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Mar 25, 2024 · True ‘Blue’: James Kaplan ’73 Documents a Key Collaboration in Jazz History. As jazz albums go, Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue represents a high-water mark. The record came at a time of profound musical innovation: bebop had given way to hard bop, a more soulful version of jazz, but Davis wanted to simplify the music and send it in a new ...
Feb 27, 2024 · James Kaplan's ‘3 Shades of Blue’ shows how Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans made the biggest jazz album ever, "Kind of Blue."
Mar 13, 2024 · Among the sextet of musicians who played on the album, three stand out as true jazz geniuses; Miles Davis, Bill Evans, and John Coltrane. Today on the show, James Kaplan, author of 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool, unpacks the stories behind these towering figures.
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Mar 10, 2024 · Frank Sinatra biographer James Kaplan has set his sights on three jazz giants — Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans — as their lives and their art lead up to the recording of “Kind of Blue,” Davis’ landmark 1959 album that featured Coltrane on tenor saxophone and Evans on piano.
Aug 17, 2009 · Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, which was released 50 years ago today, is a nearly unique thing in music or any other creative realm: a huge hit—the best-selling jazz album of all time— and...
Mar 11, 2024 · The results were some of the finest jazz albums ever recorded, including 1959’s seminal “Kind of Blue.”
Mar 6, 2024 · The best-selling and arguably the best-loved jazz album ever, Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue still has the power to awe. By James Kaplan. Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani.
