50 great moments in jazz: Miles Davis and Kind of Blue

This groundbreaking 1959 album is as close to perfection as jazz gets without sacrificing its spontaneityI had hoped that a blog on the popular and funky Hammond organist Jimmy Smith might attract more than the average number of commentators, but I wasn't prepared for the gratifying deluge of responses following my inclusion of Smith in this series.It has to be said it was a passing disappointment to discover that most of the comments were about the advanced age of the England World Cup squad, w...

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