Making of Kind of Blue

The Making of Kind of Blue Miles Davis and His Masterpiece【電子書籍】 Eric NisensonThe Blue Moment Miles Davis 039 s Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music【電子書籍】 Richard WilliamsKind of Blue Miles Davis and the Making of a Masterpiece【電子書籍】 Ashley Kahn
 

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  • <p>From the moment it was recorded more than 40 years ago, Miles Davis's Kind of Blue was hailed as a jazz classic. To this day it remains the bestselling jazz album of all time, embraced by fans of all musical genres. The album represented a true watershed moment in jazz history, and helped to usher in the first great jazz revolution since bebop.</p> <p><em>The Making of Kind of Blue</em> is an exhaustively researched examination of how this masterpiece was born. Recorded with pianist Bill Evans, tenor saxophonist John Coltrane, composer/theorist George Russell and Miles himself, the album represented a fortuitous conflation of some of the real giants of the jazz world, at a time when they were at the top of their musical game. The end result was a recording that would forever change the face of American music.</p> <p>Through extensive interviews and access to rare recordings Nisenson pieced together the whole story of this miraculous session, laying bare the genius o...
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  • <p>'It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.'<br /> Miles Davis's <strong>Kind of Blue</strong> 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 coolness ever since.<br /> Richard Williams has written a history of the album which for once does not rip it out of its wider cultural context. He evokes the essence of the music - identifying the qualities that make it so uniquely appealing - while making effortless connections to painting, literature, philosophy and poetry. This makes for an elegant, graceful and beautifully-wr...
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  • <p>In the early spring of 1959, six musicians went into the 30th Street Studio in New York. Nine hours later, they had recorded one of the finest albums of the twentieth century.</p> <p><em>Kind of Blue</em> traces Miles Davis's development into an artist capable of making such a masterpiece, and explores the careers and struggles of the musicians who shaped him and played alongside him. Using interviews and pictures, studio dialogue and outtakes, the great jazz historian Ashley Kahn follows Miles and his group into the studio, to show precisely how the greatest jazz record of all time was made, how it was introduced to the world, and how it changed music forever.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。
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