* 1959 – Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the much acclaimed and highly influential best selling jazz recording of all time, is released.

Paul Chambers ( who worked with Miles Davis on the famous Kind of Blue album ) achieved renown for being one of the first jazz bassists to play bebop solos with the bow.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

On October 7, 2008, his 1959 album Kind of Blue received its fourth platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ), for shipments of at least four million copies in the United States.

On December 15, 2009, the U. S. House of Representatives passed a symbolic resolution recognizing and commemorating the album Kind of Blue on its 50th anniversary, " honoring the masterpiece and reaffirming jazz as a national treasure.

In March and April 1959, Davis re-entered the studio with his working sextet to record what is widely considered his magnum opus, Kind of Blue.

According to the RIAA, Kind of Blue is the best-selling jazz album of all time, having been certified as quadruple platinum ( 4 million copies sold ).

* March 2 – Recording sessions for the album Kind of Blue by Miles Davis take place at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City.

* April 22 – Recording sessions for the influential jazz album Kind of Blue by Miles Davis take place at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City.

** Columbia Records releases Miles Davis ' groundbreaking album, Kind of Blue.

Originating in the late 1950s and 1960s, modal jazz is epitomized by Miles Davis's " Milestones " ( 1958 ), Kind of Blue ( 1959 ), and John Coltrane's classic quartet from 1960 – 64.

Kind of Blue is an exploration of the possibilities of modal jazz.

The compositions " So What " and " All Blues " from Kind of Blue are considered contemporary jazz standards.

While Davis ' explorations of modal jazz were sporadic throughout the 1960s — he would include several of the tunes from Kind of Blue in the repertoire of his " Second Great Quintet "— Coltrane would take the lead in extensively exploring the limits of modal improvisation and composition with his own classic quartet, featuring Elvin Jones ( drums ), McCoy Tyner ( piano ), and Reggie Workman and Jimmy Garrison ( bass ).

In 1959, then immersed in modal jazz, he recorded Kind of Blue, the best-selling jazz album of all time.

* March 2 – The first of two recording sessions for the extremely influential Miles Davis album Kind of Blue takes place.

* Kind of Blue – Miles Davis

Adderley is remembered for his 1966 single " Mercy Mercy Mercy ", a crossover hit on the pop charts, and for his work with trumpeter Miles Davis, including on the epochal album Kind of Blue ( 1959 ).

Adderley played on the seminal Davis records Milestones and Kind of Blue.

Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released August 17, 1959, on Columbia Records in the United States.

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

Pianist Bill Evans, who had studied with Russell but recently departed from Davis's sextet to pursue his own career, was drafted back into the new recording project, the sessions that would become Kind of Blue.

Kind of Blue was recorded in two sessions at Columbia Records ' 30th Street Studio in New York City.

The five master takes issued, however, were the only other complete takes ; an insert for the ending to " Freddie Freeloader " was recorded, but was not used for release or on the issues of Kind of Blue prior to the 1997 reissue.

* The Fugitive Kind ( 1959 )

Magnani worked with Tennessee Williams again in his 1959 film, The Fugitive Kind ( originally titled, Orpheus Descending ) directed by Sidney Lumet, where she played Lady Torrance and starred with Marlon Brando.

The cool influence stretches into such later developments as bossa nova, modal jazz ( especially in the form of Davis's Kind of Blue ( 1959 )), and even free jazz ( in the form of Jimmy Giuffre's 1961-1962 trio ).

* That Kind of Woman ( 1959 ) Sophia Loren and Jack Warden dance on the Staten Island Ferry.

* Sophia Loren in That Kind of Woman, 1959

* That Kind of Woman ( 1959 )

In 1959, a screen adaptation under the title The Fugitive Kind was directed by Sidney Lumet.

* That Kind of Woman ( 1959 )

* That Kind of Woman ( 1959 )

During the 1950s, Moore worked steadily in films like The Great Rupert ( 1950 ), Two of a Kind ( 1951 ), Man on a Tightrope ( 1953 ), Daddy Long Legs ( 1955 ), Between Heaven and Hell ( 1956 ), Bernardine ( 1957 ), A Private's Affair ( 1959 ), and Why Must I Die?

He appears on Davis ' seminal 1959 album Kind of Blue, replacing Bill Evans on the track " Freddie Freeloader ".

After serving in the military, Kelly worked with Washington ( 1955 – 1957 ), Charles Mingus ( 1956 – 1957 ), and the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band ( 1957 ), but he would be most famous for his stint with Miles Davis ( 1959 – 1963 ), recording such albums with him as Kind of Blue, At the Blackhawk, and Someday My Prince Will Come.

* Kind of Blue ( 1959 )

Although Davis had garnered acclaim for Kind of Blue, the entrance of Ornette Coleman and free jazz via his fall 1959 residency at the Five Spot Café and his albums for Atlantic Records had created controversy, and turned attention away from Davis.

Martin Williams, writing for the Saturday Review, called it " an exceptional recital, Davis's best album in some time, and clear evidence of his continuing dedication as an improvising musician ", while stating that it is " directly in the tradition of the ' experimental ' Davis recordings, the tradition established by Kind of Blue in 1959 — an album whose implications jazz musicians are still exploring — and continued by ESP of 1965 — an album which seemed to me much less successful ".

* The Fugitive Kind ( 1959 )

His acclaimed 1959 album Kind of Blue is generally stated to be the best-selling jazz album of all time, although the data is not conclusive.