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Hello, my name is Rafael Diament and I’m a native Spanish speaker, so excuse me for my mistakes while trying to write this in English. Here I go.

This must be one of the greatest themes in all the history of jazz. It resembles the common noise of the big city, mainly New York like it was then. I would like to quote just the description posted in the wikipedia.

“Freddie Freeloader” is a composition by Miles Davis and is the second track on his seminal album Kind of Blue. The piece takes the form of a twelve-bar blues in B-flat, but the chord over the final two bars of each chorus is an A-flat7, not the traditional B-flat7 followed by either F7 for a turnaround or some variation of B-flat7 for an ending. Davis employed Wynton Kelly as the pianist for this track in place of Bill Evans, as Kelly was something of a blues specialist. The solos are by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, and Wynton Kelly.

According to the documentary Kind of Blue: Made in Heaven, the song was named after an individual named Freddie who would frequently try to see the music Davis and others performed without paying (thus freeloading). The name may have also been inspired by Red Skelton’s most famous character, “Freddie the Freeloader” the hobo clown.

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dog_face wrote:
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great great great

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last month

delightful!

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presistant wrote:
last month

walking through ever changing doors.

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hoseyman2001 wrote:
last month

sublime

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chaub wrote:
October 2009

This is my head cleaner music

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umler wrote:
October 2009

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tapiecero wrote:
September 2009

grootse jazz !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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trumpetworld wrote:
August 2009

love this tune www.trumpet-world.com

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WonderPat wrote:
August 2009

rashidvally: Wow, that's a neat story. If I were alive 50 years ago (or even 30, haha), I wonder what I would have thought of this stuff. Currently, I just love it, especially this song. I wish I could have introduced people to this song and the "Kind of Blue" album back in the day! Most of my friends find it "boring" now.

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DAGRAY wrote:
August 2009

firsta class 5 star ,just chill .

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pouring_reign wrote:
August 2009

Music from the exceptional!

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BorisMichael wrote:
August 2009

I second that! This is certainly my favorite album of all time.

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kgkelt wrote:
July 2009

miles brought out the best in all of the other artists who performed with him.

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rashidvally wrote:
June 2009

I used to run a Jazz Store in Johannesburg in South Africa.50 years ago I used to play FREDDIE....every morning for my clients.I tell you this among other jazz tracks helped us get through those APARTHEID YEARS.Viva Long live JAZZ. Rashid Vally

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djraghkstar wrote:
June 2009

love this. classic miles. [www.twitter.com/djraghkstar / www.myspace.com/djraghkstar]

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Russo31 wrote:
June 2009

chill the war

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sexualrobotics wrote:
May 2009

There is a little Freddie Freeloader in each of us.

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bobsinisi wrote:
May 2009

Yes...

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tadrym wrote:
May 2009

Super- extra!

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cgarodriguez wrote:
May 2009

De primera, buenisimo

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