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Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

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An edition of 3 Shades of Blue (2024)

3 Shades of Blue

Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

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A biographical, sociological, and anthropological study of jazz culture centered around Kind of Blue by the Miles Davis sextet.

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Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Pages
484

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Subjects

creativity, cool jazz, drug addiction, jazz, Music / Business Aspects

People

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker

Places

New York City, Paris (France)

Times

1940s-1990s

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Cover of: 3 Shades of Blue
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the Lost Empire of Cool
2024, Canongate Books
in English
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Cover of: 3 Shades of Blue
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the Lost Empire of Cool
2024, Canongate Books
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: 3 Shades of Blue
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
2024, Penguin Publishing Group
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First Sentence

"Jazz??"

Table of Contents

Contents
Prologue
Page 7
Prelude
Page 11
1. The blue trumpet
Page 15
2. Dentist’s son
Page 31
3. It must be heard with the brain and felt with the soul
Page 43
4. Serious
Page 73
5. Move
Page 89
6. Walking the Bar
Page 109
7. Junkie time
Page 121
8. Take off
Page 145
9. Left-handed pianist
Page 169
10. Now’s the time
Page 179
11. Why he picked me, I don’t know
Page 201
12. I began to accept the position in which I had been placed
Page 223
13. Fucking up the blues
Page 253
14. Outside of time
Page 273
15. Annus mirabilis
Page 295
16. After
Page 317
Acknowledgments
Page 431
Notes
Page 435
Bibliography
Page 463
Captions and Credits
Page 467
Index
Page 471

Edition Notes

Other Titles
Three Shades of Blue
Copyright Date
2024

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
781.65092/2[B]—dc23/eng/20230717
Library of Congress
ML395.K37 2024

The Physical Object

Format
hardcover
Pagination
484p
Number of pages
484
Weight
816 grams

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL50725116M
ISBN 13
9780525561002

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