"Kind of Blue": The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece - Tapa blanda

U.S. News & World Report, 1/5/09 "a brisk read, full of rarely seen photos." Malcolm Jones, Newsweek, 2/9/09 "Absorbing." Counterpunch.org, 8/14/09 "excellent" The Believer, August 2013 "I read it with admiration, pleasure, and, occasionally, more concentration than I need to use on most music books...Kahn writes with discipline and a great deal of care. And--yes--he provides an authoritative and accessible guide...His book is riveting." Virginia Quarterly Review, 10/18/13 "There is no argument about the celestial status of Miles Davis's 1959 epic recording Kind of Blue and Ashley Kahn's Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles David Masterpiece, an informative brief for its greatness." "U.S. News & World Report", 1/5/09 "a brisk read, full of rarely seen photos." Malcolm Jones, "Newsweek", 2/9/09 "Absorbing." Counterpunch.org, 8/14/09 "excellent" "The Believer", August 2013 "I read it with admiration, pleasure, and, occasionally, more concentration than I need to use on most music books...Kahn writes with discipline and a great deal of care. And--yes--he provides an authoritative and accessible guide...His book is riveting." "Virginia Quarterly Review", 10/18/13 "There is no argument about the celestial status of Miles Davis's 1959 epic recording "Kind of Blue and Ashley Kahn's Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles David Masterpiece", an informative brief for its greatness." "U.S. News & World Report," 1/5/09 "a brisk read, full of rarely seen photos." Malcolm Jones, "Newsweek," 2/9/09 "Absorbing." "U.S. News & World Report," 1/5/09 "a brisk read, full of rarely seen photos."

This critically and commercially acclaimed tribute to the most popular jazz album of all time is now available in paperback. With transcriptions of the unedited session tapes; in-depth interviews with musicians; freshly discovered Columbia Records files; never-before-seen photographs; and a foreword by the last surviving member of the band, drummer Jimmy Cobb, Kind of Blue is a vital piece of music history--and will be essential for fans and scholars for years to come.