Kind of Blue

I guess it's by accident, but the first wave of blooms in the garden is dominated by blues and purples. The striking blue Indigo, right on schedule for Memorial Day, salvia, sage, and masses of purple-blue bergamot. For balance, there is a splash of pink and white Columbine (and a blue one), the pink multiflora rose, and white spirea.

Speaking of blue, I have long held that the Miles Davis album, Kind of Blue, is perhaps the greatest single recording in the entire jazz repertoire. Evidently, I'm not far off. I recently heard that the disc, recorded in 1959, still sells some 5,000 copies a week. That's over a quarter-million copies a year, 45 years later. The all-star band features Miles on trumpet, Cannonball Adderly on alto, John Coltrane on tenor, Bill Evans on piano (except for Wynton Kelly on one track), Paul Chamers on bass, and Jimmy Cobb on drums. If you don't own it, you should.