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How Miles Davis's Kind of Blue shaped 50 years of music

The jazz landmark, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in August, has forever changed the way in which we listen to musicSince Columbia/Sony reissued its 50th anniversary box set of Miles Davis's Kind of Blue a year prematurely in 2008, it feels as if we've already been celebrating this transformational moment in the evolution of 20th-century music for a long time.However, Kind of Blue was first released in August 1959 â€“ so for those keen on sticking to precise dates, its official anniv...

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11:09 on August 20 2009

How Miles Davis's Kind of Blue shaped 50 years of music

Guardian Music — The jazz landmark, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in August, has forever changed the way in which we listen to musicSince Columbia/Sony reissued its 50th anniversa... more info

07:20 on August 20 2009

Kind of Bloop: Miles Davis as Video Game Music

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Miles Davis

16:12 on August 20 2009

WEB/TECH: Kind of Bloop: Miles Davis as Video Game Music

All About Jazz — {{Miles Davis = 6144}} probably never played Nintendo. It's technically possible; the genre-bending, stereotype-defying jazz legend lived until 1991, six years after the ... more info

Miles Davis

07:18 on August 21 2009

EVENT: The Score: Rebirth of the Cool - Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble Pays Tribute to Miles Davis

All About Jazz — By Christopher DeLaurenti Was any other revolution in jazz so suave? When Miles Davis led a two-week stand at New York's fabled Royal Roost in 1948, the music—comp... more info

Miles Davis The Score