Miles Davis releases Kind of Blue

1959: Number 28 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance music1959 saw the release of several key jazz albums, each of which found new ways of developing and challenging the innovations of bebop. Dave Brubeck's Time Out transformed baffling time signatures into hummable songs. Charles Mingus's Ah Um placed bebop in an African-American tradition, adding gospel hollers and civil rights radicalism, while Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come took bebop to its logical extreme...

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