Miles: The Autobiography
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...
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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."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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780671725822 (0671725823)
ASIN: 671725823
Publish date: September 15th 1990
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
African American,
Biography Memoir,
Music,
Jazz,
Music Biography
Ridiculously entertaining.
Miles is amazingly good and badI just finished Miles Davis’s autobiography, Miles: The Autobiography. In all that he was, Miles was amazing. An amazing musical mind, amazing in his drug addictions, amazingly selfish, amazingly genius, amazingly stylish, amazingly angry, and amazingly racist, are all...