In this video, music historian Ted Gioia looks at the most famous jazz album of all time, Miles Davis's Kind of Blue. He asks why this music has achieved so many accolades and whether it deserves its reputation as the premier jazz recording.
This is the latest installment in a series of unscripted videos in which Ted Gioia addresses key matters related to music and culture.
For more information on Ted Gioia, visit his website at http://www.tedgioia.com or follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/tedgioia. Be on the lookout for his next book, Music: A Subversive History, which will be released by Basic Books in 2019.