Miles Davis Kind of Blue (180 Gram Vinyl) 10/19/2010 Criteria Studios

Criteria Studios

Roger McGuinn (background vocals)

When My first Wife Left Me

Includes liner notes by Bob Altshuler

the elegant song is full of self-deprecatory asides and dark longing

Miles Davis Kind of Blue (180 Gram Vinyl) 10/19/2010 Criteria StudiosKind of Blue isn't merely an artistic highlight for Miles Davis, it's an album that towers above its peers, a record generally considered as the definitive jazz album. To be reductive, it's the Citizen Kane of jazz an accepted work of greatness that's innovative and entertaining. That may not mean it's the greatest jazz album ever made, but it certainly is a universally acknowledged standard of excellence. Why does Kind of Blue posses such a mystique?