Miles Davis – Kind of Blue (1959)
Miles Davis – Kind of Blue (1959)
Miles Davis – Kind of Blue (1959)
By 1959, Miles Davis had already reinvented jazz once. With Kind of Blue, he rewrote the very geometry of sound. A record where silence is as important as note, where every phrase lingers like smoke above the bandstand.
This is not music that hurries or dazzles. It is music that floats — five pieces shaped around modal sketches rather than chord changes, leaving space for improvisation and presence. Coltrane’s tenor stretches against Cannonball’s alto, Bill Evans lays down hushed chords like glass, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb keep time with restraint. Over it all, Davis’s horn is clear, direct, spacious.
To play it on vinyl is to feel a room expand. The sound is intimate but infinite: the crackle of the pressing becomes part of the atmosphere, the kind of listening that turns any evening into a ritual.
Why we’ve chosen it for the Tracks & Tales
Because Kind of Blue isn’t just a jazz record — it’s the foundation of any listening library. Essential for bars, for living rooms, for anyone who believes music should shape a space.
Details
- 180g black vinyl pressing
- Stereo sound
- Featuring Miles Davis (t), Cannonball Adderley (a. sax), John Coltrane (t. sax), Bill Evans (p), Wynton Kelly (p), Paul Chambers (b), Jimmy Cobb (d)
- Original release year: 1959
- Label: Columbia (2019 reissue)
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