3 Shades of Blue : Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans & The Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan

3 Shades of Blue : Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans & The Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan1959 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

events and politics in places such as Havana

completes the picture

fun-filled illustrations by Robbie Cathro and 80 incredible entries

and the vastness of our universe unspools the logic of science's established laws

What an amazing story

and what we can do about it

also one of the century's master storytellers

the novelist

But then the OTIS file turns up

From daffodils to Easter eggs

whilst keeping a close eye out for tell-tale 'genius hair'

Devastating and beautifully written