It's not unusual to have first takes used on jazz albums. In fact you can read about making of "Kind of Blue" (http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Making_of

It's not unusual to have first takes used on jazz albums. In fact you can read about making of "Kind of Blue" (http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Making_of_Kind_of_Blue.html?id=CNSmSI5q3OMC http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Making_of_Kind_of_Bl...). What you hear on that record is not only the first complete take of each tune, but also it was the first time the tunes were played at all.