The Miles Davis Reader

The Miles Davis Reader
Author: Frank Alkyer,Ed Enright,Jason Koransky
Publsiher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2007
Genre: Music
ISBN: 142343076X

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Interviews and features from Downbeat Magazine

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 Bitches Brew

Miles Davis  Bitches Brew
Author: George Grella
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2015-10-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781628929447

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It was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic generation of young musicians, an important handful of whom had been in his band. Rock music was flying off in every direction, just as America itself seemed about to split at its seams. Following the circumscribed grooves and ambiance of In A Silent Way; coming off a tour with a burning new quintet-called 'The Lost Band'-with Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette; he went into the studio with musicians like frighteningly talented guitarist John McLaughlin, and soulful Austrian keyboardist Joe Zawinul. Working with his essential producer, Teo Macero, Miles set a cauldron of ideas loose while the tapes rolled. At the end, there was the newly minted Prince of Darkness, a completely new way forward for jazz and rock, and the endless brilliance and depth of Bitches Brew. Bitches Brew is still one of the most astonishing albums ever made in either jazz or rock. Seeming to fuse the two, it actually does something entirely more revolutionary and open-ended: blending the most avant-garde aspects of Western music with deep grooves, the album rejects both jazz and rock for an entirely different idea of how music can be made.

Miles Davis

Miles Davis
Author: Charlotte Etinde-Crompton,Samuel Willard Crompton
Publsiher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2019-12-15
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781978514751

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A bandleader and trumpet player, Miles Davis was one of the twentieth century's greatest musicians. Performing with jazz greats like Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker early in his career, Davis expanded the idea of what jazz could be. His greatest albums redefined the genre, and members of his band, such as Wayne Shorter and Chick Corea, went on to become famous in their own right. Readers will learn that Davis also faced challenges, including rocky romances and a drug addiction he struggled to kick. Through it all, he found comfort in his music, which remains relevant decades after his death.

Library Journal

Library Journal
Author: Melvil Dewey,Richard Rogers Bowker,L. Pylodet,Charles Ammi Cutter,Bertine Emma Weston,Karl Brown,Helen E. Wessells
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 844
Release: 2007
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN: UOM:39015081489638

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Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

Down Beat

Down Beat
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 886
Release: 1982
Genre: Arts
ISBN: UOM:39015009781579

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The contemporary music magazine.

Illinois Biographical Dictionary

Illinois Biographical Dictionary
Author: Caryn Hannan
Publsiher: State History Publications
Total Pages: 767
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781878592606

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Biographies on interesting and influential persons who have lived in the state of Illinois.

Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald
Author: J. Wilfred Johnson
Publsiher: McFarland
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2010-08-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780786446902

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Ella Fitzgerald was one of America's greatest jazz singers. This volume is as complete a discography of her recorded songs as currently seems possible to compile. This volume also contains a complete discography (1927-1939) for drummer and bandleader Chick Webb, with whom Ella began her recording career in 1935. Part One includes a chronological listing of all known recorded performances of both Chick Webb and Ella. Part Two gives the complete contents of Ella's LPs and CDs, including track listings, titles (with lyricists and composers) and timings. Part Three is an annotated alphabetical listing of all songs contained on all of Fitzgerald's records, with detailed information on each song's composer, lyricist, and history. Reviews of the movies in which Ella appeared and surveys of her career with the Decca, Verve and Pablo music companies are included. The book also has an index of album and CD recordings, and composers, lyricists and musicians.