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

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

Davis’s Blue Note recording session of March 6, 1954, was his first record date for almost ten months and his first time working in the Hackensack, New Jersey, home studio of the soon to be legendary optometrist turned recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder. John Lewis had been the pianist on the May 1953 quartet recording; now that Horace Silver was on the piano bench (Percy Heath was back on bass; Art Blakey replaced Max Roach), Miles went in a different direction altogether.