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A review by mjanssen
Kind Of Blue: The Making Of The Miles Davis Masterpiece by Ashley Kahn
4.0
Solid and informative read about the creation of a classic jazz album. Lots of wonderful details to eat up if you are a fan of jazz. I can't really find a flaw with this book, other than that there is a slightly disorienting approach to inserting some mini-chapters about various aspects of the album's production into the flow of a larger narrative. I found myself having to read a ways, flip back to read one of these inserts, and then page forward again. It was disruptive to the otherwise engaging flow of the creation story.
Reading this is food food for thought about why this album is such a bestselling classic, whereas overall the public is disengaged with jazz. (Sales of jazz albums are the lowest they've been in decades.) Maybe it's just the album's simple beauty, the invitation to bask in melodic expressions that are not intimidatingly showy or layered. It's like singing.
Reading this is food food for thought about why this album is such a bestselling classic, whereas overall the public is disengaged with jazz. (Sales of jazz albums are the lowest they've been in decades.) Maybe it's just the album's simple beauty, the invitation to bask in melodic expressions that are not intimidatingly showy or layered. It's like singing.