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Miles On Miles: Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis - Paul Maher, Jr., Michael K. Dorr
Miles On Miles: Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis
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Miles on Miles collects the thirty most vital Miles Davis interviews. Essential reading for anyone who wants to know what Miles Davis thought about his music, life, and philosophy, Miles on Miles reveals the jazz icon as a complex and contradictory man, secretive at times but extraordinarily... show more
Miles on Miles collects the thirty most vital Miles Davis interviews. Essential reading for anyone who wants to know what Miles Davis thought about his music, life, and philosophy, Miles on Miles reveals the jazz icon as a complex and contradictory man, secretive at times but extraordinarily revealing at others. Miles was not only a musical genius, but an enigma, and nowhere else was he so compelling, exasperating, and entertaining as in his interviews, which vary from polite to outrageous, from straight-ahead to contrarian. Even his autobiography lacks the immediacy of the dialogues collected here. Many were conducted by leading journalists like Leonard Feather, Stephen Davis, Ben Sidran, Mike Zwerin, and Nat Hentoff. Others have never before seen print, are newly transcribed from radio and television shows, or appeared in long-forgotten magazines. Since Miles Davis’s 1991 death, his influence has continued to grow. But until now, no book has brought back to life his inimitable voice--contemplative, defiant, elegant, uncompromising, and humorous. Miles on Miles will long remain the definitive source for anyone wanting to really encounter the legend in print.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9781556527067 (1556527063)
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
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3.0 Miles on Miles: Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis
I enjoyed this, but about 3/4 of the way through I think I'm done. There was a handful of interviews where he was open and illustrative about his inspiration and creative process, and a lot a lot of interviews where he was annoyed at the interviewer, the record industry, and/or women ("bitches" here...
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