The Blue Moment

1 Introduction 1 2 Into The Blue 14 Welcome to the modern world 3 The Sound of Blue 25 Blue valentines. Blue kisses. Blue velvet. Way to blue 4 Blue Moods 39 Conversations behind a Chinese laundry 5 Blue Dawn 60 From the Third Stream to the nouvelle vague 6 Six Colours (Blue) 81 Adventures in modality: from Milestones to Porgy and Bess 7 Interlude: Outside in Blue 95 Camus, Moravia, Mastroianni and the man with the Strand cigarette 8 The Blue Moment 104 An Armenian Orthodox church with a three-second reverb 9 Blue Waves 127 John Coltrane and Bill Evans: quartet and trio 10 Blue Horizon 161 Enter minimalism: La Monte Young and Terry Riley 11 Dark Blue 186 The Velvet Underground: how art came to the discotheque 12 So Blue 202 What James Brown told Pee Wee Ellis 13 Blue Bells 220 Soft machines and curved air 14 Code Blue 236 The art school hop: Brian Eno and the bush of ghosts 15 Blue on Blue 258 Northern latitudes and the most beautiful sound next to silence 16 Coda: Permanent Blue 275 Inside the Dream House References 279 Acknowledgements 287 Index 289