Miles Davis was always moving forward, never content to rest on his lofty laurels. Thus, after fashioning some of the greatest acoustic jazz recordings of all time in the ’50s and ’60s, ...

Miles Davis' epic 1959 album, ... “We’ve taken and stolen from him shamelessly, not just musically, but in terms of his attitude of moving things forward. ...

The move from Miles’s quintet albums to “Live-Evil” (1971) was drastic; the reward was understanding that groove and details of space, placement and articulation were profound and masterful.

In this excerpt from the new book 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool (Penguin Press, March 5, 2024), author James Kaplan puts us in the room as ...

Take a lesson from Davis’ own example: Hear Kind of Blue, but move past Kind of Blue. You can always come back for a jam session, so to speak, with your old buddy. But don’t stop there.

Book Review. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans and the Lost Empire of Cool. By James Kaplan Penguin: 484 pages, $35 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may ...