Miles and Me

Miles and Me
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.

Miles Beyond

Miles Beyond
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.

The Last Miles

The Last Miles
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

Miles Aldridge

Miles Aldridge
Author: Miles Aldridge
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2013
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0847840360

The first monograph from the brilliant fashion photographer Miles Aldridge. With a cinematic approach to fashion photography, Miles Aldridge creates singular scenes with psychologically complex characters in surreal and fantastic settings. His brilliant, candy-colored images engage viewers with an appealing mix of overt sexuality and sweetness. No detail is left uncovered in his eye-popping, erotically charged fashion photographs, which transform slightly sordid scenarios into acid-hued glamour. Each photograph is a complex world unto itself, and these lush images invite viewers to linger, for there is always something else to see, some deeper layer of meaning to uncover. Including hand-drawn storyboards that Aldridge uses to fix the idea of a shoot in his mind, as well as previously unpublished material, this monograph is filled with intimate insight into the photographer’s point of view and process. With deliciously naughty scenes and lushly evocative photography, this book lures readers into Aldridge’s irresistible world.

I Love You for Miles and Miles

I Love You for Miles and Miles
Author: Alison Goldberg
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2017-12-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0374304432

Describes the depth, height, and steadiness of one's love for another by comparing it with the deepest drill, tallest crane, and steadiest tugboat.

Maudie and Me and the Dirty Book

Maudie and Me and the Dirty Book
Author: Betty Miles
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1994-09-01
Genre: Censorship
ISBN: 9780394825953

Eleven-year-old Kate's ordinary life in a small Massachusetts town becomes quite extraordinary when she becomes involved with Maudie Schmidt and an inter-school reading project.

Miles

Miles
Author: Miles Davis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1990-09-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0671725823

Miles discusses his life and music from playing trumpet in high school to the new instruments and sounds from the Caribbean.

Miles Davis

Miles Davis
Author: Ian Carr
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 681
Release: 2009-04-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0786747013

This exhaustively researched, revised edition of Ian Carr's classic biography throws new light on Davis' life and career: from the early days in New York with Charlie Parker; to the Birth of Cool; through his drug addiction in the early 1950s and the years of extraordinary achievements (1954-1960), during which he signed with Columbia and collaborated with such unequaled talents as John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly and Cannonball Adderly. Carr also explores Davis' dark, reclusive period (1975-1980), offering firsthand accounts of his descent into addiction, as well as his dramatic return to life and music. Carr has talked with the people who knew Miles and his music best including Bill Evans, Joe Zawinul, Keith Jarrett, and Jack DeJohnette, and has conducted interviews with Ron Carter, Max Roach, John Scofield and others.

So What

So What
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.