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
It is by far the best of all time. It smokes every other album out there and makes Louis, Dizzy and Bird sound broken.
Wow, Lokie,

And here I thought I was the King of Sarcasm.
(Apparently, I am only the Prince.)

;-)
I think it is the "best" jazz album for non Jazz fans that later become Jazz fans.

Does that make sense?

I thought it was the best till I discovered the HardBop Blue Notes.

If had never heard Kind of Blue ..... I doubt I would have discovered the others.

JMHO

Ken
Certainly one of the most popular and successful. Does that make it the "best"?