{"product_id":"3-shades-of-blue-miles-davis-john-coltrane-bill-evans-and-the-lost-empire-of-cool-paperback","title":"3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Kaplan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe National Bestseller - One of \u003ci\u003eThe Minneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of three towering artists--Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans--and how they came together to create the most iconic jazz album of all time, \u003ci\u003eKind of Blue\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1959, America's great indigenous art form, jazz, reached the height of its power and popularity. James Kaplan's magnificent\u003ci\u003e 3 Shades of Blue\u003c\/i\u003e captures how that golden era came to be, and its pinnacle with the recording of \u003ci\u003eKind of Blue\u003c\/i\u003e. It's 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. It's an astonishing meditation on creativity and the strange environments where it can flourish most. It's a book about the great forebears and founders of a lost era, and the disrupters who would take the music down truly new paths. And it's about why the world of jazz most people know is a museum to this never-replicated period. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But above all, \u003ci\u003e3 Shades of Blue\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about three very different men--the greatness and varied fortunes of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans. The tapestry of their lives is, in Kaplan's hands, a national odyssey with no direction home. It is also a masterpiece, a book about jazz that is as big as America.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Kaplan\u003c\/b\u003e's essays, stories, reviews, and profiles have appeared in numerous magazines, including \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Vanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Esquire\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e. His novels include \u003ci\u003ePearl's Progress\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTwo Guys from Verona\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book for 1998. His nonfiction works include \u003ci\u003eThe Airport\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e You Cannot Be Serious \u003c\/i\u003e(coauthored with John McEnroe), \u003ci\u003eDean \u0026amp; Me: A Love Story \u003c\/i\u003e(with Jerry Lewis), \u003ci\u003eFrank: The Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSinatra: The Chairman\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow. He lives in Westchester, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 04, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987470221613,"sku":"9780525561026","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/WV5ypy3lC_9780525561026.webp?v=1776178899","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/3-shades-of-blue-miles-davis-john-coltrane-bill-evans-and-the-lost-empire-of-cool-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}