What is the style of Freddie Freeloader?
Davis employed Wynton Kelly as the pianist for this track in place of Bill Evans, as Kelly was something of a blues specialist.
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Freddie Freeloader.
"Freddie Freeloader" | |
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Composition by Miles Davis | |
Released | August 17, 1959 |
Recorded | March 2, 1959 |
Genre | Modal jazz |
Is Freddie Freeloader a 12 bar blues?
Historically, “Freddie Freeloader” heralds a return to the roots of the blues, using what is essentially a very basic 12-bar blues progression after the heyday of bebop, in which jazz players would use more and more harmonically sophisticated chord addition and substitutions whenever possible.