Miles davis biography best

  • Ian Carr's book is the perfect counterpoint and corrective to Miles Davis's own brilliant but vitriolic autobiography, providing a balanced portrait of one of the undisputed cultural icons of the 20th century.
  • Ian Carr wrote an excellent biography on Miles, and it is insanely detailed.
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    Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography

    March 28, 2022
    Ian Carr’s biography of Miles is of extreme interest to anyone that wishes to explore all the various revolutions that Miles instigated in modern jazz: from his first breakthrough with Bird on Now’s the Time, to the cool jazz debut in The Birth of the Cool, to the epic Kind of Blue, the transformational In a Silent Way, the exhilarating Bitches Brew all the way to his music in the 80s…it is all there. I knew only sketches of his story and found the style highly readable and the level of documentation very impressive. I learned an incredible amount and due to this, the music in my collection of Miles has taken on a whole new dimension. For example, I had never paid any attention to the Live Evil album, but thanks to the biography, I discovered the addictive What I Say which I listen to nearly daily now. How Miles consistently discovered the most incredible talent and developed them until they left and created their own groups: Tran

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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: The Definitive Biography

    Ian Carr's book is the perfect counterpoint and corrective to Miles Davis's own brilliant but vitriolic autobiography, providing a balanced portrait of one of the undisputed cultural icons of the 20th century. Carr has talked with the people who knew the man and his music best; and for this edition, updated since Davis's death, he has conducted new interviews with a number of jazz greats, including Ron Carter, högsta Roach, and John Scofield.

    From the early New York apprenticeship with Charlie parkerar, through Davis's drug addiction of the early 1950s, to the years (1954-1960) during which he signed with Columbia and recorded masterpieces with John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, and Cannonball Adderly, Carr sheds new light on Davis's life and career. His reclusive period (1975-1980) is explored with firsthand accounts of his nedstigning back into addiction as is his dramatic return to life and music.