3 Shades of Blue - Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

The national bestseller! “A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date.” -- 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 iconic jazz album of all time, The myth of the ’60s depends on the 1950s being the “before times” of conformity, segregation, straightness-- But above all, <3 Shades of Blue< 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....

Product details

• Authors: James Kaplan, Kaplan James
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.03.2025
• EAN: 9780525561026
• ISBN: 978-0-525-56102-6
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Jazz, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, Biography: arts & entertainment, Popular Music, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment