Special mono reissue of Miles' most iconic record. Kind Of Blue is the most popular straight-jazz album of all time, the one that even those people who don't really listen to jazz but want to seem smart, hip and cultured can connect with. Almost 55 years after its initial release in August 1959, it remains the standard-bearer for an entire culture, and continues to sell in the neighborhood of 100,000 copies a year.

• 180g black vinyl pressing
• mono sound
• featuring Miles Davis (t), Cannonball Adderley (a. sax), John Coltrane (t. sax), Bill Evans (p), Wynton Kelly (p), Paul Chambers (b), Jimmy Cobb (d)
• music label: Columbia 2013

reviewed by Michu Meszaros 12/2013