3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool adult when the artist was just

when the artist was just establishing himself as a songwriter and performer in the vibrant folk music scene of New York’s Greenwich Village

PLUS: A book featuring essays by critics Michael Chaiken

Recorded at Greene Street Recording

Author: Henry Miller

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3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool adult when the artist was justIn 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