<p>'It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.'<br><br><br>Miles Davis's Kind of Blue is the best selling piece of music in the history of jazz, and for many listeners among the most haunting in all of twentieth-century music. It is also, notoriously, the only jazz album many people own. Recorded in 1959 (in nine miraculous hours), there has been nothing like it...