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Miles Davis - The Definitive Biography (Paperback, Revised edition)
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Miles Davis - The Definitive Biography (Paperback, Revised edition)
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List price R597
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Discovery Miles 4 950
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The acclaimed classic biography, fully revised, becomes the
definitive. The revised edition of Ian Carr's classic biography of
Miles Davis throws new light on his life and career from the early
days in New York, with Charlie Parker, to his Birth of the Cool
band, through his drug addiction in the early 1950s, and the years
of extraordinary achievements, 1954-1960, during which he created a
whole series of masterpieces on record, and drew to his band such
unequalled talents as John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly and
Cannonball Adderly. Carr also gives a detailed description of
Miles's dark reclusive period, 1975-1980, and his descent towards
disintegration. He also tells how the events of one single day
forced Davis to turn back to life and return slowly to music. The
incessant activity of his last ten years - the music-making, his
painting and art exhibitions, his extraordinary trumpet playing,
his marriage to and divorce from Cicely Tyson - is recounted with
fascinating insight. Miles Davis, whose work has been called 'one
of the greatest musical legacies of the twentieth century',
remained controversial until the end, and this definitive biography
examines the controversy from all sides. With access to the inner
circle of Davis's friends and associates, Ian Carr includes new
interviews with such jazz greats as Max Roach, George Russell,
George Avakian, Ron Carter, John Carisi, John Scofield, Bill Evans
and Jack and Lydia DeJohnette, and revisits those who contributed
to the first edition, including Keith Jarrett, Dave Holland, Joe
Zawinul and Paul Buckmaster. This new, revised edition is an
essential source for those who want to understand Miles, his music
and the 'jazz life'.
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