The Making of Kind of Blue - Miles Davis and his Masterpiece

Softcover
236 pgs.
St. Martin's Press, Publ.

This is an exhaustively researched examination of how this masterpiece was born. Recorded with pianist Bill Evans; tenor saxophonist John Coltrane; composer/theorist George Russell; and Miles himself, the album represented a fortuitous conflation of some of the real giants of the jazz world, at a time when they were at the top of their musical game. The end result was a recording that would forever change the face of American music. Through extensive interviews and access to rare recordings, Eric Nisenson pieced together the whole story of this miraculous session.