Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, one of the the best-selling jazz albums of all time, is released. (See previous posts here and here.)
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb were in the middle of a run at Birdland, but Monday nights were the club’s weekly jam session (and their night off).
Below are some of the reviews, which were mostly glowing.
From Down Beat: “an album of extreme beauty and sensitivity.”
From Vogue’s holiday record guide: “a joy to hear.”
From the Washington Post: “It’s hard to avoid getting hysterical about a record as lovely, mysterious and delightful as Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue.”
From the Austin Statesman: “unique and quietly exciting”
From the Afro-American:
From Billboard: “wonderfully bluesy and yet imaginative jazz”
From Seventeen (!):
A Billboard jazz chart from late November 1959:
For some reason, the New York Times was just about the only place to miss the memo, crediting most of the album’s success to Bill Evans and asserting that Coltrane and Adderley were ill-suited to the project:
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