“ Kind of Blue was very influential, but it remains a one-off. John Coltrane turned modality into a style that remains prevalent today. However, that Coltrane style isn’t really diatonic: after the introductory choruses are over, the complete chromatic kaleidoscopes over a drone. Kind of Blue remains just about the only modal record that doesn’t have slipping and sliding, interchanging pentatonic patterns, or “Coltrane changes,” all which are non-diatonic in the extreme.
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