Such sentiments come as no surprise to trumpet dynamo and San Diego Symphony jazz curator Gilbert Castellanos, who on Aug. 17 will lead “Miles Davis: Kind of Blue — In Concert” at the Rady ...

In the liner notes, Ashley Kahn—who wrote “Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece”—cites a 1979 interview ...

You know exactly where “3 Shades of Blue” is heading from the first ... Kaplan has set his sights on three jazz giants — Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans — as their lives and ...

It didn’t take long after its release on August 17, 1959, for Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue to ascend to a throne it has yet to vacate in all of the decades that have followed. With its scepter ...

In this excerpt from the new book 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool (Penguin Press, March 5, 2024), author James Kaplan puts us in the room as ...

Being stuck at “Kind of Blue” isn’t awful. You could spend your days listening to it and never think you’ve heard it too much. But you’re going to want to be like Miles Davis — and ...

Miles Davis’ photographed at CBS 30th Street Studio in 1959. (Vernon Smith / file photo) “I’m not a hardcore jazz fan, but I love ‘Kind of Blue’,” said Melissa Etheridge.