 That combined with his use of pedals gave him a sound considered by critics to be innovative.Though Evans had quit the Miles Davis band a month before the album was recorded, Davis was enamored of Evans' piano sound as it was developing through 1958, and decided to use him as the pianist for four of the five tracks on the 1959 recording Kind of Blue.In a 1967 interview with Cadence Magazine, Evans revealed he named the album after consuming a full bottle of Old Crow whiskey.