The power of their collaboration is evident on the five haunting tracks of Kind of Blue but their relationship was later to be soured by arguments over authorship. That morning before the date I went to his apartment. I don't think anybody did - that it would have the influence and duration it did. Since the death of Davis in 1991, the legend has grown larger. But even before his passing, Kind of Blue was the recording that a vast majority called his defining masterwork.
Critics revere it as a stylistic milestone.
Musicians acknowledge its influence and have recorded hundreds of versions of the music on the album. Yet Kind of Blue lives and prospers outside the confines of the jazz community. Many of its admirers are forced to reach back before the modem era to find its measure. You know, you always cry, or at least I do. Hollywood films in the 90s employed the album as an instant signifier of hip.