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Miles

By Miles Davis

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| Paperback | 9780671725822

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Book Description

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

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The Blue Moment by Richard Williams

Eight years ago, an American journalist called Ashley Kahn wrote Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece (still in print from Granta). It tells you all you could wish to know about the recording sessions held in 1959 at a deconsecrate ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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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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