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The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music

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The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music

A brilliant, wide-ranging book on how the seminal album revolutionized music and culture in the twentieth century.
â€œIt is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.â€ Miles Davisâ€™s Kind of Blue is the best-selling piece of music in jazz history and, for many listeners, among the most haunting works of the twentieth century. It is also, notoriously, the only jazz album many people own. Recorded in 1959 (in nine miraculous hours), there has been nothing like it since. Richard Williamsâ€™s â€œrichly informativeâ€ (The Guardian) history considers the album within its wider cultural context, showing how the record influenced such diverse artists as Steve Reich and the Velvet Underground.

In the tradition of Alex Ross and Greil Marcus, the â€œeffortlessly versatileâ€ Williams (The Times) â€œconnects these seemingly disparate phenomena with purpose, finesse and journalistic flairâ€ (Financial Times), making masterly connections to painting, literature, philosophy, and poetry while identifying the qualities that make the album so uniquely appealing and surprisingly universal.

Country	USA
Author	Richard Williams
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780393076639
Edition	1
ISBN	0393076636
Label	W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	320
PublicationDate	2010-04-12
Publisher	W. W. Norton & Company
Studio	W. W. Norton & Company
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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