Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
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A stunning new edition, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’s timeless Kind of Blue, with a new afterword by the author USA Today [Kind of Blue] begins with a scene worthy of Citizen Kane. Kahn describes his trip into the [Sony Music] vaults to listen to the complete master tapes. What could have been a dry, academic treatise...kicks off like a good mystery.... Kahn's oral (and aural history brings the 1950s jazz scene to life.
Foreword Jimmy Cobb 7Acknowledgments 9Introduction 12Birth of the Tone: Miles 1949-1955 22Interlude: Columbia Records 45The Quintet, The Sextet, And the Rise of Modal Jazz 54Interlude: 30th Street Studio 75First Session 88Interlude: Freddie Freeloader 104Second Session 122Selling Blue 146The Legacy of Slue 174Epilogue 199Afterword 201Bibliography 209Discography 212Source Notes 214Index 226
