3 Shades of Blue
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Author_James Kaplan
Bill Evans
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jazz
Jim Crow era
John Coltrane
Kind of Blue
Miles Davis
music
music history
music icons
music legends
Prince of Darkness
racism
segregation
US history
Product details
- ISBN 9781837260379
- Weight: 337g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 13 Mar 2025
- Publisher: Canongate Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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1959 saw Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the other members of Miles's sextet come together to record the bestselling jazz album of all time: Kind of Blue.
3 Shades of Blue follows the paths of Miles, Coltrane and Evans to the mountaintop of 1959 and their roads on from there. It's a book about music and business, race and heroin, and an astonishing meditation on creativity and the strange hothouses that can produce its full flowering. But above all this is the story of three very different men - their struggles, their choices, their inspiration. The tapestry of their lives is, in James Kaplan's hands, an American Odyssey.
James Kaplan's essays, stories, reviews and profiles have appeared in numerous magazines, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Esquire and New York. His novels include Pearl's Progress and Two Guys from Verona, a New York Times Notable Book for 1998. His nonfiction works include The Airport, You Cannot Be Serious (co-authored with John McEnroe), Dean & Me: A Love Story (with Jerry Lewis), Frank: The Voice, and Sinatra: The Chairman. He lives in Westchester, New York.
