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

About the book\nA brilliant, wide-ranging book on how the seminal album revolutionized music and culture in the twentieth century.\n\n\u201CIt is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.\u201D Miles Davis\u2019s 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 Williams\u2019s \u201Crichly informative\u201D (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.\n\nIn the tradition of Alex Ross and Greil Marcus, the \u201Ceffortlessly versatile\u201D Williams (The Times) \u201Cconnects these seemingly disparate phenomena with purpose, finesse.