Some have said that this was simply the greatest jazz group of all time. Miles Davis on trumpet, John Coltrane on tenor sax, Cannonball Adderly on alto sax, James Cobb on drums, Bill Evans on piano, and Paul Chambers on bass. Wynton Kelley also plays piano on one track. This is definitely an album that I think even the most pedestrian of listeners can enjoy. Quite simply, the songs are gorgeous and the playing is stellar. It is definitely an album that you can come home to after a long day, dim the lights, lay back and just chill. At the time, songs like "So What" and "Flamenco Sketches" were new and fresh because they were more modal. Here is an excerpt by Miles himself from his autobiography.

"Kind of Blue also came out of the modal thing I started on Milestones. This time I added some other kind of sound I remembered from being back in Arkansas, when we were walking home from church and they were playing these bad gospels. So that kind of feeling came back to me and I started remembering what that music sounded like and felt like. That feeling is what I was trying to get close to. That feeling had got in my creative blood, my imagination, and I had forgotten it was there. I wrote this blues that tried to get back to that feeling I had when I was six years old, walking with my cousin along that dark Arkansas road.

I didn't write out the music for Kind of Blue, but brought in sketches for what everybody was supposed to play because I wanted a lot of spontaneity in the playing, just like I thought was in the interplay between those dancers and those drummers and that finger piano player with the Ballet Africaine. Everything was a first take, which indicates the level everyone was playing on. It was beautiful." - Miles Davis

This album has certainly influenced countless musicians in all genres and it is certainly one of the biggest selling jazz records of all time.