Kind of Blue

More long flights means more serious iPod listening and this time, to drown out all the coughing, sneezing and wheezing that was going on around me for 14 hours from Los Angeles to Hong Kong, I got stuck into some serious Miles Davis listening. How good are Sketches of Spain, Bitches Brew and ‘Round About Midnight. Seriously, these albums are just so incredible I wouldn’t even know where to start if I had to write properly about them but, as amazing as they are, for me it’s all about Kind of Blue. Honestly, I have listened to this record time and time again and it just gets better with every listen. From the opening track, So What, to the final masterpiece, Flamenco Sketches, this, for me, is a flawless recording and jazz at its absolute best. With Miles Davis on trumpet and John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly alongside him, each song rolls into the next seamlessly and the sound the band produces is simply magical . It doesn’t get much better than this and, the more I think about it, the more I realize every note these guys play is perfect.