Over two spring days in 1959, trumpeter Miles Davis convened five other musicians at a Manhattan studio for a new recording project.

Drummer Jimmy Cobb is the last surviving performer from the celebrated album, which also featured jazz legends John Coltrane, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley and Bill Evans.

Miles Davis used his recording style in “Elevator to the Gallows” as a bluprint for Kind of Blue, simply use modes and tones to make sketches with his trumpet top-lining over the band’s playing.

During this recording, the group watched the movie scene for which they were recording in silence, and played adjusting for the mood they discerned.

Kind of Blue is famous for its sound. It was recorded at 30th Street Studio in New York City, a transformed space that was once a church and at the time had been converted into a recording studio with in a massive hall.

Miles believed in and commonly applied the idea that the first thought is the best thought. In Kind of Blue, each track is the recording of the very first take the band had performing the respective piece.

Miles Davis and Bill Evans.

The band lists John Coltrane and Julian Adderley on saxophones, Bill Evans on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Jimmy Cobb on drums.