Wednesday, March 11, 2026

the last book I ever read (3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool, excerpt ten)

from 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan:

Tired by the time the band came to the third son of the session, “Stella by Starlight,” Cannonball laid out—and then fell asleep in the studio as the five other players went through take after take of the number, stymied at first by a technical difficulty in the control booth and then by a frustrating inability to get the tune exactly right. By take 5, Miles’s patience was fraying: “Paul, what’s wrong with you?” he snapped at Chambers after a false start. Another brief take came to a halt with the intrusion of a loud, startling sound in the studio: Adderley’s snoring. “Hey, man, wake Cannonball up.” Miles said. Someone woke him up. “Don’t snore on my solo, bitch,” Miles told him, as loud laughter broke out.



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