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They make a near perfect match, from their virtually simultaneous publication this fall to their tripping-over-each-other titles. In one corner, The Making of Kind of Blue: Miles Davis and His Masterpiece by Eric Nisenson (St. Martin's Press; 236 pages; $22.95); across the ring, Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece by Ashley Kahn (Da Capo; 223 pages...
...provide the context for that moment. From Kahn we learn how little even famous sidemen might make from a leader's gig: for the second of the two Kind of Blue sessions, at which Flamenco Sketches and All Blues were recorded, Coltrane, Adderley and Evans received $64.67 each. From Nisenson we learn what Nisenson has written in other books (he quotes himself so frequently that he begins to sound like a tape loop), and that he and Miles were bosom buddies. If you're interested in Nisenson, read Nisenson; if you're interested in how the record was made, read...
...Nisenson also pointed out that two of the discovered planets were within "the habitable zone," the distance from a star that corresponds to planets with temperatures roughly similar to those of Venus, Earth and Mars...
...became clear that there was another component of the system that could only be discovered by examining long-term trends in the data," Nisenson said...
...There's no reason not to think that these planets might have moons that might have life on them," Nisenson said...