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3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool jazz a groundbreaking dual portrait ofAuthor: James Kaplan The National Bestseller One of The Minneapolis Star Tribune 's Best Books of the Year A superb book[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date. Los Angeles Times From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of three towering artistsMiles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evansand how they came together to create the most iconic