3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool adult PLUS: A book featuring essays

PLUS: A book featuring essays by critics Michael Chaiken

Authors: Brad Tolinski and Alan di Perna

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3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool adult PLUS: A book featuring essaysIn 1959, Americas great indigenous art form, jazz, reached the height of its power and popularity. James Kaplans magnificent 3 Shades of Blue captures how that golden era came to be, and its pinnacle with the recording of Kind of Blue. Its a book about music, and business, and race, and heroin, and the cities that gave jazz its home, and the Black geniuses behind its rise. Its an astonishing meditation on creativity and the strange environments where