Let's see if I got this right: Kind of Blue was the album that introduced, at least to the mainstream, the idea that jazz songs can merely be frameworks for soloing and such?
Nope. Bebop did that. Kind of blue was an alternative to bop. It introduced the mainstream to a modal approach to jazz that relied on key(mode) changes over several measures instead of chord changes within each measure.
>>74083142
plays a 12 bar blues
omg most innovative album of all time
>>74083211
have you sat through even half the album? baka
>>74083230
To be fair, half of the tunes are 12 bar blues.