Miles davis best biography
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A Miles Davis Library
A new series in which I look at the books that include references to Miles’s 1980s music. I thought I’d start with five excellent books. More titles will be included in future updates. You can also see Part 2 of my Miles book reviews, Part 3 of my Miles Book Reviews and Part 4 of my Miles Book Reviews, as well as a review of No Picture! by Shigeru Uchiyama.
Vincent Bessieres and Franck Bergerot: We Want Miles – Miles Davis Vs. Jazz (2010)
This book is companion to a terrific Miles Davis exhibition held in Paris in 2009 and Montreal, in 2010. This book differs from the Paris version in being a hardback with English text. There are essays covering all of Miles’s musical periods, from his early days in St Louis to his final years in 1980-1991 (the last chapter is called “Star People: Global Icon”). The text is very informative (there are also essays from guest contributors including, saxophonist Dave Liebman), but what really takes
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Miles Davis
American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926–1991)
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a roughly five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz.[1]
Born into an upper-middle-class[2] family in Alton, Illinois, and raised in East St. Louis, Davis started on the trumpet in his early teens. He left to study at Juilliard in New York City, before dropping out and making his professional debut as a member of saxophonist Charlie Parker's bebop quintet from 1944 to 1948. Shortly after, he recorded the Birth of the Cool sessions for Capitol Records, which were instrumental to the development of cool jazz. In the early 1950s, while addicted to heroin, D
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