Miles In The Sky
by Miles Davis

Miles In The Sky by Miles Davis
Year: 1968
Release date: 1968-07-22
Overall rank: 8,986th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 77 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1968 (115th)
Award Top albums of of the 1960s (642nd)
Award Best albums of all time (8,986th)

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Miles Davis bestography

Miles In The Sky is ranked 33rd best out of 127 albums by Miles Davis on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Miles Davis is Kind Of Blue which is ranked number 36 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 20,873.

Miles Davis album bestography « Higher ranked (8,092nd)
Steamin' With The Miles Davis Quintet
This album (8,986th)
Miles In The Sky
Lower ranked (10,388th) »
The Cellar Door Sessions 1970

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Miles In The Sky rankings summary
Overall rank: 8,986th | 1960s rank: 642nd | 1968 rank: 115th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 77 votes)
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06/14/2026 23:02 Repo  Ratings distribution  2,22685/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.2/100, a mean average of 79.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 9.9.


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If you’re a drummer or have ever had so much as a passing interest in the drums.. listen to this album. (Edited)
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A little-known or praised album, which deservedly should enjoy some praise. A super combo reaches their zenith with hints of the future electric future. Listen to this
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From 11/03/2019 21:58 | #244407
Ousado álbum de transição!
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I've got this on CD, and I'm trying to find out if side one of the original LP was really 29 minutes in 1968--I didn't even know they could do that technically back then. Anyway, it stretches languidly across that 29 minutes, as welcoming and exploratory as Kind Of Blue; jazz and non-jazz fans alike could listen together like they do for that one. Tony Williams practically tears his drum kit apart under(?) other people's solos on "Black Comedy," definitely a highlight. Some people call this a transitional album. Nope. This is the second-to-last album of a band that had been working together for years, and who had evolved together from very hard, focused work--this is not transitional, this is a culmination. One of the really great Miles albums; the second quintet was as good a band as there's ever been.
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