by Richard Williams · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571245079
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«The Blue Moment» is Richard Williams's essay on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (320 pages, in English).
The book reconstructs the story of Kind of Blue, the album Miles Davis recorded in 1959, whose slow, meditative and luminous atmosphere marked an entire generation. Richard Williams explains how that record transformed modern music and connects it with painting, literature, philosophy and poetry within its cultural context.
Originally published in August 2009; the Faber & Faber paperback edition appeared in July 2010.
The book is aimed at fans of jazz and the cultural history of twentieth-century music.
