Book cover of 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

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The national bestseller!

“A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date.” —Los Angeles Times

From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American…

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1 author picked 3 Shades of Blue as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

What’s unique about Kaplan’s take is how he organized his book around the careers of Davis, Trane, & Evans—their paths before their convergence and afterwards. There’s also a very interesting subtheme about heroin and jazz culture. This is one I’ll reread for sure.

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