THE BLUE MOMENT

Book ID/图书代码： 04560008B26787

English Summary/英文概要： ’It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.’ Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue is the best selling piece of music in the history of jazz, and for many listeners among the most haunting in all of twentieth-century music. It is also, notoriously, the only jazz album many people own. Recorded in 1959 (in nine miraculous hours), there has been nothing like it since. Its atmosphere – slow, dark, meditative, luminous – became all-pervasive for a generation, and has remained the epitome of melancholy coolness ever since.

Richard Williams has written a history of the album which for once does not rip it out of its wider cultural context. He evokes the essence of the music – identifying the qualities that make it so uniquely appealing – while making effortless connections to painting, literature, philosophy and poetry. This makes for an elegant, graceful and beautifully-written narrative.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 邁爾斯‧戴維斯Miles Davis想必是許多爵士樂愛好者心目中經典中的經典。他不僅將爵士樂帶到新的里程碑，也讓爵士音樂從此在樂壇佔有不可或缺的地位，他在 1959年所發行的Kind of Blue「泛藍調調」專輯，這張全球銷售超過數百萬張影響力深遠的大碟，讓很多人聽了以後，便立志要成為爵士樂手。作者Richard Williams將從此專輯及許多頂尖樂手串起整個爵士的發展史，本書不僅是爵士樂迷絕佳的收藏，對於想瞭解爵士樂的讀者來說更是最佳的入門推薦書。
本書將配合Kind of Blue「泛藍調調」發行五十週年紀念大碟同時出版！(VL)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Richard Williams is the Guardian’s chief sports writer. His previous jobs include chief sports writer of the Independent, assistant editor of the Times, editor of Time Out and Melody Maker and head of artists and repertoire at Island Records.

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