Full name: Kind Of Blue: The Making Of The Miles Davis Masterpiece

Author: Ashley Kahn Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Music, Non Fiction, History, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780306815584

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. Similar books: Miles Beyond by Paul Tingen Improvising Jazz by Jerry Coker A Love Supreme by Ashley Kahn Visions of Jazz: The First Century by Gary Giddins Early Jazz by Gunther Schuller The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia Jazz by Geoffrey C. Ward As Serious As Your Life by Valerie Wilmer Coltrane by Ben Ratliff So What by John Szwed The Birth of Bebop by Scott DeVeaux The Jazz Theory Book by Mark Levine Miles by Miles Davis West Coast Jazz by Ted Gioia Satchmo by Gary Giddins The Wrecking Crew by Kent Hartman Comfortably Numb by Mark Blake The Beatles by Bob Spitz Everybody Loves Our Town by Mark Yarm Shostakovich by Elizabeth Wilson