American Icons: Kind of Blue

Studio 360

Even if you’ve never bought a jazz album in your life, you’ve heard Miles Davis‘ masterpiece, Kind of Blue — at a party, in a movie, or in a restaurant. As part of Studio 360’s award-winning series on American Icons, Ave Carrillo tries to figure out what it is that makes Kind of Blue so extraordinary.

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