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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?
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byegolly
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Why not just ask, "Is Kind of Blue the most representative or widely accepted Jazz recording?"

You know, many worship Brubeck's Time Out just as much.

I love the opiate-enriched Anita O'Day signing Sweet Georgia Brown as much as the above, but I'm bent.

It's all subjective. Mary Lou Williams and Ellington would never have got past the word "Jazz" to attempt an answer.

Teo! Teo! (in that hoarse voice) I hear beyond the grave.

Later..
byegolly
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Ihcho:

Muddy Waters in Jazz collection? That's broadening the category, but Ellington would appreciate it cause he hated the categorization of music. Ihcho, you like blues? Here's a good one to listen to: James Ulmer, No Escape from the Blues. Let me know what u think.
byegolly
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Ulmer's nothing like Folk Singer. No Escape is revved-up blues. But I like. This coming from one with a LARGE collection of the old-time blues players.
The Blues Rider Trio Early Morning Blues is another more recent selection of blues I find worthy of occupying its place wedged between Little Walter and Howlin' Wolf. What the hey, give em a try out.
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