Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue

Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released on August 17, 1959, by Columbia Records.

For this album, Davis led a sextet featuring saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, pianist Bill Evans, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Jimmy Cobb, with new band pianist Wynton Kelly replacing Evans on "Freddie Freeloader." The album was recorded at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City over two sessions on March 2 and April 22, 1959. Influenced in part by Evans, who had been a member of the ensemble in 1958 and was brought back for this project, Davis moved further away from his earlier hard bop style, favoring greater experimentation with musical modes—as heard in the title track of his previous album, Milestones (1958). Building Kind of Blue entirely on modal frameworks, Davis provided each musician with a set of scales that defined the boundaries for their improvisation and stylistic expression, allowing for more creative freedom in melodic development. Coltrane would later expand on this modal approach in his own solo career.