Author | : Frank Alkyer |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781423430766 |
Interviews and features from Downbeat Magazine
Author | : Frank Alkyer |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781423430766 |
Interviews and features from Downbeat Magazine
Author | : George Cole |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 2007-07-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780472032600 |
The story of the final recordings of one of the greatest jazz musicians of the twentieth century
Author | : KIRCHNER BILL |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Books (DC) |
Total Pages | : 296 |
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.
Author | : Quincy Troupe |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2000-03-08 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780520929067 |
Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique relationship. It is also an engrossing chronicle of the author's own development, both artistic and personal. As Davis's collaborator on Miles: The Autobiography,Troupe--one of the major poets to emerge from the 1960s--had exceptional access to the musician. This memoir goes beyond the life portrayed in the autobiography to describe in detail the processes of Davis's spectacular creativity and the joys and difficulties his passionate, contradictory temperament posed to the men's friendship. It shows how Miles Davis, both as a black man and an artist, influenced not only Quincy Troupe but whole generations. Troupe has written that Miles Davis was "irascible, contemptuous, brutally honest, ill-tempered when things didn't go his way, complex, fair-minded, humble, kind and a son-of-a-bitch." The author's love and appreciation for Davis make him a keen, though not uncritical, observer. He captures and conveys the power of the musician's presence, the mesmerizing force of his personality, and the restless energy that lay at the root of his creativity. He also shows Davis's lighter side: cooking, prowling the streets of Manhattan, painting, riding his horse at his Malibu home. Troupe discusses Davis's musical output, situating his albums in the context of the times--both political and musical--out of which they emerged. Miles and Me is an unparalleled look at the act of creation and the forces behind it, at how the innovations of one person can inspire both those he knows and loves and the world at large.
Author | : Victor Svorinich |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2015-02-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1626743576 |
Listen to This stands out as the first book exclusively dedicated to Davis's watershed 1969 album, Bitches Brew. Victor Svorinich traces its incarnations and inspirations for ten-plus years before its release. The album arrived as the jazz scene waned beneath the rise of rock-and-roll and as Davis (1926–1991) faced large changes in social conditions affecting the African American consciousness. This new climate served as a catalyst for an experiment that many considered a major departure. Davis's new music projected rock-and-roll sensibilities, the experimental essence of 1960s' counterculture, yet also harsh dissonances of African American reality. Many listeners embraced it, while others misunderstood and rejected the concoction. Listen to This is not just the story of Bitches Brew. It reveals much of the legend of Miles Davis—his attitude and will, his grace under pressure, his bands, his relationship to the masses, his business and personal etiquette, and his response to extraordinary social conditions seemingly aligned to bring him down. Svorinich revisits the mystery and skepticism surrounding the album and places it into both a historical and musical context using new interviews, original analysis, recently found recordings, unearthed session data sheets, memoranda, letters, musical transcriptions, scores, and a wealth of other material. Additionally, Listen to This encompasses a thorough examination of producer Teo Macero's archives and Bitches Brew's original session reels in order to provide the only complete day-to-day account of the sessions.
Author | : Richard Cook |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195322665 |
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Author | : Phil Freeman |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
RUNNING THE VOODOO DOWN
Author | : John Szwed |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2004-01-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0684859831 |
Based on interviews with family and friends, this account of the jazz great's life reveals the influence of Miles Davis' life on his work as well as the musician's persistent desire to re-invent himself.
Author | : Paul Tingen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780823083602 |
Presents an in-depth exploration of the musician's controversial electric period and the impact it had on the jazz community, as drawn from firsthand recollections about his artistic and personal life. Reprint.