Released in 1959 as the first track of Miles Davis’s quintessential album Kind of Blue, “So What” is a relatively simple blues jazz piece.
It begins with an extended improvised bass solo which eventually morphs into the bass line of the song. “So What” is one of a very few jazz pieces where the bas...
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So What was written by Miles Davis.
So What was produced by Irving Townsend.
Miles Davis released So What on Mon Aug 17 1959.
On April 2, 1959, four months before Kind of Blue released, Miles Davis and his quintet performed “So What” at Studio 61 in New York as part of the CBS program, The Robert Herridge Theater.