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A Miles Davis reader / edited by Bill Kirchner.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1997.Description: ix, 272 p. : music ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 156098774X (alk. paper)
  • 1560988029
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 788.9/2165/092 21
LOC classification:
  • ML419.D39 M55 1997
Contents:
Self-portrait / Miles Davis -- Miles Davis in retrospect / Michael Ullman -- Nothing but bop? "Stupid," says Miles / Pat Harris -- Miles Davis and the cool tendency / Andre Hodeir -- Miles Davis and the birth of the cool: a question of influence / Bill Kirchner -- Collector's items / Max Harrison -- They all juggled milk bottles / W.T. Lhamon -- Miles Davis: "One of the great mother fuckers" / Amiri Baraka -- Sheer alchemy, for a while: Miles Davis and Gil Evans / Max Harrison -- Miles and Gil: portrait of a friendship / Marc Crawford.
Miles Davis times three: the evolution of a jazz artist / Don Heckman -- Blindfold tests / Leonard Feather -- Miles Davis and "My Funny Valentine": the evolution of a solo / Howard Brofsky -- Miles Davis: 1964-69 recordings / Harvey Pekar -- Lost quintet / Peter Keepnews -- Unmasking of Miles Davis / Chris Albertson -- Afternoon at Mile's / Sy Johnson -- Miles Gloriosus / Bob Blumenthal -- Mile's wiles / Gary Giddins -- Listening to Davis live in London: the 1980s / Max Harrison -- Miles Davis biography fails to unravel strands of art and image / Larry Kart -- Miles davis, musical dialogician / Gary Tomlinson.
Miles to go, promises to keep / Gary Giddins -- Memorial for Miles, and the friend who couldn't make it / Marc Crawford.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Self-portrait / Miles Davis -- Miles Davis in retrospect / Michael Ullman -- Nothing but bop? "Stupid," says Miles / Pat Harris -- Miles Davis and the cool tendency / Andre Hodeir -- Miles Davis and the birth of the cool: a question of influence / Bill Kirchner -- Collector's items / Max Harrison -- They all juggled milk bottles / W.T. Lhamon -- Miles Davis: "One of the great mother fuckers" / Amiri Baraka -- Sheer alchemy, for a while: Miles Davis and Gil Evans / Max Harrison -- Miles and Gil: portrait of a friendship / Marc Crawford.

Miles Davis times three: the evolution of a jazz artist / Don Heckman -- Blindfold tests / Leonard Feather -- Miles Davis and "My Funny Valentine": the evolution of a solo / Howard Brofsky -- Miles Davis: 1964-69 recordings / Harvey Pekar -- Lost quintet / Peter Keepnews -- Unmasking of Miles Davis / Chris Albertson -- Afternoon at Mile's / Sy Johnson -- Miles Gloriosus / Bob Blumenthal -- Mile's wiles / Gary Giddins -- Listening to Davis live in London: the 1980s / Max Harrison -- Miles Davis biography fails to unravel strands of art and image / Larry Kart -- Miles davis, musical dialogician / Gary Tomlinson.

Miles to go, promises to keep / Gary Giddins -- Memorial for Miles, and the friend who couldn't make it / Marc Crawford.

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