You know exactly where “3 Shades of Blue” is heading from the first page, even from the front cover. You foresee the point at which its three shades will blend and blur and, for an ...

Empty Ballroom Blues; Duke's Place; Echoes of Harlem; Disillusion Blues; Yearning; Welcome to New York; Black, Brown and Beautiful; Rockin' in Rhythm; Creole Love Call; It's Glory.

In “3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool,” James Kaplan offers a compelling biography of all three men’s lives before, during and following ...