'A masterpiece in its own right' - Publishers Weekly Paperback edition of the fascinating and extraordinary story of the recording of what many consider to be the greatest jazz album ever made - 'Kind of Blue'. Recorded by Miles Davis with pianist Bill Evans, tenor saxophonist John Coltrane, composer/theorist George Russell, and Cannonball Adderly, the album represented a fortuitous conflation of some of the real giants of the jazz world at a time when they were at the very top of their profession.