**** Kind of Blue by Miles Davis – An Album that Started a Revolution of My Personal Disappointment

I won’t say that this is not a good album, but it is not one of the best jazz albums.  However, it is possibly the most influential jazz album ever, as far as its impact on the genre of popular jazz.  There once was a time where jazz had evolved to great complexity, and this album is a rebellion against the standard complexity of the jazz scene at the time, and people loved it, much in the same way that people loved the band Nirvana’s rebellion against the complexity of the popular music of the 1980s.  That is, Nirvana attempted to return music to simplicity, where in Kurt Cobain’s opinion the complexity of the seemingly superhuman guitar solos common to 1980s glam metal.  Thus, Kind of Blue is to generations past, what Nirvana is to my generation.  Nirvana started what is called the 90s rock revolution with their album Nevermind.  However, Kind of Blue is more complex, but it intentionally fell short of the complexity of jazz that was popular in say the 1920s of which I prefer the jazz of the 1920s.  I love Glen Miller, and Benny Goodman much more than what Kind of Blue attempted to do for music even though the quality and production of the music from the earlier era sometimes suffered from problems associable with lack of available technology.  However, when I listen to the static hiss of these early albums even that is better than Kind of Blue.