The Last Miles

The Last Miles
Author: George Cole
Publsiher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 570
Release: 2007-07-17
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0472032607

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The story of the final recordings of one of the greatest jazz musicians of the twentieth century

Miles

Miles
Author: Miles Davis,Quincy Troupe
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1990-09-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780671725822

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

Kind of Blue

Kind of Blue
Author: Ashley Kahn
Publsiher: Granta Books
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2002
Genre: Jazz
ISBN: 1862075417

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Now in paperback and illustrated with vintage photos, "Kind of Blue" is "a small treasure" ("The New Yorker") and the bestselling account of the creation of a jazz classic. 50 photos.

Miles Davis

Miles Davis
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Voyageur Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-11-17
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781610586825

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Here is the illustrated history of Miles Davis, the world’s most popular jazz trumpeter, composer, bandleader, and musical visionary. Davis is one of the most innovative, influential, and respected figures in the history of music. He’s been at the forefront of bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, and jazz-rock fusion, and remains the favorite and best-selling jazz artist ever, beloved worldwide.He’s also a fascinating character—moody, dangerous, brilliant. His story is phenomenal, including tempestous relationships with movie stars, heroin addictions, police busts, and more; connections with other jazz greats like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Gil Evans, John McLaughlin, and many others; and later fusion ventures that outraged the worlds of jazz and rock.Written by an all-star team, including Sonny Rollins, Bill Cosby, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Clark Terry, Lenny White, Greg Tate, Ashley Kahn, Robin D. G. Kelley, Francis Davis, George Wein, Vincent Bessières, Gerald Early, Nate Chinen, Nalini Jones, Dave Liebman, Garth Cartwright, and more.

The Miles Davis Real Book

The Miles Davis Real Book
Author: Miles Davis
Publsiher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2018-12-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781540045478

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(Fake Book). Miles Davis gave the jazz world innumerable musical innovations and his supporting musicians provided a virtual who's who of the modern jazz era. This updated Real Book featuring Miles' music contains highly accurate, easy-to-read, musician-friendly lead sheets for 70 of his most famous original compositions: All Blues * Bitches Brew * Blue in Green * Boplicity (Be Bop Lives) * Budo * Eighty One * Flamenco Sketches * Four * Freddie Freeloader * Half Nelson * Miles * Milestones * Nardis * The Serpent's Tooth * Seven Steps to Heaven * Sippin' at Bells * So What * Solar * Somethin' Else * The Theme * Tune Up * Vierd Blues * What It Is * and dozens more top tunes. Essential for every jazz fan! Looking for a particular song? Check out the Real Book Songfinder here.

So What

So What
Author: John Szwed
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2004-01-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780684859835

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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.

Miles Davis

Miles Davis
Author: Clarence Bernard Henry
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2017-08-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781317228394

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This research and information guide provides a wide range of scholarship on the life, career, and musical legacy of Miles Davis, and is compiled for an interdisciplinary audience of scholars in jazz and popular music, musicology, and cultural studies. It serves as an excellent tool for librarians, researchers, and scholars sorting through the massive amount of material in the field.

Miles Davis

Miles Davis
Author: Tamra Orr
Publsiher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2012-09-30
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781612283418

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Known to jazz lovers around the world as the Prince of Darkness, Miles Davis lived a roller–coaster life of highs and lows. In this book you will get the chance to meet the musician up close. You can follow his lows of grappling with the power of drug and alcohol addiction and racial prejudice to his highs of achieving world fame and appreciation, plus becoming a husband, father, and grandfather. Meet the man who created some of the most popular jazz music ever played, and find out how his career led him to become an enduring jazz legend.