MILES DAVIS RDR

MILES DAVIS RDR
Author: KIRCHNER BILL
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1997-10-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Interviews, essays, and other documents offer information about the life, work, and contributions of the innovative jazz trumpeter whose career stretched from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Miles Davis: New Research on Miles Davis & His Circle

Miles Davis: New Research on Miles Davis & His Circle
Author: Masaya Yamaguchi
Publisher: Masaya Music
Total Pages: 663
Release: 2019-06-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0999878425

Masaya Yamaguchi is Japanese-born musician and educator, who lives in the US. This book grew out of research Yamaguchi did on Miles' autobiography, which was written by Quincy Troupe from hours of transcribed interviews with Miles. Yamaguchi obtained 1200 pages of the transcripts and has meticulously and painstakingly researched and checked the contents. He finds various errors and anomalies, and corrects the information with strong evidence. The book is full of images of transcript pages (which include content not seen in the autobiography), letters and memos. There's plenty of stuff about Miles'1980s music, especially on the guitarists Miles used during this era (thelastmiles.com/library_milesdavis_4/).

Miles

Miles
Author: Marc Antomattei
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2011-03-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0984639101

You can't be a Miles Davis completist without owning this book; it is a collector's item in and of itself! Miles: The Companion Guide to the Autobiography is an annotated guide to Miles' own book previously released over twenty years ago in 1989. In his autobiography, Miles talks in great detail about all of his recording sessions with all his various labels. He usually mentions things in detail such as when they were done, who was playing with him at that session, whose arrangements the tunes were from and so forth. Use this annotated sequencing companion guide to help you find and listen to those particular tunes within your collection or to help you track down those missing tracks so you can compile your own soundtrack to his life. This guide will give you a perfectly good reason to reread the autobiography, and trust me; it is better the second time around with this.Core content includes:*A listing of 388 jazz tunes and albums as mentioned by Miles Davis himself in his autobiography; Use as a guide to help you find and listen to those particular tunes within your collection or to help you track down those missing tracks so you can compile your own soundtrack to his life.Supplemental features of this book include: *An eleven page summary of the autobiography*An exclusive never before seen article "Miles Davis vs. Wynton Marsalis"*A listing of all Miles Davis Video & Audio Interviews*A listing of all Miles Davis DVDs*A listing of all Miles Davis Concert CDs*A Miles Davis buyers guide for both completists with no spending budget and for conscience spending people. *An appraisal guide of all Miles Davis special edition CDs including: Special edition box sets, special anniversary editions, remastered editions, Japanese editions, rare & out-of-print CDs, 24k gold CDs, Blu-Spec CDs, SACDs, Hyrbrid SACDs, SHM-CDs, and HQCDs.*A listing of Miles Davis jazz standards and author's favorites.

The John Coltrane Reference

The John Coltrane Reference
Author: Lewis Porter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 834
Release: 2013-04-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135112576

The BBC's Jazz Book of the Year for 2008. Few jazz musicians have had the lasting influence or attracted as much scholarly study as John Coltrane. Yet, despite dozens of books, hundreds of articles, and his own recorded legacy, the "facts" about Coltrane's life and work have never been definitely established. Well-known Coltrane biographer and jazz educator Lewis Porter has assembled an international team of scholars to write The John Coltrane Reference, an indispensable guide to the life and music of John Coltrane. The John Coltrane Reference features a a day-by-day chronology, which extends from 1926-1967, detailing Coltrane's early years and every live performance given by Coltrane as either a sideman or leader, and a discography offering full session information from the first year of recordings, 1946, to the last, 1967. The appendices list every film and television appearance, as well as every recorded interview. Richly illustrated with over 250 album covers and photos from the collection of Yasuhiro Fujioka, The John Coltrane Reference will find a place in every major library supporting a jazz studies program, as well as John Coltrane enthusiasts.

Miles Davis

Miles Davis
Author: Bill Cole
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1994-03-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Bill Cole's study of the music of Miles Davis covers his career from his first meeting with Charlie Parker up to his experimentation with electric music in the early 1970s. Cole sheds new light not only on Miles Davis's technique, recordings, and philosophy, but on those of his fellow musicians as well: Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown, Bill Evans, Gerry Mulligan, and Charles Mingus, among others. Supplemented with thirteen musical transcriptions of his solos and a complete list of his recording sessions through 1972, Miles Davis: The Early Years illuminates much more than the life and work of one of jazz's most innovative musicians: It explores the very nature of African American music itself.

Miles on Miles

Miles on Miles
Author: Paul Maher
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2021-06-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1641606010

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.

A Supreme Love

A Supreme Love
Author: William Edgar
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2022-07-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1514000679

Theologian and jazz pianist William Edgar places jazz within the context of the African American experience and explores the work of musicians like Miles Davis and Ella Fitzgerald, arguing that jazz, which moves from deep lament to inextinguishable joy, deeply resonates with the hope that is ultimately found in the good news of Jesus Christ.

Investigation of the Tennessee Valley Authority

Investigation of the Tennessee Valley Authority
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee to Investigate Tennessee Valley Authority
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1870
Release: 1939
Genre: Corporations, Government
ISBN:

Album Cover Album

Album Cover Album
Author: Roger Dean
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2008-10-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0061626953

A stunningly designed review of the greatest album cover designs, spanning the classic period from the 1950s to the 1970s, Album Cover Album first hit the bestseller charts in 1977. This led to the release of six follow-up hits, inspired a host of imitations, and generated a long-playing sub-genre in art and design publishing. Album Cover Album is edited and compiled by two designers who were among the most innovative pioneers of the work that it celebrates. Storm Thorgerson's Hipgnosis earned world renown for the epic photo shoots and iconic designs that went so perfectly with the music of Pink Floyd. Meanwhile, Roger Dean's dreamscapes and unique typography became as much a part of the rock generation as the Yes albums they adorned. Album Cover Album features their selection of more than 600 sleeves in full color, and showcases the astonishing diversity and excellence of design that the medium produced in its first three decades. This new edition retains the lavish 12-inch format of the original and replays the ingeniously themed compositions of each page. The album is given a fresh spin by a new preface from Peter Gabriel and new forewords by Storm Thorgerson and John Wetton, plus a 21st-century typographic facelift. The result is a celebration of the enduring appeal of vinyl.