Davis is miles ahead in jazz poll
Ronaldinho  |  by www.thisislondon.co.uk. All rights reserved. 12.04 | 12:04

The Miles Davis classic So What has been voted the best ever jazz record.
The legendary trumpeter and bandleader topped a poll of music fans and also has two other entries in the top 10 - All Blues and Blue In Green.
Davis, who died in 1991, was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year.


All that jazz...

Miles Davis, the legendary trumpeter and bandleader, has topped a poll of music fans with the classic So What


So What featured on the 1959 album Kind Of Blue. Dave Brubeck's Take Five was second in the list, with West End Blues by Louis Armstrong in third place.
John Coltrane features twice in the top 10 with A Love Supreme and My Favourite Things.


There is also an entry for relative newcomer Jamie Cullum, who makes ninth spot with Twentysomething.
Cullum is the only practising musician in the top 10.

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