Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

The relationships within the quintet however were growing tense. Returning to New York in 1958 Davis successfully recruited Cannonball Adderley for his standing group.

House of Representatives passed a symbolic resolution recognizing and commemorating the album Kind of Blue on its 50th anniversary "honoring the masterpiece and reaffirming jazz as a national treasure. S. Davis was noted as "one of the key figures in the history of jazz".