3 Shades of Blue

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1959 saw Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the other members of Miles's sextet come together to record the bestselling jazz album of all time: Kind of Blue.

3 Shades of Blue follows the paths of Miles, Coltrane and Evans to the mountaintop of 1959 and their roads on from there. It's a book about music and business, race and heroin, and an astonishing meditation on creativity and the strange hothouses that can produce its full flowering. But above all this is the story of three very different men - their struggles, their choices, their inspiration. The tapestry of their lives is, in James Kaplan's hands, an American Odyssey.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781837260379
Published: March 2025

Number of pages: 496
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 28 mm

Publisher: Canongate Books