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▸ 1959–1977
Jazz Cellar
The records that rewrote the rules.
Down a flight of stairs, blue light and cigarette smoke, and players who tore up the rulebook every night. Modal, cool, hard bop, and the fusion explosion — the giants who topped no pop chart but reshaped what music could do. Miles, Coltrane, Brubeck, and the records every other musician studied.
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▸ Did you know
- Miles Davis's 'Kind of Blue' (1959) is the best-selling jazz album of all time — recorded in two sessions, mostly first takes.
- Dave Brubeck's 'Take Five' made the pop charts in 5/4 time, a meter that was supposed to be unhummable.