Bibliograph

The blue moment, Miles Davis's Kind of blue and the remaking of modern music, Richard Williams

Type

Label

The blue moment, Miles Davis's Kind of blue and the remaking of modern music, Richard Williams

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The blue moment

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Richard Williams

Sub title

Miles Davis's Kind of blue and the remaking of modern music

Summary

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 20th-century music. This book is an essential companion to this influential album, published on the 50th anniversary of its original release

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Into the blue : welcome to the modern world -- The sound of blue : blue valentines, blue kisses, blue velvet, way to blue -- Blue moods : conversations behind a Chinese laundry -- Blue dawn : from the Third Stream to the nouvelle vague -- Six colours (blue) : adventures in modality: from Milestones to Porgy and Bess -- Interlude: outside in blue : Camus, Moravia, Mastroianni and the man with the Strand cigarette -- The blue moment : an Armenian Orthodox church with a three-second reverb -- Blue waves : John Coltrane and Bill Evans: quartet and trio -- Blue horizon : Enter minimalism: La Monte Young and Terry Riley -- Dark blue : the Velvet Underground: how art came to the discotheque -- So blue : what James Brown told Pee Wee Ellis -- Blue bells : soft machines and curved air -- Code blue : The art school of hop: Brian Eno and the bush of ghosts -- Blue on blue : northern latitudes and the most beautiful sound next to silence -- Coda: permanent blue : inside the Dream House

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