Artist	Song
Miles Davis (Kind of Blue, 1959)	Freddie Freeloader
Charles Mingus (Mingus Ah Um, 1959)	Boogie Stop Shuffle
The Dave Brubeck Quartet (Time Out, 1959)	Everybody's Jumpin'
Chet Baker (Chet, 1959)	Time On My Hands (You In My Arms)
Ornette Coleman (The Shape of Jazz to Come, 1959)	Congeniality
John Coltrane (Giant Steps, 1959)	Spiral
Bill Evans Trio (Portrait in Jazz, 1959)	Peri's Scope
Dizzy Gillespie (Have Trumpet, Will Excite!, 1959)	Woody 'n' You
Wes Montgomery (Far Wes, 1959)	Monk's Shop
Thelonious Monk (Thelonious Alone In San Francisco, 1959)	Blue Monk
Sonny Stitt (The Complete Roost Sonny Stitt Studio Sessions, 1959)	Cocktails For Two
Oscar Peterson (Oscar Peterson Plays The Cole Porter Songbook, 1959)	Love For Sale
Gerry Mulligan Quartet (What is There to Say?, 1959)	News from Blueport
Duke Ellington (Blues in Orbit, 1959)	Track 360
Kenny Dorham (Quiet Kenny, 1959)	Lotus Blossom
Harold Land (The Fox, 1959)	One Down
Jimmy Smith (Home Cookin', 1959)	Gracie

Comment:

As these tracks and players suggest, much was going on in 1959, arguably one of jazz history's most fertile years. The impetus for this mix came from reading Ashley Kahn's scant but informative telling of the making of Kind of Blue, in which he notes some of the other things going on at the time. Which in turn lead me to search my vaults for what I had from that year. This is just a sampling. I had to leave a few tracks out, and there is a whack of stuff from that year, of course, that I don't possess. I tried to choose less familiar tracks from the albums in question, although with, say, Kind of Blue, Time Out or the standards-based Chet, it was hard to pick something folks haven't heard umpteen times before. While 1959 was a year of beginnings and innovation, it was also a year that saw three giants - Billie Holiday, Lester Young and Sidney Bechet - pass on. I was going to include the trio as a kind of elegiac coda, but a lack space won out.

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