“And so when I wrote A Lighter Shade of Blue … I decided that it was going to be all the shades of the grief ... there’s a song about death, there’s a song about marriage, there’s ...

You know exactly where “3 Shades of Blue” is heading from the first page ... dying in 1980 at the age of 51. Here Kaplan quotes jazz historian and critic Gene Lees: “Bill Evans committed ...

James Kaplan's 3 Shades of Blue is an intimate biographic work that takes you through a fly-on-the-wall journey on the careers of three of the greatest jazz musicians of all time: Miles Davis, John ...