Kind of Blue (stereo)

Notes

Recording location: Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York NY, USA
Recording label: Columbia
Formation: Miles Davis Sextet
#1–3:
March 2, 1959
Miles Davis (tpt); Julian “Cannonball” Adderley (as); John Coltrane (ts); Bill Evans (p); Wynton Kelly (p); Paul Chambers (b); Jimmy Cobb (d)
#4–5:
April 22, 1959
Same personnel, but omit Kelly

Note that Adderley is out on Blue in Green

Release history

CL 1355 is a mono pressing, while CS 8163 is stereo, as usual with Columbia.

Important Notes

Be aware that this is the original release, with off‐speed three first tracks (approx 9:02 9:33 5:25).
Reissued as such on cd, it got later corrected to either the “track 1 slow fade” version (9:22 9:43 5:32, as seen in the six tracks version of this release), or as “track 1 fast fade” (9:06 9:43 5:33), as seen in the 5 tracks 1992 reissue.
The off‐speed version was largely reprinted during the vinyl era and was issued at least two times on CDs in 1984 & 1987 before later reissues started correcting the off‐speed, some with a slightly wrong pitch…
If you’re attaching either discids or pweeds here, please be careful in the version you choose!