# Talk:Kind of Blue

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The "Release history" has been tagged as needing more references since February 2010. I'm surprised no one has instigated a GAR yet. howcheng  {chat} 17:40, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Please tag If you place more specific {{cn}} tags on certain claims that you feel are unverified, it will be easy to resolve this. For now, this should help. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:24, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
I didn't apply the refimprove tag in the first place, but having an orange-level maintenance tag is incongruous with GA status. howcheng  {chat} 21:10, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
I sourced several statements when I could find the information in the sources, and I removed one sentence and a list that I could not source. (This removal should not affect the article's completeness in any way.) I removed the {{refimprove}} tag as a result. I think this should clear up all issues. – Quadell (talk) 13:15, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
Keep as references added.--♫GoP♫TCN 16:41, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
Forgive a new commenter - The pitchfork rating for Kind of Blue as 6.6/10 is clearly directed as a review of the reissue not the actual album. This misleadingly presents the content of the review.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.176.64.36 (talk) 00:25, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Relevant comments about this album at Talk:Time Out (album)#RIAA's first Platinum jazz album?. Dan56 (talk) 23:56, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

The references 11, and 12 refer to the page 299 of Ashley Kahn´s Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece., but the Kahn book with the IBSN mentioned has only 224 pages according to Amazon. -- Trou Noir (talk) 12:08, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Not to denigrate this great album, but the article says it's considered "one of the greatest albums of all time" about half a dozen times throughout the text. Okay, we get it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:643:8101:6A37:791E:365D:CD23:EE4B (talk) 18:41, 14 October 2015 (UTC) 

My "greatest" count reaches 10. But a shame, in my view, that we can't turn it Up to eleven. Martinevans123 (talk) 18:46, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
I removed one "greatest" as it appeared redundant in its given section. The others seem appropriate, given the contexts in which they appear (even if do appear to some as being overly numerous).--JayJasper (talk) 18:55, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

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This seems very contorted:

 pianist Wynton Kelly, ... with former band pianist Bill Evans appearing on most of the tracks in place of Kelly

Shouldn't it be something like:

pianist Bill Evans with new pianist Wynton Kelly appearing on one track.

- Immigrant laborer (talk) 16:15, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

I can see that you believe it should be noted that if an album had tracks one to five on side one and tracks one to four on side two, then it should be announced in the track listing section that the compact disc is numbered it tracks one through nine. I'm sorry but I feel that this little tag placed at the bottom of every track listing scans terribly on the page, and indeed insults the reader's intelligence. Since a compact disc has no sides, of course the track listing format does not indicate any, so tracks are numbered through rather than broken up into sides with side two starting off at one again. I don't think that needs to be reiterated. PJtP (talk) 02:31, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Which reader? The teenage reader who "accounts for only seven percent of CD sales", if they even buy and know what a CD is? Dan56 (talk) 04:23, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Re this revert: "Who was Jimmy Cobb and why do we care about him?" Really?  This article is a "WP:Good Article" and that quote has been placed under "Recording" for at least 10 years. Martinevans123 (talk) 07:39, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

I know who Jimmy Cobb is. But Wikipedia articles should be written for people unfamiliar with the article subject in mind - we can't count on them knowing who Cobb is, or on them reading the article prose to find out. The simple fix in this situation is just to write "Drummer Jimmy Cobb" in the caption - it just adds context.

The bigger problem is why this quote is important enough to box out separately from the prose. It's very short, and it seems (though even this is not clear) to be a pretty generic statement along the lines of "It's a good album". That's not revealing or enlightening, and it's nothing that couldn't be inserted or paraphrased in the article body instead. Popcornfud (talk) 12:27, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
That's a shame. For over ten years it's attracted no adverse comment? I think it's pretty plain and simple. I really don't see any value in "paraphrasing" it - a bit like reducing the Mona Lisa to painting by numbers. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:35, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
... however, looking at the Kahn (2000) source here I can't find that quote, certainly not on page 111. Can you? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:59, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
Can't see it. Google does produce this possible alternative source (the Times) for the quote, but it's behind a paywall so I can't check it myself right now, and I also am concerned the Times may have sourced it from the Wikipedia article, a possible case of WP:CITOGENESIS. Will need checking. Popcornfud (talk) 13:19, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
I'd refrain from making arguments along the lines of For over ten years it's attracted no adverse comment? - it suggests that if something sticks around long enough it shouldn't be changed and/or is impervious to criticism, which a) doesn't make much sense and b) would make it difficult to make progress in many areas.

I'm not sure what you're saying with the Mona Lisa comparison... I don't see what value the quote adds to the article at all. Popcornfud (talk) 13:14, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
My real point is that this has been a Good Article for over ten years. As regards Mona Lisa - it's just taking a poetic quote, by a very famous musician, who played on the album, and reducing it to a mere prose factoid. But hey, encyclopaedias are all about facts, aren't they. Martinevans123 (talk) 13:29, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
To be quite frank with you, as someone who has written and reviewed plenty of GAs and FAs over the years, I regularly discover FAs (let alone GAs) with dramatic room for improvement; I no longer put a lot of stock in the badges, especially ones that are years old, when review standards were quite different.

Assuming we can find a source for the quote, I wouldn't object to integrating the quote into the article body in some place where it contextually makes sense. Something like Cobb said the album "must have been made in heaven". But it isn't the sort of quote that makes sense to draw out and place in a separate quote box, other than to sort of glorify it. As I said in my original edit, I don't think it even really makes sense to someone skimming the article (and quote boxes/images/captions are read by skimming first - they should be able to stand alone). Popcornfud (talk) 13:42, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
Those seven words still make perfect sense to me. Yes, I was basking in its glory. For this place, I thought it was cool. Silly me. Martinevans123 (talk) 13:47, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
There's a book source, from Brian J. Fraser (2004), here. And The Times used it in it's 2020 obituary for Cobb here. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:17, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
Martinevans123, thanks for finding those sources. I've used them to integrate the quote into a place where I think it makes more sense, with context. Popcornfud (talk) 14:26, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
Yeah, well, whateva. "Heaven is a place, where nothing ever happens (to cool quote boxes)." Martinevans123 (talk) 17:59, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
Jimmy Cobb is introduced in the lead. Piotr Jr. (talk) 07:32, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

Um yes, he's linked in the second sentence. But allegedly we can't count on people "reading the article prose to find out who he is." Martinevans123 (talk) 08:22, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
I don't want to dwell too much on this because IMO the lack of context is not the biggest problem with the quotebox. The biggest problem is why it was significant enough to pull out into a box in the first place.

However, it's good practice, in box captions, to provide context for what it is the box is showing (a quote or a photo or whatever) and help the reader understand why it is significant without having to read the entire article first. Although we're talking about a quote box here, and not an image caption, the guidance at MOS:CAPCONTEXT applies here.

As I said above, this issue would have been easily rectified by simply adding "Drummer Jimmy Cobb". Popcornfud (talk) 09:51, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
In any case it's not a big deal, if you both feel this quote is self-evidently significant and valuable enough to draw out in a quote box, and can't be paraphrased, go and put it back. and we can just mention "Drummer" in there to solve the context issue. We just need to make sure it has the correct source on it this time. Popcornfud (talk) 09:56, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
As I said before, I really don't see how this quote can be usefully "paraphrased". lol. I thought the quote box was elegant. I think the prose alternative is entirely pedestrian. Just my opinion.  Martinevans123 (talk) 10:08, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

Copystrike on the coverage high profile case. --Greatder (talk) 08:32, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Could you explain what you're talking about? Many thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 08:57, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
@Martinevans123: basically someone made an 8bit chiptune of their personal interpretation of the music and got sued for using the pixelated version of album picture. It blew up. Some links:

- https://boingboing.net/2011/06/23/why-fair-use-doesnt.html
- https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/benjaminj4/why-remix-culture-needs-new-copyright-laws
- https://observer.com/2011/06/andy-baio-jay-maisel-kind-of-bloop-lawsuit-sue-2011-06-24/
- https://www.litigationandtrial.com/2011/06/articles/attorney/trademark-copyright-infringement/kind-of-bloop-an-statutory-damages/
--Greatder (talk) 15:06, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

I see. Thanks for explaining. Yes, it looks relevant. Martinevans123 (talk) 15:11, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
This is not essential to an understanding of the article's topic. Piotr Jr. (talk) 03:48, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
The article's topic is the album. This is a trivial item in the story of the album cover. Piotr Jr. (talk) 03:54, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
@Piotr Jr.: It had relevant and wide reception in news cycle and the article needs to be updated to reflect those news and discussions. --Greatder (talk) 04:00, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
I don't consider any of the sites you referenced to be relevant or indicative of widespread coverage. And in and of itself, the story seems like a footnote. Piotr Jr. (talk) 04:24, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
In fact, two of your sources are listed at WP:RSP with cautionary notes. Piotr Jr. (talk) 04:27, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
Why do we need an entire section dedicated to this story? How is more than one sentence summarizing its connection to the album not sufficient enough? How does mentioning more help readers understand Kind of Blue better? How does not mentioning it at all deprive this article of all requisite information to understand the album? These are the questions we should be asking ourselves. You are free to add the information yourself to the article, but stop tagging it as if it needs this. It doesn't. Piotr Jr. (talk) 04:48, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Not really "influence" is it. But kind of legacy-ish? One sentence may well be enough.  Martinevans123 (talk) 09:06, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

This edit does not constitute vandalism, nor does it change the meaning or context of the material, nor does it include information not found in already cited sources. It includes incremental changes made in good faith to improve the previous version of this paragraph, which had several areas in need of improvement: 
1) the letter 'a' in 'alto' was incorrectly capitalized  
2) the sentence's readability is hindered by its clumsy grammar and punctuation as well as its long length 
3) the events mentioned near the end of sentence were listed non-chronologically: the mention of 'Kelly...November, 1958' precedes 'Cobb...May, 1958' 
4) the sentence as written states that the pianist (Evans) was replaced in 1958, but that a drummer was added— the latter is incorrect, as the previous lineup also had a drummer (Philly Joe Jones) who was replaced in 1958 by Jimmy Cobb.
Hagaland (talk) 05:43, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
Thank you. But you've left the first paragraph uncited. 𝒮𝒾𝓇 𝒯𝑒𝒻𝓁𝑜𝓃 (talk | contribs) 15:15, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
Done. (I don't have a problem with providing a reference, but it's worth noting that no other information/instrumentalist in that paragraph was cited; perhaps you can enlighten me regarding why...) Hagaland (talk) 20:53, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
Because you split it from the other text, which had citations toward the end. Which is customary to place a citation covering a whole paragraph at the end and not repeat it elsewhere (WP:OVERCITE). So can you check your previous revisions and see which citation was verifying that entire paragraph? 𝒮𝒾𝓇 𝒯𝑒𝒻𝓁𝑜𝓃 (talk | contribs) 21:44, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

What is the point in the 3,495,572 (with reference) under certified sales, when it has been certified platinum 5 times in the US (i.e., sales over 5 million)? 
1) It's out of date: It went platinum one more time since this reference was added.
2) Surely the certification agency is the best source.
If it wasn't a good article I'd just do this myself, but perhaps I'm missing some nuance here. Dhalamh (talk) 09:34, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

Your suggestion was boldy implemented. Citing online magazine Vulture over the RIAA is ridiculous. Cambial — foliar❧ 10:24, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

1. The SACD booklet gives 5:37 for "Blue in Green", instead of 5:27.
2. The booklet with the SACD says that the tape recorder was running at the wrong speed for the first three tracks, so they were played back sharp and faster on all releases until the gold Mastersound release.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 03:33, 10 August 2022 (UTC)

Good to make a note (or footnote) of these, all referenced to reliable sources, of course... a la Agharta (album)#Track listing. But the main listing of lengths should be the originals, I think. 𝒮𝒾𝓇 𝒯𝑒𝒻𝓁𝑜𝓃 (talk | contribs) 13:27, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
I agree, except maybe list both times.  I presume that the ones on the SACD are different from the originals, but I don't know. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 02:18, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

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