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Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue at Sixty
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Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue at Sixty

By Timothy Sandefur

Mar 19, 2019
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Miles Davis’s album Kind of Blue turns sixty years old this month. Believed to be the best-selling jazz album ever, it’s a landmark in the history of jazz. In fact, it represented just one phase in the career of an artist who constantly sought new musical territory and who, along the way, sometimes produced works of astonishing beauty.

Davis was a troubl…

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