Miles: The Autobiography
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (560 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0671725823 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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. "On almost any score this is a remarkable book," observed PW. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. Photos. From Publishers Weekly The brilliant bad man of jazz trumpetry unburdens himself of his hate and anger as well as of his good feelings about life, friendship, sex, drugs, women and cars
He won the 1980 American Book Award for poetry. Quincy Troupe is a poet, journalist, and teacher. In November 1984, he received the Sonning Music Award for lifetime achievement in music, and in March 1990, his twenty-fourth Grammy Award, this time for lifetime achievement in music. He has published essa
Absolutely Leon This book was really awesome! I am a young, beginner jazz enthusiast so I started with the King of jazz and worked my way around. I made a great choice. Not only does Miles give a great account of his music, but also recollects other notable musicians in the process. Which makes it worth wild to study their music further too. I thought this book was going to read like a memoir, you know very tight and numerical and mostly personal, and I was wrong. But its in a good way Davis moves from p. "A Different Reality" according to Man in the Street. Well, what is there to say? As a hard-core music fan and someone who has known some of those mentioned in the book, this is a reality that so many are unaware of, a reality far beyond mere competence on a chosen instrument. the early fascination with music,the yearning for the new, creativity, searching, hard work, deep research, the search for perfection, experiences that affect everything in one's life, enlightened, eclectic, lots of sex, the appreciation of beauty in all of its forms, . Miles Davis tells it how he sees it Luke Hamilton Carlson Miles Davis brings in this book what he brings in his trumpet playing: a unique, totally fascinating voice. Read this passage: "After [Cannonball]'d been with us a while and then after Trane came back, the sound of the band just kept getting thicker and thicker, almost like when a woman uses too much makeup Trane would play some weird, great s***, and Cannonball would take it in the other direction, and I would put my sound right down the middle or float over it, or whatever And then Pa
Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles is one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. He speaks frankly and openly about his drug problem and how he overcame it. For the first time Miles talks about his five-year silence. The subject of several biographies, now Miles speaks out himself about his extraordinary life.Miles: The Autobiography, like Miles himself, holds nothing back. He condemns the racism he has encountered in the music business and in American society generally. But above all,