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. “It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.” Miles Davis’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 mi...