“All Blues” by Miles Davis

"All Blues" opens the second side of Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, released in August 1959, and it floats: a blues in 6/8 that moves through only a handful of modal changes and leaves Davis free to roam. It began life on the bandstand, took shape over six months with some reworking from Gil Evans, and was so new at the session that nothing was written down and it still went by the working title "African". It was the last thing cut for the album.

The lineup is a dream team: Davis on trumpet, John Coltrane on tenor, Cannonball Adderley on alto, Bill Evans on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums, with Irving Townsend producing. The first 50,000 copies of the LP swapped its title with "Flamenco Sketches", and fans argued about which was which for years.

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