Recorded with pianist Bill Evans, tenor saxophonist John Coltrane, composer/theorist George Russell and Miles himself, the album represented a fortuitous conflation of some of the real giants of the jazz world, at a time when they were at the top of their musical game. The Making of Kind of Blue is an exhaustively researched examination of how this masterpiece was born. The album represented a true watershed moment in jazz history, and helped to usher in the first great jazz revolution since bebop. To this day it remains the bestselling jazz album of all time, embraced by fans of all musical genres. From the moment it was recorded more than 40 years ago, Miles Davis's Kind of Blue was hailed as a jazz classic.
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