Kind Of Blue Turns 50

Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue is considered one of the best albums of all time. It has been featured numerous times in various top ten lists and has sold millions of copies worldwide. It is a staple in my car’s six disc CD changer as it is the perfect music for a variety of moods. To mark the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking work, Columbia/Legacy, a division of Sony, is putting out a luxury collector’s edition which includes two compact discs of the original album, plus outtakes and alternative versions, a documentary DVD and more.

There is also a Miles Davis exhibition planned for the Cite de la Musique complex in Paris and a feature film starring Don Cheedle as the famously idiosyncratic artist.

Kind of Blue featured the iconic Davis and his band, Julian “Cannonball” Adderley on alto saxophone, John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Bill Evans or Wynton Kelly on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and drummer Jimmy Cobb, the only surviving member.