Sixty years ago, a number of albums came of the NYC jazz scene that are still influencing musicians, shaping how jazz is made: Miles Davis’s Kind Of Blue; John Coltrane’s Giant Steps; Ornette Coleman’s The Shape Of Jazz To Come; Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Gershwin Songbook; Charles Mingus’s Ah-Uhm. In this discussion we try to understand what made that year so special, with audio recordings and video excerpts.
