TOP ALBUM PICK:
Kind of Blue, Miles DavisHow does one properly gauge impact? There’s no smouldering crater in the case of
Kind of Blue, Miles’ melancholy, modal-jazz masterwork. The 1959 disc didn’t arrive with a thunderous clap, yet four decades later, at the end of the millennium, there it was at the top of any and all “best of” lists, nudging aside so many rock, pop and hip-hop recordings.
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