All Blues
"All Blues" is a jazz composition by Miles Davis first appearing on the influential 1959 album Kind of Blue. It is a twelve-bar blues in ; the chord sequence is that of a basic blues and made up entirely of seventh chords, with a VI in the turnaround instead of just the usual V chord. In the song's original key of G this chord is an E7. "All Blues" is an example of modal blues in G mixolydian.
A particularly distinctive feature of the piece is the bass line that repeats through the whole piece, except when a V or VI chord is reached. Further, there is a harmonically similar vamp that is played by the horns at the beginning and then continued by the piano under any solos that take place. Each chorus is usually separated by a four-bar vamp which acts as an introduction to the next solo/chorus.
While originally an instrumental piece, lyrics were later added by Oscar Brown Jr.Personnel
