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Miles

(Picador Books)

By Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe

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| Paperback | 9780330313827

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For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles is one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. The subject of several biographies, now Miles speaks out himself about his extraordinary life.<Continue

For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles is one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. The subject of several biographies, now Miles speaks out himself about his extraordinary life.

Miles: The Autobiography, like Miles himself, holds nothing back. For the first time Miles talks about his five-year silence. He speaks frankly and openly about his drug problem and how he overcame it. He condemns the racism he has encountered in the music business and in American society generally. And he discusses the women in his life. But above all, Miles talks about music and musicians, including the legends he has played with over the years: Bird, Dizzy, Monk, Trane, Mingus, and many others.

The man who has given us some of the most exciting music of the past few decades has now given us a compelling and fascinating autobiography, featuring a concise discography and thirty-two pages of photographs.

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  • If you can get through Miles writing, if you don't mind his urge to repeat how white people and the police are always wrong and he never fails and if you skip the last chapter, you'll find this an amazing document to understand Jazz history. Don't get me wrong, I love Miles, his art keeps inspiring ... (continue)

    If you can get through Miles writing, if you don't mind his urge to repeat how white people and the police are always wrong and he never fails and if you skip the last chapter, you'll find this an amazing document to understand Jazz history. Don't get me wrong, I love Miles, his art keeps inspiring me and I often find myself thinking like he did. All jazz fans should read this book once. And then stick to his music for the rest of their lives.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 432 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 0330313827
  • ISBN-13: 9780330313827
  • Publisher: Picador
  • Pub date: Dec 07, 1990
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: eBook
  • In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani
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