After two recording sessions, Miles Davis had a record that would change the course of twentieth-century music—Kind of Blue.13 Quincy Jones, the revered producer of Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson, said, “I play Kind of Blue every day—it’s my orange juice. It still sounds like it was made yesterday.” Another legend, jazz fusion pioneer Chick Corea, said that while it’s one thing to play a new tune, “it’s another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what Kind of Blue did.”14 And yet Miles Davis and his band improvised this musical revolution from moment to moment.*
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