{"product_id":"blue-moment","title":"Blue Moment","description":"\u003cp\u003e''It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiles Davis''s\u003cb\u003e Kind of Blue\u003c\/b\u003e is the best selling piece of music in the history of jazz, and for many listeners among the most haunting in all of twentieth-century music. It is also, notoriously, the only jazz album many people own. Recorded in 1959 (in nine miraculous hours), there has been nothing like it since. Its atmosphere - slow, dark, meditative, luminous - became all-pervasive for a generation, and has remained the epitome of melancholy coolness ever since.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Williams has written a history of the album which for once does not rip it out of its wider cultural context. He evokes the essence of the music - identifying the qualities that make it so uniquely appealing - while making effortless connections to painting, literature, philosophy and poetry. This makes for an elegant, graceful and beautifully-written narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57318881886590,"sku":"NW9780571245079","price":11.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571245079.jpg?v=1778248061","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/blue-moment","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}