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The Blue Moment: Miles Davis´s Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music
Richard Williams
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Description for The Blue Moment: Miles Davis´s Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music
Paperback. Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" is the best selling piece of music in the history of jazz, and for many listeners among the most haunting in all of twentieth-century music. It is also, notoriously, the only jazz album many people own. This title presents the history of the album. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: AVGJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262.
'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 the history of jazz, and for many listeners among the most haunting in all of twentieth-century music. 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. Its atmosphere - slow, dark, meditative, luminous - became all-pervasive for a generation, and has remained the epitome of melancholy ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
261g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571245079
SKU
V9780571245079
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-76
About Richard Williams
Richard Williams is the Guardian's chief sports writer. His previous jobs include chief sports writer of the Independent, assistant editor of the Times, editor of Time Out and Melody Maker and head of artists and repertoire at Island Records.
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