jennings, and was hooked! Big time! Thank you, very enjoyable conversation.
@@almichael74 To your normie radio pop music listener, all that you just said would be a great point and lesson. I agree. But, it's fairly obvious for me. I've been playing music for 15 years, I even teach. I've heard comments about Miles Davis just like yours in the beginning of this thread for years now. Still, I don't get it. None of the Davis enthusiasts can tell me WHY it's so great. It reminds me of professional wine tasters, they say the wine is this and it's that, but it's all a cult of personality bs and no one really knows why any of it is good. Eh? Hope I don't come off as bullying here... Just fed up with this certain curiosity of mine. So, why is this great to you? You can go into the chord theory, modal use, or whatever. Hit me.
Jordan Wolff Well, with Miles, it’s that he doesn’t play predictably. The melodic way he plays, at least in thus era of his career, I guess, is very cool, I don’t know another way to put it. And Coltrane, wow, all up and down the horn, with a fiery passion, trying to find new ways to say something, that’s what it sounds like to me and probably others who like it. Yes, and the chords, it’s the notes they hit within the chord progressions, that’s another big part of it.
Miles, Miles,Miles.....on this day my King of a Dad would've been 84 yrs young....thankful that he made me listen to your music as well as many others and it gave me a true LOVE for jazz, the music for the soul.... True soul food...play it for Dad Mikesy💝💝💝👑🙏👼😊
What a beautiful post - I'm a lifelong heavy-duty jazz fan who grew up in late 60s and 70s and I knew who Miles was before I knew who the Beatles were - some of greatest memories in my life were listening to jazz with my Dad - inherited his collection of thousands of jazz albums in vinyl, and of everything he left behind that's all I really truly wanted. RIP Dad!
@@porterhall27 You are correct. "After high school, in September 1946, Evans attended Southeastern Louisiana University on a flute scholarship.[20][21] He studied classical piano interpretation with Louis P. Kohnop,..."
@@thugiemaximum naw its him. there is an interview from the 80s where he recalls recording this album and he mentions tracks like green dolphin and stella.
Lyrically beautiful, expressive playing from Miles, Trane, and Evans, respectful of Victor Young’s gorgeous melody. I also love the outro with Evans and Chambers’ bowed bass.
Magnificent genius of the horn!! Miles use of the mute makes this piece even more “fetching,” Oh what a loss we endure as Miles passed away. There, sir, no more tears, no more suffering, no more pain. We in the flesh miss you Miles.
To my mind's eye, this type of music speaks of, paints a picture of, or opens up a window into, a nocturne with an indigo sky and skyscrapers, a glimpse into a nightclub, mysteries, dangers, moodiness, escape from reality, flights of thought.... Something like that.
I have sat amongst the tallest trees and ponderd with them their ancient thoughts advice/ I have immersed myself in The Healing Waters of many a vast blue ocean/ not to bathe or enjoy/ but to purge myself of what was wrong with the world...
Gone 30 years ago today but never never forgotten. You play like nobody else Miles. You deserve to be remembered and listen too. I don't know why your fellow jazz musicians don't do tributes to you. They do for everybody else. I hear you say "i don't care about that sh%t! I know, but it should be done regardless. You deserve it.
I just got done watching the 1944 movie "The Uninvited" which is where this song was originally from. It was a piano piece that was written for Gail Russell, the actress who starred in the movie.
@@cjgreen4331 Ah, Stella was Gail's character in the movie. Ray Milland plays it for her in a great scene, he tells her he wrote it for her. Victor Young wrote the original song as well as the soundtrack. Great classic movie, hope you get to see it sometime.
first heard while in army 1962, the transition of miles to tenor sax of cole it still the most beautiful blend of jazz sounds i have ever heard. henry from pico rivera, cal
It simply astounds me that the discussions--both professional and average listener--leave out the essential importance of Bill Evans to the "Jazz Track" and "Kind Of Blue" albums! It is important to realize the overall ambience of both recordings would be vastly different without the contributions of Bill. Not only did his musical concepts envelope the musical concept, but it was as history has finally come to realize, that Bill wrote "Blue And Green" and "Flamenco Sketches". I know for sure personally, because Bill TOLD me!
Remember that Kind of Blue was Miles' creation. He could have easily asked Red Garland or even Oscar Peterson to join , and it still would have sounded great. It was a combined effort. Bill Evens is my favourite painist of all time by the way.
Can you believe after hearing this standard played on WRTI (Philadelphia), I realized the great Jerry Lewis featured this classic in the Nutty Professor. And I never knew that. LOL
Bill Evans once observed that the Rudy Van Gelder piano, in effect, made all pianists sound the same--at least in terms of "touch." Here that same sound almost overwhelms and undermines the intensity implicit in the solos of Miles and Trane. Tone down the piano sound, if your EQ device allows.
I agree with Michael Deak below. But, when Trane comes in for his solo with Bill, Paul and the drummer behind him, I think and feel, there can not be another rendition of this tune I would rather hear. Trane here, just raises the hair on back of my neck.
This song is way heavier and dense harmonically speaking than metal. It’s subtle and relaxing but intense and heavy at the same time. Truly unique. :-)
@@jordanwolff5243 It means that the chords progressions are quite complex. The song is in the key of Bb major but it is not using this chord until serveral compases are done, there is a lot of II V I sequences with II and V secondaries mixed with modal interchanges everywhere. Even it seems calm an peacefull if you want to improvise on this you must know a hell lot of musical theory, a part from what I said before you also need to know whichs scales and notes can be used in every chord which changes a lot for every chord. And all of this is made on purpose to make it sound unresolved, that is kind of floating arround, a not going anywhere kind of atmosphere
Why Kind of Blue appears above is beyond me-this vesion of Stella may be by the same group-Coltrane was great at ballads also-in fact he was great at everything
Yes right. But Miles, and the whole band, re-did his first chorus melody from the 58 sessions on the 1959 Kind of Blue Sessions. But everything on this new Kind Of Blue reissue version, from when Coltrane comes in to the end, is the same as the 1958 original recording of it from 58 sessions. 58 sessions was released much later than Kind Of Blue though, in 1974, with the original 58 version after all. Not sure why Miles redid his first melody in 59, other than maybe he didn't like his pickup into the melody or something else. It hadn't been released at that time on any album. He obviously liked everything else after the first melody. But then it didn't come out on the original Kind of Blue either, so he probably thought no one would ever hear that edit he and the band did that day after the 58 session came out in 1974 with the original. Well he wasn't around for that Kind Of Blue box set to say anything! Check em out back to back, Pretty interesting. I've never heard anyone talk about this.
This article will tell you where the song came from: the May 26, 1958, session at Columbia's 30th Street studio in NYC. It was released on an album entitled: "1958 Miles," and re-issued in many forms thereafter. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Miles
"Two things can slow down the Time, a black hole and Miles Davis; and I'm not sure about the black hole." Albert Einstein - blues version.
i don't think he said that i can't seem to find that quote anywhere
It's a joke on the "2 things are infinite" quote, look that one up.
@@AntonStruzik lol
lol
Einstein's original equation was E=Miles Davis Squared, but he had to scrap it because, of course, Miles was never square.
Every John Coltrane first notes sounds like the voice of God, and especially this one.
This is Miles Davis, not John Coltrane
@@luigiquartucci5844 I'm talking about John Coltrane's solo ... 🤷
Hank Mobley's sax solo really gives this beautiful number a rich tone. He had taken Coltrane's place in the band by this time.
This is the way this song should be played, Miles doesn't stray too far from the melody, nor 'Trane or Bill Evans. Sometimes the melody stands alone and Victor Young's song is a masterpiece on it's own. The personal interpretation of this beautiful melody by these giants is all that is needed
I agree. Sometimes there is no other way to play a standard, without "ruining" some aspect that made it as great as it is. And these legends were very respectful to this recording.
Haha Giants I immediately thought of Giant Steps by John Coltrane
What’s do you play?
For the disparate souls who feel it is appropriate to 'thumbs down' this selection, I gently remind that 'away' is a place and they should go there.
@Thijs Van bosch Not on my watch.
Lol
😂😂😂😂😂
_Why are you concerned about that?_
There isn’t a speaker loud enough for this piece of music ..
Heavenly
This my Mama's name Stella. Stella means a 🌟 Star. That she still is in Heaven. ❤ Thanks Miles Davis for this Beautiful Music 🎶 🎵 🙌 ❤️
The man who changed jazz many times. The grestest Miles Davis.
Happy Birthday Miles! I just heard that Jimmy Cobb left us at the rip age of 91! I am sure you are glad to see him. You got all your band mates up there now. You and your band will be making some more good music! Thank You and the guys for this wonderful album!
Notice just how economical Trane is with the notes, and yet this - for my money - is one of the most beautiful solos he ever played.
Bill Evans made you feel something on this song. Truly angelic.
I have always said that Miles Davis was a genius
This recording may be singly one of the best jazz records ever recorded on the planet. At 1:44, when it's handed over to Coltrane, for that next five to ten seconds, it's fucking chilling.
Allen Reed man, chilling is spot on.
I want to get it, but I don't. Maybe I don't know how to listen to it. Music can take me to another planet, a whole different world, depending on the song. I see music as a drug ingested through the ears, and I'm eager for a journey. Music is my love. This song takes me to a boring doctors office where I wait. That's the visual. I don't get what is so great as of now.
Jordan Wolff Well, I’ve always said, no one HAS to like something. You don’t have to like jazz or any certain genre. It may be because up until this point you’ve just listened to current contemporary music, pop, rap, r&b, which I like as well, but maybe it does take time to ease into something else. I started listening to just a little jazz, then more and more later. Also, it can hinge on finding a certain artist within a genre to hook you. A good example- I never liked country music that much, then I listened to some Waylon Jennings, and was hooked! Big time! Thank you, very enjoyable conversation.
@@almichael74 To your normie radio pop music listener, all that you just said would be a great point and lesson. I agree. But, it's fairly obvious for me. I've been playing music for 15 years, I even teach. I've heard comments about Miles Davis just like yours in the beginning of this thread for years now. Still, I don't get it. None of the Davis enthusiasts can tell me WHY it's so great. It reminds me of professional wine tasters, they say the wine is this and it's that, but it's all a cult of personality bs and no one really knows why any of it is good. Eh? Hope I don't come off as bullying here... Just fed up with this certain curiosity of mine. So, why is this great to you? You can go into the chord theory, modal use, or whatever. Hit me.
Jordan Wolff Well, with Miles, it’s that he doesn’t play predictably. The melodic way he plays, at least in thus era of his career, I guess, is very cool, I don’t know another way to put it. And Coltrane, wow, all up and down the horn, with a fiery passion, trying to find new ways to say something, that’s what it sounds like to me and probably others who like it. Yes, and the chords, it’s the notes they hit within the chord progressions, that’s another big part of it.
No trills, no frills. Clean as hell. Wish more people honored it like this.
Miles, Miles,Miles.....on this day my King of a Dad would've been 84 yrs young....thankful that he made me listen to your music as well as many others and it gave me a true LOVE for jazz, the music for the soul.... True soul food...play it for Dad Mikesy💝💝💝👑🙏👼😊
What a beautiful post - I'm a lifelong heavy-duty jazz fan who grew up in late 60s and 70s and I knew who Miles was before I knew who the Beatles were - some of greatest memories in my life were listening to jazz with my Dad - inherited his collection of thousands of jazz albums in vinyl, and of everything he left behind that's all I really truly wanted. RIP Dad!
Everyone on this album was an all-star in their own right. Together, their synergy was unique in jazz annals.
He was the highest paid musician in America for a time. iTS EASY TO UNDERSTAND WHY.
Bill Evans got his degree in music as a flute player.
What?
saxxy Brinkles hardwood ceiling
no he didn't
@@porterhall27 You are correct. "After high school, in September 1946, Evans attended Southeastern Louisiana University on a flute scholarship.[20][21] He studied classical piano interpretation with Louis P. Kohnop,..."
Flut players are very cool...
the greatest transition of all times.
God damn if Bill Evans playing isn't just ridiculously hip on this track!
Zackie Dynamo I think it’s Wynton kelly
@@thugiemaximum naw its him. there is an interview from the 80s where he recalls recording this album and he mentions tracks like green dolphin and stella.
@Marco Evans "just" 🤣
I think it sounds more like Red Garland
@@SuperHinckley it's Bill Evans
Lyrically beautiful, expressive playing from Miles, Trane, and Evans, respectful of Victor Young’s gorgeous melody. I also love the outro with Evans and Chambers’ bowed bass.
The beginning horn section is so beautiful. Perfect melody.
Smoother than butter 🧈
This beautiful piece of music brings tears to eyes yet calms my restless spirit.
Magnificent genius of the horn!! Miles use of the mute makes this piece even more “fetching,” Oh what a loss we endure as Miles passed away. There, sir, no more tears, no more suffering, no more pain. We in the flesh miss you Miles.
To my mind's eye, this type of music speaks of, paints a picture of, or opens up a window into, a nocturne with an indigo sky and skyscrapers, a glimpse into a nightclub, mysteries, dangers, moodiness, escape from reality, flights of thought.... Something like that.
I have sat amongst the tallest trees and ponderd with them their ancient thoughts advice/ I have immersed myself in The Healing Waters of many a vast blue ocean/ not to bathe or enjoy/ but to purge myself of what was wrong with the world...
Indeed my friend Indeed
Gone 30 years ago today but never never forgotten. You play like nobody else Miles. You deserve to be remembered and listen too. I don't know why your fellow jazz musicians don't do tributes to you. They do for everybody else. I hear you say "i don't care about that sh%t! I know, but it should be done regardless. You deserve it.
Ty brother. That's why i play. Keep it💯 - Miles
Ah yes, reminds me of Sunday afternoons listening to this from the turntable. Exquisite!
La versión de Miles Davis, es la mejor que nunca haya oído. Majestuosa!!!
Miles and Baker, gods of the cool style, they just take you away to their world
Wow....Miles, John, Bill. Brilliant
Stella by Starlite is one of my favorite old standards & I've played it many times with various bands around the miss gulf coast.
MASTERPIECE!
That Coltrane entry !!!
Savona Records
Yeeessss !
Holla!! My sentiments exactly!! Did you hear him???!!! Did you hear him???!!!🎷🎵🎶👍🏿👍🏿
Yes 👌 Legend!
Yes!!!!
I just got done watching the 1944 movie "The Uninvited" which is where this song was originally from. It was a piano piece that was written for Gail Russell, the actress who starred in the movie.
Gail is a eternal beauty. The song is hers alone.
I expected her name to be Stella
@@cjgreen4331 Ah, Stella was Gail's character in the movie. Ray Milland plays it for her in a great scene, he tells her he wrote it for her. Victor Young wrote the original song as well as the soundtrack. Great classic movie, hope you get to see it sometime.
My Mom used to play this a lot. Thanks!
first heard while in army 1962, the transition of miles to tenor sax of cole it still the most beautiful blend of jazz sounds i have ever heard. henry from pico rivera, cal
Henry Ramirez And his solo is one of his best imho
*Miles Lives in Me*
Miles, Evans... the definition
Man he was special
If heaven had a jazz club, this will be the featured song of the night
Beautiful intro technique.Wonderful piece of music.Thank You.
Beautiful indeed
It simply astounds me that the discussions--both professional and average listener--leave out the essential importance of Bill Evans to the "Jazz Track" and "Kind Of Blue" albums! It is important to realize the overall ambience of both recordings would be vastly different without the contributions of Bill. Not only did his musical concepts envelope the musical concept, but it was as history has finally come to realize, that Bill wrote "Blue And Green" and "Flamenco Sketches". I know for sure personally, because Bill TOLD me!
Not Sure who's on first Yeah, and everything else would also be different, as Miles and the others were improvising with Bill's comping in mind
Remember that Kind of Blue was Miles' creation. He could have easily asked Red Garland or even Oscar Peterson to join , and it still would have sounded great. It was a combined effort. Bill Evens is my favourite painist of all time by the way.
Another beauty I first heard on Jazz Track which still today gives me chills when I hear it!!
I love this take it swings so incredibly hard!
Coltrane's entrance is impressive also because of the change in approach by the bass and drums. Absolutely integral to that transition.
This is magic...thank you great genious!! Legendary....
...Miles Davis e companhia sensacional sempre. Salve, salve e salve!😀😃😆👆🏿🤙🏿✌🏿🤜🏿🤜🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿Brazil 🇧🇷...
🤗👏👏👏😎THANKS FOR SHARING THIS WITH US 😍😍😍
Just Beautiful and Relaxing
Just 🙏👑
Just revisited the almost 2 hour documentary of this maestro. He lived musical lifetimes some could only imagine 👏🏿🙏🏿
Can you believe after hearing this standard played on WRTI (Philadelphia), I realized the great Jerry Lewis featured this classic in the Nutty Professor. And I never knew that. LOL
WRTI!! One of my favorite stations
This song is a tribute to the absaloutly flawless gail russell rip beautiful 😢
The chords-solo of Bill Evans ...!
Well that was brilliant.
RIP Miles Davis (Miles Dewey Davis III 25 May 1926 -28 September 1991) 🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
My god
I heard few more versions of this track from Miles, I love this one the most.
I've always been convinced that these sessions were all Evans. Nice work from everybody else but he defined that sound.
Bill Evans once observed that the Rudy Van Gelder piano, in effect, made all pianists sound the same--at least in terms of "touch." Here that same sound almost overwhelms and undermines the intensity implicit in the solos of Miles and Trane. Tone down the piano sound, if your EQ device allows.
i honesty thought this was the audio for a book and not a song
Amazing. Pure joy to listen to. Muchas Gracias!!🌹🌹🌹
beautiful
A great version a Miles Davis trumpet.
Minha preferida. É sempre muito bom relaxar e ouvir o melhor do jazz.
Ogni solo di Coltrane mi ammazza è un'anima che si muove verso di me ed entra e mi paralizza, non esisterà mai un musicista della sua grandezza
absolutey beautiful
La più grande ballare di tutto il Jazz
I agree with Michael Deak below. But, when Trane comes in for his solo with Bill, Paul and the drummer behind him, I think and feel, there can not be another rendition of this tune I would rather hear. Trane here, just raises the hair on back of my neck.
Totally agree!!!!!!!!!
That transition is sublime...one of the best we'll ever hear. It is moving.
What about Bird on if he was on this.?
@@ronniebishop2496 I don't understand. Charlie Parker? On this record? No.
Josh Charlat He did a cut of it, what’s not to understand? I didn’t say he was on this cut, I said what if he was. I’m sure he’s played it with Miles.
I'm a heavy metal purist, but this song is truly relaxing.
+Carlos Gallegos I don't know about that, but it's not an easy one for sure.
This song is way heavier and dense harmonically speaking than metal. It’s subtle and relaxing but intense and heavy at the same time. Truly unique. :-)
@@cloud-w2v What does "harmonically heavy" mean? Not quizzing, just curious.
@@jordanwolff5243 It means that the chords progressions are quite complex. The song is in the key of Bb major but it is not using this chord until serveral compases are done, there is a lot of II V I sequences with II and V secondaries mixed with modal interchanges everywhere. Even it seems calm an peacefull if you want to improvise on this you must know a hell lot of musical theory, a part from what I said before you also need to know whichs scales and notes can be used in every chord which changes a lot for every chord. And all of this is made on purpose to make it sound unresolved, that is kind of floating arround, a not going anywhere kind of atmosphere
@@jordanwolff5243 Music Theory. It means the song is weird, and tricky to play on. Looking at the changes now, and yeah. Ew
Fine!
So good. Thanks for posting.
Dam`n great and DAM`N not every recording by Miles has been issued on "Kind of blue"!
I had to scroll so far to find someone else who noticed Stella by starlight was not on Kind of Blue
Miles Davis recorded this several times - but it's definitely not on the original release of Kind Of Blue. 1958 Miles would have been a good choice.
Why Kind of Blue appears above is beyond me-this vesion of Stella may be by the same group-Coltrane was great at ballads also-in fact he was great at everything
@@jerrygoldfarb7739 Except not Bill Evans on piano
I believe this track was on Miles Davis, Album entitled: Jazz Track. ( recorded 1958 ) Kind of Blue ( recorded 1959 )
Peace to all.
It’s on the Kind of Blue re-issue because it’s from the only other recording session of the Kind of Blue band which never got published in an album
"played by the bedside, stella by starlight" - hozier🫶🏼
Kind of Blue has been said to be the biggest selling jazz album ever.
Lindo demais.
Excellent
It's so romantic
anyone else here from Hozier? "played from the bed side is Stella by Starlight. That was my heart the drums that start off night and day"?
"Same kind of music....HAUNTS her bedroom, I'm almost me again, she's almost you"
It takes me back to a different time, a different life...I'll probably have this played at my funeral in the future.
Last night I was telling my wife about different jazz songs. Now I know why I listen to jazz. The stories
in kind of blue non c'è mai stato questo pezzo !
vero, ma è registrato dalla stessa formazione (insieme a on green dolphin street)
È nella legacy edition
Wow!!!
this song was on the '58 Miles album not Kinda Blue pictured above.
Yes right. But Miles, and the whole band, re-did his first chorus melody from the 58 sessions on the 1959 Kind of Blue Sessions. But everything on this new Kind Of Blue reissue version, from when Coltrane comes in to the end, is the same as the 1958 original recording of it from 58 sessions. 58 sessions was released much later than Kind Of Blue though, in 1974, with the original 58 version after all. Not sure why Miles redid his first melody in 59, other than maybe he didn't like his pickup into the melody or something else. It hadn't been released at that time on any album. He obviously liked everything else after the first melody. But then it didn't come out on the original Kind of Blue either, so he probably thought no one would ever hear that edit he and the band did that day after the 58 session came out in 1974 with the original. Well he wasn't around for that Kind Of Blue box set to say anything! Check em out back to back, Pretty interesting. I've never heard anyone talk about this.
vamos fluminense diria la chavisa pero yo no veo futbol. Grande el miles davis hizo buena cancion
Never heard this tune in this album
Its on a reissue
3:10 mark....Bill nails it
I LOVE STELLA MATE
This article will tell you where the song came from: the May 26, 1958, session at Columbia's 30th Street studio in NYC. It was released on an album entitled: "1958 Miles," and re-issued in many forms thereafter. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Miles
Interesting article-was unaware of Cannonball's dissatisfaction with Miles' switch from Red Garland to Bill Evans-thanks for the info LionBronstein
When giants roamed the earth...
the 60s?
soundtrack of the most moving mental movies I do
💯
Questa è la migliore versione: Una poesia.
This seems to be a bonus track included on a 2OO8 re-release.
Como decimos los argentinos UN TEMAZO, que te afloja hasta el alma. hermosísimo y los interpretes fuera de este mundo.
Very many beautiful people love to be lonely..
ti voglio bene
03:09
I wish i could listen to this in a autumn gray kind of day. But im freakking são Paulo 32 Celcious! MILES get me out of here!!
+Ee .e autumn grey listener here. can confirm it fits amazingly.
+Xolin11 that aint fair! :-(
2:02
Quem pode , pode, quem não pode vai pra pagode.