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...winner? Well, it's playing in the background right now, the smoky, seductive and timeless music Davis and his legendary sidemen--chiefly John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley and Bill Evans--committed to tape in a studio on the east side of Manhattan 41 years ago. Kind of Blue is more than simply one of the best-selling jazz albums ever; it is also nothing less than the sound track to the lives of several generations of loners and romantics. There are people quoted in these books who remember the first time they heard the two-note signature riff of its first...
...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 Kahn; and if you're interested in what makes a piece of quiet, understated music survive four decades of rock, rap and ruckus, listen...
...picture and what the world needs" and turns his ideas over to his 150-person, highly trained work force, which designs and creates electronic and mechanical devices, largely for government agencies and industry. Some of his initial creative work is done at home, with "crude tools and some duct tape and vises and hacksaws" bought at the local hardware store. "I build things myself," he says, "and if they work, then they get into the company. If they don't work, then that's my tough luck...
Watching, or rather listening to, the tape-recorded arguments between the Bush and Gore lawyers before the Supreme Court this morning - an unprecedented airing of same-day audio - you had to wonder whether "The West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin didn't pick the wrong branch of government to write about. We already see plenty of the world of White House staffers, after all, every time an insider quits and writes an overremunerated memoir. But the Court, now there's an intriguing world. The sex-scandal-haunted black conservative! The mysterious, John Cage-like nebbish who infuriates his Republican sponsors...
...nerdishly intense proceedings, riveting in spite of the lack of video, were no less spirited or probing for the presence of microphones. The dearth of pictures did, however, leave the cable news networks that carried the hearing stretching to make the tapes visually dramatic: CNN busied up its screen with a collage including the presidential seal, a picture of tape machine reels, head shots of attorneys and Justices, closed captioning and a live shot of the SCOTUS building; MSNBC added goofy computer-generated animation that zoomed through a digital court building as they tape played, reminding us why the Sony...