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100 1  Kaplan, James,|d1951-|eauthor. 
245 10 3 shades of blue :|bMiles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans,
       and the lost empire of cool /|cJames Kaplan. 
246 3  Three shades of blue 
264  1 New York :|bPenguin Press,|c2024. 
300    484 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-466) and 
       index. 
520    "From the author of the definitive biography of Frank 
       Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of 
       American culture in 1959, told through the journey of 
       three towering artists-Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and 
       Bill Evans-who came together to create the most famous and
       bestselling jazz album of all time, Kind of Blue The myth 
       of the 60s depends on the 1950s being the before times of 
       conformity, segregation, straightness-The Lonely Crowd and
       The Organization Man. This all carries some truth, but it 
       does nothing to explain how, in 1959, the great indigenous
       art form, jazz, reached the height of its power and 
       popularity, led there by a number of Black geniuses so 
       iconic they go by one name-Monk, Mingus, Rollins, Coltrane,
       and above all, Miles. 1959 saw Miles, Coltrane, Bill Evans,
       and the other members of Miles's sextet come together to 
       record what is widely considered the greatest jazz album 
       of all time, and certainly the best-selling: Kind of Blue.
       3 Shades of Blue is James Kaplan's magnificent account of 
       the paths of the three giants Miles, Coltrane and Evans to
       the mountaintop of 1959 and their path on from there. It's
       a book about music, and business, and race, and heroin, 
       and the towns that gave jazz its home, from New York and 
       LA to Philadelphia, Chicago and Kansas City. It's an 
       astonishing meditation on creativity and the strange 
       hothouses that can produce its full flowering. It's a book
       about the great forebears of this golden age, particularly
       Charlie Parker, and the people, like Ornette Coleman, who 
       would take the music down strange new paths. And it's 
       about why this period has never been replicated, why the 
       world of jazz most people visit is a museum to it. But 
       above all this is a book about three very different men-
       their struggles, their choices, their tragedies, their 
       greatness. Bill Evans had a gruesome downward spiral, John
       Coltrane took the mystic's path into a space far away from
       mainstream concerns. Miles had three or four sea changes 
       in him before the end. The tapestry of their lives is, in 
       Kaplan's hands, an American Odyssey, with no direction 
       home. It is also a masterpiece, a book about jazz that is 
       as big as America"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Davis, Miles. 
600 10 Coltrane, John,|d1926-1967. 
600 10 Evans, Bill,|d1929-1980. 
650  0 Jazz musicians|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Jazz|xHistory and criticism.