FEEDBACK

After reading Scott Timberg’s article on Miles Davis’ iconic album “Kind of Blue” (“From out of the ‘Blue,’ ” May 10), I pulled out my recently remastered and re-pressed LP and gave it a spin. Timberg failed to mention how well this album was recorded. John Coltrane’s tenor sax is right there. It was, according to Ashley Kahn’s book on the making of “Kind of Blue,” recorded at the now-defunct Columbia 30th Street studios. I’m sure Mingus and Brubeck recorded in the same wonderful space.

And speaking of Brubeck, I find it amusing that Timberg refers to Brubeck’s album “Time Out,” which included the hit “Take Five.” How come “All Blues” and “So What?” were not referred to as “hits”? After all, they, like “Take Five,” have been recorded by other artists many hundreds of times and are included in what Timberg refers to as the best-selling jazz record of all time.

I sense that Timberg is suggesting that “Take Five” was intended to be a hit. I don’t think Paul Desmond, Brubeck’s alto sax player and the composer of “Take Five,” intended it to be a hit any more that Miles intended “Kind of Blue” to be a hit.

Allan V. Pena

San Pedro