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3/25/09: Kind of Blue

By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, UT – In 1959, trumpet player Miles Davis gathered a few musicians like John Coltrane and Bill Evans and laid down five tracks that would change the course of music history. 50 years later "Kind of Blue" is still the best-selling jazz album of all-time. Wednesday on RadioWest, Doug talks to music historian Ashley Kahn about "Kind of Blue" and the standard it set for cool.

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