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"Nardis" is a composition by American jazz musician Miles Davis. It was written in 1958, during Davis's modal period, to be played by Cannonball Adderley for the album ''Portrait of Cannonball''. The piece has come to be associated with pianist Bill Evans, who recorded it repeatedly. ==Composition== From 1955 to 1958, Miles Davis was leading what would come to be called his First Great Quintet. By 1958, the group consisted of John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums,〔Richard Cook. ''It's About That Time: Miles Davis On and Off Record.'' New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-19-532266-8, pp. 44-45.〕 and had just been expanded to a sextet with the addition of Cannonball Adderley on alto saxophone. Coltrane's return to Davis’s group in 1958 coincided with the "modal phase" albums: ''Milestones'' (1958) and ''Kind of Blue'' (1959) are both considered essential examples of 1950s modern jazz. Davis at this point was experimenting with modes—i.e. scale patterns other than major and minor.〔(Milestones – Encyclopedia Britannica Online )〕 In mid-1958, Bill Evans replaced Garland on piano and Jimmy Cobb replaced Jones on drums, but Evans too left after eight months, replaced by Wynton Kelly in late 1958.〔Cook, pp. 93-95, 110.〕〔''Miles Davis and Bill Evans: Miles and Bill in Black & White'', Sept. 2001, Ashley Kahn, JazzTimes.〕 This group backing Davis, Coltrane, and Adderley, with Evans returning for the recording sessions, would make ''Kind of Blue'', often considered the greatest jazz album of all-time.〔(The All-TIME 100 Albums ). Time.com. Retrieved on August 19, 2008.〕〔(The RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time ). Rolling Stone. Retrieved on August 19, 2008.〕〔(Rateyourmusic's 'Top Albums of All-Time' ). Rate Your Music. Retrieved on August 19, 2008.〕〔(Tower.com – Kind of Blue review notes ). Tower.com. Retrieved on August 19, 2008.〕 Adderley left the band in September 1959 to pursue his own career, returning the line-up to a quintet.〔Cook, p. 123.〕 In July 1958, Evans appeared as a sideman in Adderley's album ''Portrait of Cannonball'', that featured the first performance of "Nardis", specially written by Davis for the session. While Davis was not very satisfied with the performance, he said that from then on, Evans was the only one to play it in the way he wanted. The piece would come to be associated with Evans's future trios, which played it frequently. The use of the Phrygian mode and the minor Gypsy scale〔Evans explicitly deems the work as very "modal", see quote.〕 in this tune is also present in other "Spanish" works from those dates, like Davis's ''Sketches of Spain.'' Davis never recorded "Nardis", and Adderley only did once. George Russell recorded it on his album "Ezz-Thetics." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nardis (composition)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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