kind of blue revisited

I've been listening to Miles Davis's Kind of Blue tonight. Haven't gotten it out in such a long time. It's one of those things that's overplayed and overfamiliar, and, since it's one of those must-have recordings for people who are just getting into jazz, it's easy to think one is "past" it when one moves further in.

Easy, but entirely wrong. What a great masterwork it is! One of the great works of the twentieth century, pulling off that Shakespearean simultaneous appeal to commoners and insiders.