Sana K, there isn't a single song on the album with the title "Kind of Blue".......

First of all the name on the album Miles Davis for one thing. I heard and interview years ago on sixty minutes that the late Harry Reasoner did with Miles and he asked Miles about his painting and his comment was it not that I'm a great painter but the name on the painting is Miles Davis. The music was changing from Bebop to straight ahead approach to the music, times were changing and the music was fresh and new, a big different from Bebop. The band members were at the time some of the best in the music. John Coltrane, Julian Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chamber, Jimmy Cobb. Trivia question the only living band member alive today is. Also this record is one of the all time top selling records in jazz even today. Nice glass of wine a beautiful lady and Kind of blue on the turntable you can't go wrong. By the way the answer to my question is Jimmy Cobb today he leads a band call the Cobb Mob. This LP was originally record in 1959, I was eight years old at the time and did not hear the record until 1962 my late father had it in his music collections, thank god he introduce me to the music we call jazz today.

This was a breakthrough album as it was one of the first albums that used 'modal' music, based on blues scales. For example, 'All Blues' is in a dorian blues scale. For the most part, nearly every great jazz album prior to this used major or minor scales.

Additionally, Miles assembled the best musicians of the time for this recording - Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly on piano, Cannonball Adderley on alto, John Coltrane on tenor, Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums. Any one of these guys were strong enough leaders to do albums on their own (and all of them did).

Further, the album was recorded by Rudy van Gelder, the greatest recording engineer in history (in jazz, at least) and produced by Teo Macero, who produced some of the greatest jazz albums of the time on the Columbia label.

This was truly an album of all-stars like nothing done before or since. 'Kind of Blue' defined a sound that was unequaled at the time and stands the test of time to this day. It is the epitome of a 'classic'.

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This was a breakthrough album as it was one of the first albums that used 'modal' music, based on blues scales. For example, 'All Blues' is in a dorian blues scale. For the most part, nearly every great jazz album prior to this used major or minor scales.

Additionally, Miles assembled the best musicians of the time for this recording - Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly on piano, Cannonball Adderley on alto, John Coltrane on tenor, Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums. Any one of these guys were strong enough leaders to do albums on their own (and all of them did).

Further, the album was recorded by Rudy van Gelder, the greatest recording engineer in history (in jazz, at least) and produced by Teo Macero, who produced some of the greatest jazz albums of the time on the Columbia label.

This was truly an album of all-stars like nothing done before or since. 'Kind of Blue' defined a sound that was unequaled at the time and stands the test of time to this day. It is the epitome of a 'classic'.

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the song itself

It was revolutionary - pushed musical boundaries in ways that hadn't been thought of, and influenced all works that followed it. - is there a single song on the album which hasn't become a jazz standard?

It was revolutionary - pushed musical boundaries in ways that hadn't been thought of, and influenced all works that followed it. - is there a single song on the album which hasn't become a jazz standard?