James Kaplan's triple biography weaves together '3 Shades of Blue' in the backstories of Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans at the height of jazz's cultural sway.
You know exactly where “3 Shades of Blue” is heading from the first page, even from the front cover. You foresee the point at which its three shades will blend and blur and, for an incandescent moment, become one. But the anticipation and excitement still never abate.
Miles teamed up with composer-arranger Gil Evans on the groundbreaking nonet sessions that became “The Birth of the Cool,” blazed a trail through hard bop with his first great ’50s quintet, pioneered modal jazz with “Kind of Blue,” started a completely new quintet in the ’60s and just kept innovating through fusion and beyond. As Kaplan writes of the young Miles, “He was a prince and a genius; he knew it.” He also could be ruthless as he cycled through collaborators and styles.
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