{"product_id":"3-shades-of-blue-miles-davis-john-coltrane-bill-evans-and-the-lost-empire-of-cool","title":"3 Shades of Blue","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe National Bestseller - One of \u003ci\u003eThe Minneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of three towering artists--Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans--and how they came together to create the most iconic jazz album of all time, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eKind of Blue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1959, America's great indigenous art form, jazz, reached the height of its power and popularity. James Kaplan's magnificent \u003ci\u003e3 Shades of Blue\u003c\/i\u003e captures how that golden era came to be, and its pinnacle with the recording of \u003ci\u003eKind of Blue.\u003c\/i\u003e It's a book about music, and business, and race, and heroin, and the cities that gave jazz its home, and the Black geniuses behind its rise. It's an astonishing meditation on creativity and the strange environments where it can flourish most. It's a book about the great forebears and founders of a lost era, and the disrupters who would take the music down truly new paths. And it's about why the world of jazz most people know is a museum to this never-replicated period. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut above all, \u003ci\u003e3 Shades of Blue\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about three very different men--the greatness and varied fortunes of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans. The tapestry of their lives is, in Kaplan's hands, a national odyssey with no direction home. It is also a masterpiece, a book about jazz that is as big as America.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51669721022754,"sku":"9780525561026","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/8637\/3154\/files\/imageloader_65dd6da6-ed8c-4479-8a62-06342442081b.jpg?v=1779711164","url":"https:\/\/godmothers.com\/products\/3-shades-of-blue-miles-davis-john-coltrane-bill-evans-and-the-lost-empire-of-cool","provider":"Godmothers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}