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Last updated at 09:52am on 10.04.07

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The Miles Davis classic So What has been voted the best ever jazz record.

The legendary trumpeter and bandleader topped a poll of music fans and also has two other entries in the top 10 - All Blues and Blue In Green.

Davis, who died in 1991, was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year.

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All that jazz... Miles Davis, the legendary trumpeter and bandleader, has topped a poll of music fans with the classic So What

So What featured on the 1959 album Kind Of Blue. Dave Brubeck's Take Five was second in the list, with West End Blues by Louis Armstrong in third place.

John Coltrane features twice in the top 10 with A Love Supreme and My Favourite Things.

There is also an entry for relative newcomer Jamie Cullum, who makes ninth spot with Twentysomething.

Cullum is the only practising musician in the top 10.

He was signed by Universal in a £1 million record deal in 2003 and was crowned Jazz Artist of the Year in 2005 by Radio 2.

The survey was carried out for new digital radio station theJazz.

Top 10

1 Miles Davis - So What

2 Dave Brubeck - Take Five

3 Louis Armstrong - West End Blues

4 John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

5 Miles Davis - All Blues

6 John Coltrane - My Favourite Things

7 Weather Report - Birdland

8 Jamie Cullum - Twentysomething

9 Duke Ellington - Take The 'A' Train

10 Miles Davis - Blue In Green

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