Some 50 years after jazz legend
Miles Davis recorded what has since become the best-selling jazz album of all time, "
Kind of Blue" was honored by the U.S. House of representatives earlier week.
The House voted Tuesday to honor the landmark album's contribution to the genre, the Associated Press reports.
For the album, Davis collaborated with saxophonists
John Coltrane and
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, and pianists
Bill Evans and
Wynton Kelly, along with bassist
Paul Chambers and drummer
Jimmy Cobb.
Rep. John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat who sponsored the measure, said the group "made musical history and changed the artistic landscape of this country and in some ways the world," quotes the AP.
The resolution recognizing the album's 50th anniversary passed on a 409-0 vote.
Columbia Records released the album in August 1959. Earlier this year, it was re-released in a 50th-anniversary form, expanded and remastered.
The original — only 37 minutes — greatly impacted all genres of music — from rock musicians such as the
Allman Brothers and
Carlos Santana to bare-bones composers such as
Steve Reich and
Philip Glass.
Davis, one of the greatest trumpeters in jazz history, died at age 65 from stroke in 1991. He was possibly most famous for morphing his cool, "skronky" jazz into sounds that later birthed jazz funk and hip-hop.
Cobb is the only musician from the "Kind of Blue" album who is still alive.
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