Kind of Blue

📖 About this album

Landmark 1959 album by Miles Davis, widely regarded as the best-selling jazz record ever made. Recorded in two sessions with an extraordinary ensemble, it pioneered modal jazz and influenced virtually every subsequent jazz musician. A defining document of the form.

📝 Our review

Little more can be said about Kind of Blue. The best-selling jazz album in history and probably the most listened-to. The modal jazz invented here by Miles, Coltrane, Bill Evans and Cannonball Adderley still sounds contemporary. Every track breathes naturally. "So What" and "All Blues" are pieces of musical architecture. Essential listening, the only problem being you can barely hear it with fresh ears anymore.

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