Yes, I am reading James Kaplan's 3 Shades of Blue which tells the biographical story of the main players on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue. It is almost shocking, e

Yes, I am reading James Kaplan's 3 Shades of Blue which tells the biographical story of the main players on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue. It is almost shocking, even though I knew, how impoverished these musicians were even though they were widely acknowledged to be at the top of the art form. Miles did ok financially but most of his peers did not. And yet people still listen to Kind of Blue 70 years later (and hardly anyone listens to modern jazz).