You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.

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".