From the moment it was recorded more than 40 years ago, Miles Davis's Kind of Blue was hailed as a jazz classic. To this day it remains the bestselling jazz album of all time, embraced by fans of all musical genres. The Making of Kind of Blue is an exhaustively researched examination of how this masterpiece was born. Recorded with pianist Bill Evans, tenor saxophonist John Coltrane, composer/theorist George Russell, Cannonball Adderly and Miles himself, the album represented a fortuitous conflation of some of the real giants of the jazz world at a time when they were at the top of their musical game. The end result was a recording that would forever change the face of American music. Nisenson is an accomplished biographer, and his scholarship has yielded an immensely readable story of the making of the greatest jazz album of all time.