Miles On Miles: Interviews And Encounters With Miles Davis

Author: PAUL MAHER

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Price : 70.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781556527067
Publisher : Independent Publishers Group
Imprint : LAWRENCE HILL
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Publication date : 01 April 2009
Dimensions : 235mm X 160mm X 25mm
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Gathering 30 most vital Miles Davis interviews - on his music, his life, and his philosophy - this collection reveals the jazz icon as a complex and contradictory man, secretive at times but extraordinarily revealing at others. Miles was not only a musical genius, but an enigma, and nowhere else was he so compelling, exasperating, and entertaining as he was in his interviews, which vary from polite to outrageous, from straight-ahead to contrarian. Many were conducted by leading journalists like Leonard Feather, Stephen Davis, Ben Sidran, Mike Zwerin, and Nat Hentoff; while others have never before been printed, and are newly transcribed from radio and television shows - making this the definitive source for anyone wanting to really encounter the legend in print.

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"Here is Miles Davis's less familiar voice, his speaking voice. . . . Maher and Dorr gather together Davis's greatest hits in Q & A, and they make compelling reading." --Jack Chambers, author, "Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis"

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