Is Kind of Blue the Best Jazz Album Ever


Let me begin by qualifying "best", in this case I use the word best to mean the most representative or widely accepted.

Kind of Blue is not my favorite album, but whenever I listen to it I feel that if someone were to ask me what is Jazz I would be compelled to play it, more specifically "So What".

Maybe it is the star studded cast, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderly. On their own these guys are legends. Together?

So the question can be twisted, are they any other jazz albums that could represent what Jazz so perfectly?
nick_sr

Showing 3 responses by mapman

Certainly one of the most popular and successful. Does that make it the "best"?
KOB was stylistically one of the first "modal jazz" albums, I believe, not Be Bop, which was popular prior to KOB in the 1940s and well into the 1950s.
"but seriously, why put KOB over Louis' greatest work"

You wouldn't find me doing that!

Or Ellington's, or even various others.