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4 songs

Cantaloupe Island

1964 · From Empyrean Isles

Hubbard on cornet, Van Gelder engineering, June 1964; Us3 later looped Hancock's vamp into the Top 10.

★ 5.9

1959 · From Kind of Blue

A twelve-bar blues in 6/8, take two the only complete one, and Paul Chambers' bass figure underneath everything.

★ 7.6

1965 · From A Love Supreme

Garrison's four notes, then Coltrane overdubbing the chant nineteen times, one December day at Van Gelder's.

★ 8.6

1959 · From Kind of Blue

Two chords and all the space in the world, Davis proving that less was the most radical idea in jazz.

★ 9.2