Kind of Blue

One of my favourite jazz albums of all time, Miles at his best, with a great band. I had this on CD and felt I needed it on vinyl

Excellent.

Absolutely sublime sound. Excellent pressing, makes a change from most out there. Strongly recommend

My review is for the Legacy edition only and only with concern for the quality of the recording as the content is legend. Like just about every other historic album, there are many different CD releases on the market of the same thing, well not quite. Older digital recordings are often flawed by a rush to market philosophy, combined with early digital recording technology. Later so called remasters using state of the art equipment, are more often than not much worse due to over compression and equalisation. It has been a marketing con of record companies and corporations to promote these louder dynamically squashed rehashes as remasters. I have been caught all too many times by what should have been a better quality sound recording, to find it was in fact much worse. Back to Kind of Blue (Legacy Edition). Recorded back in 1959 on 3 - track tape and remastered for this edition by Mark Wilder, who was clearly on a mission to produce not only the best quality of sound but also an authenticity of the sound at that time, the result is stunningly good. It is hard to believe it possible that a recording made on 3- track magnetic tape 56 years ago could sound so alive, alive in a kind of magical way that almost takes you back to that time and place. There are so many works of great musical art now available to us all, sadly there are so few that do justice to the original recording of that art, it is I believe criminal, but a crime to which this recording is not guilty.

Though I have a huge collection of jazz greats, this album remains at the very top of the pile, with its status as the best ever jazz album still securely intact. Like Citizen Kane in film and Fitzgerald’s Gatsby in literature, this album is up there right at the very top. Only a handful of albums come close to this one, but they still haven’t knocked it from its pinnacle of pure pleasure and excellence. One day, however, they might and some albums now come very close to doing so, like Kamasi Washington’s recent album: The Epic. But we are quite not there yet, and still some way from it, in my opinion. Every track on Kind of Blue is beautifully done and all are absolute exemplars of perfection, though (if pushed) my favourite track would be the final track Flamenco Sketches (#5), by which time you are floating through the air with the album’s sublime melodies. If you are new to jazz you cannot go wrong with this fabulous album by Miles Davis. Highly recommended and still the best jazz album ever, without question. I hope you find my review helpful.

Great album and nice pressing

Really great vynyl one of the very best jazz musicians

Best version of this album I have had until now is on Vinyl. Have got a couple of non SACD CD's, one of which is a 'remastered' (rubbish). This SACD version is the best digital version I've now got. Some may argue it's better than the vinyl - depends on what equipment it's all being played on