Three shades of jazz swirled together in 1959 to make ‘Kind of Blue’
Frank Sinatra biographer James Kaplan has set his sights on three jazz giants
— Miles #Davis, John #Coltrane and Bill #Evans
— as their lives and their art lead up to the recording of 🔹Kind of Blue🔹 Davis’ landmark 1959 album that featured Coltrane on tenor saxophone and Evans on piano.
The album marked a commercial and creative peak in jazz, the summit of what Kaplan, in the book’s subtitle, calls 🔹The Lost Empire of Cool.🔹
Along the way we meet a supporting roster comprising some of 20th century music’s greatest minds and talents.
There’s Charlie #Parker, the sax virtuoso who, along with trumpeter Dizzy #Gillespie, all but created bebop, and who left many followers scrambling to emulate his every move — including, tragically, his insatiable heroin addiction.
There’s Thelonious #Monk, the bearlike composer and pianist who thought in rhythms that others couldn’t fathom.
There’s Ornette #Coleman, the Texas-born saxophonist whose experiments went further out than even Coltrane (for a time, anyway) and left many listeners and peers baffled and even angry.
Accused Jan. 6 rioter charged with firing gun during U.S. Capitol attack: report
John Emanuel #Banuelos was the subject of the NBC News investigation that began two years ago when photos and video surfaced of a
👉 man with a gun tucked in waistband during the riots, according to reporter Ryan Reilly.
"Last month, Jan. 6 rioter #Derrick#Evans, 🔸who is now running in a Republican House primary in West Virginia, 🔸published previously unseen video that appeared to show that #Banuelos actually ♦️fired his weapon twice outside the Capitol that day♦️," the report notes.
"Online 'sedition hunters' who have aided the FBI in hundreds of arrests of Capitol rioters
— and who first sent Banuelos' name to the FBI in February 2021
— quickly surfaced additional footage that confirmed that Banuelos was the man who appeared to have fired the weapon https://www.rawstory.com/jan-6-riot-arrest/