EDUCATION: Kind of Blue - Why the Best-Selling Jazz Album of All Time is so Great.

{{Miles Davis = 6144}}' Kind of Blue, which was released 50 years ago today, is a nearly unique thing in music or any other creative realm: a huge hitthe best-selling jazz album of all timeand the spearhead of an artistic revolution. Everyone, even people who say they don't like jazz, likes Kind of Blue. It's cool, romantic, melancholic, and gorgeously melodic. But why do critics regard it as one of the best jazz albums ever made? What is it about Kind of Blue that makes it not just pleasant but...

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