Generally recognised as the highest selling jazz album of all time; it is featured on lists of "Jazz albums that even non-jazz fans will like"; it has been said "if you don't like this album, you don't like jazz"... all of this and various other plaudits have been dumped on it over the years.
Miles was bored with bebop and had experimented with modal jazz on the 'milestones' album, he went full modal here.
I've said it before, this is not my favourite Miles album... I like it, but then I prefer my jazz to be slightly wilder and 'in your face' whereas "Kind of Blue" is just a nice, laid-back, easy jazz album. I would say though, it's never boring, and with its personnel consisting of Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderly, Wynton Kelly and Jimmy Cobb... it was always likely to be good.
"All Blues" is (to my tastes) the most melodically interesting track on the album.
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