* 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.

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.

Alfonso IV, called the Kind ( also the Gentle or the Nice, ) ( 1299, Naples – 24 January 1336 ) was the King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona ( as Alfonso III ) from 1327 to his death.

This idea was used by Steven Spielberg for his science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which features the lost Flight 19 aircrews as alien abductees.

] When he had done eating, he usually took a Kind of Chocolate, made after the Manner of the Country, that is, the Substance of the Nut beat up with the Mill till the Cup was filled more with Froth than with Liquor ; after which he used to smoak Tobacco perfum'd with liquid Amber.

" His only other single as a solo artist was a follow-up release, " The Revolution Kind ", which reached number 70 on the Billboard Hot 100 later that same year.

Their original career produced three LPs: Another Music in a Different Kitchen, Love Bites, and A Different Kind of Tension, each supported by extensive touring in Europe and the U. S. Their trademark sound was a marriage of catchy pop melodies with punk guitar energy, backed by an unusually tight and skilled rhythm section.

* Robert Hamer, film director and screenwriter, known for his 1949 comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, starring Dennis Price and Alec Guinness, was born in Kidderminster on 31 March 1911.

The album was very successful, producing a string of hits, including the title track, " A Kind of Magic ".

Limited use of 65 mm film was revived in the late 1970s for some of the visual effects sequences in films like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, mainly because the larger negative did a better job than 35 mm negative of minimizing visible film grain during optical compositing.

However, following the success of the science fiction movies Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the planned pilot episode entitled " In Thy Image " was adapted into a theatrical production, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Carlo Rambaldi, who designed the aliens for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, was hired to design the animatronics of E. T.

Besides E. T., some believe that another earlier Spielberg film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 ), was also inspired by The Alien.

As Comeau was also a singer, backing vocals on The Killing Kind and subsequent albums were more elaborate and frequent than before, adding another new element to the band's sound.

Press response to The Killing Kind was very positive, but the album remains a hotly contested topic among the band's audience, with some longtime fans resistant to the new modern elements, and others hailing The Killing Kind as one of the band's finest moments.

While once again quite different from the previous records and musically not considered " classic " Overkill, the album was vocally even more experimental than The Killing Kind, and was well received by fans and critics alike.

Leeds Castle was a shooting location for the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets where it stands in for " Chalfont ", the ancestral home of the aristocratic d ' Ascoyne family.

In September 2003 the sculpture Für Das Kind Kindertransport Memorial by artist Flor Kent, who conceived the project, was installed in the station.

The character was a success, and reappeared in 1999's Three of a Kind, an episode which focused on the recurring characters of The Lone Gunmen.

Portions of the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind were filmed near the town's Louisville and Nashville Railroad depot ( now razed ) and Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood was filmed in rural portions of Baldwin County near Bay Minette.

Lucas's poem " Spain 1809 " ( in From Many Times and Lands, 1953 ), the story of a Spanish village woman's courage during the French occupation, was turned into the play A Kind of Justice by Margaret Wood ( 1966 ).

" A Sunday Kind of Love " was another Louis Prima composition that became a standard of the swing and big band era.

* In the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, one of the previously alien-abducted characters who was returned to earth at Devil's Tower is identified as " John DeLorean, Bisbee, Arizona ".

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