Jazz Blues Genre with Vocals?

Though precise figures have been disputed, Kind of Blue has been cited by many music writers not only as Davis's best-selling album, but as the best-selling jazz record of all time.

On October 7, 2008, it was certified quadruple platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It has been regarded by many critics as the greatest jazz album of all time and Davis's masterpiece, and it has been ranked at or near the top of several "best album" lists in disparate genres.

The album's influence on music, including jazz, rock and classical music, has led music writers to acknowledge it as one of the most influential albums of all time.

In 2002, it was one of fifty recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 12 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. .

People hem and haw and beat around the bush about it, but I’ll come out and say it: Billie Holiday is the single most important female artist of the 20th century.

I would take it a step further and say she’s the most important artist of our time, period, but this is a piece about one album and I don’t have eight paragraphs to state my case.

Why was she so goddamn important? Because she did what no one else"certainly no man"could ever do: she fused the personality and emotion of the blues with the technical ecstasy of jazz.

Whether it was the heroin, her ragged home life, or her past as a prostitute and abandoned child that enabled her to defy any and every convention placed in her way is irrelevant.

When other dynamic performers of the era allowed themselves to be turned aside, Eleanora Fagan Gough simply kept on going. At the top of her game, nothing, no one could touch her for pure untrammeled emotion.

thanks guys and girls.