The revised edition of Ian Carr’s classic biography of Miles Davis
throws new light on his life and career from the early days in New York,
with Charlie Parker, to his Birth of the Cool band, through his drug
addiction in the early 1950s, and the years of extraordinary
achievements, 1954-1960, during which he created a whole series of
masterpieces on record, and drew to his band such unequalled talents as
John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly and Cannonball Adderly.
Carr
also gives a detailed description of Miles’s dark reclusive period,
1975-1980, and his descent towards disintegration. He also tells how the
events of one single day forced Davis to turn back to life and return
slowly to music.
The incessant activity of his last ten years – the
music-making, his painting and art exhibitions, his extraordinary
trumpet playing, his marriage to and divorce from Cicely Tyson – is
recounted with fascinating insight. Miles Davis, whose work has been
called ‘one of the greatest musical legacies of the twentieth century’,
remained controversial until the end, and this definitive biography
examines the controversy from all sides.
With access to the inner
circle of Davis’s friends and associates, Ian Carr includes new
interviews with such jazz greats as Max Roach, George Russell, George
Avakian, Ron Carter, John Carisi, John Scofield, Bill Evans and Jack and
Lydia DeJohnette, and revisits those who contributed to the first
edition, including Keith Jarrett, Dave Holland, Joe Zawinul and Paul
Buckmaster. This edition is an essential source for those who want to
understand Miles, his music and the ‘jazz life’.
Thank you, have only read his autobiography - it'll be good to get a different perspective.
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