Episode 70, Miles Davis and The Most Popular Jazz Record of All Time

from Discovering Jazz · host Larry Saidman

It’s Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis, first released in 1959. It still sells more per year than any current jazz recordings. Why? And why do critics also rate it as one of the best albums of all time? I quote a few critics and musicologists, play

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