# Miles Davis — So What

Miles Davis’s So What (1959) appears on 2 of our lists — Jazz and Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records, highest at No. 2 in Jazz. Every verdict, in full.

- **Released:** 1959
- **Label:** Columbia
- **On:** Jazz and Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records
- **Updated:** 2026-08-30
- **Artist:** [Miles Davis](https://waxonia.com/artist/miles-davis/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/miles-davis--so-what/

## What 2 lists say

### No. 2 in [Jazz](https://waxonia.com/genre/jazz/)

Two chords and an instruction to stop running changes. Kind of Blue remains the best-selling jazz record ever made because it is also one of the calmest and most radical.

### Picked by [Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records](https://waxonia.com/selection/laurent-garnier-a-life-in-records/)

While recording The Man With The Red Face I could not tell the jazz musicians what I wanted, because I did not have the words. A friend handed me Kind of Blue and said: study this, learn the vocabulary.

## Listen

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