20 Apr 2017

Great Album: Kind of Blue (Miles Davis)

From Afternoons, 1:43 pm on 20 April 2017

Today's Great Album is, according to some sources, the biggest selling jazz record of all time. And although there is some dispute over exact figures, most critics agree that it is jazz's greatest record. Kind of Blue was recorded in 1959 by the legendary Miles Davis and, in 2003, was ranked number 12 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. To help us delve more deeply into this masterpiece is Jazz aficionado and the Publisher at Victoria University Press, Fergus Barrowman.