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Title: Miles by Miles Davis ISBN: 0-671-72582-3 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 15 September, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (49 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Collaborator occassionally but never politically
Comment: Miles' words match his music. That revolutionary sound burns, subverts and takes you to a whole new space. If you read his life story you'll never question whether he put himself into his sound. The book doesn't pander to anyone. ( A mild way of stating he writes raw and real.) He was a sinner but did not succomb to the pressures of the establishment press. Who else would turn his his back on the audiences, and terrorize influential interviewers?
This volume, like all his work, totally his own; proves him an intolerant bully, certain drug addict, chronic
irreverent often seething with universal contempt. The section of Cicely Tyson's extravagant 'Tribute to Miles' is too good for me to spoil it here. Miles surely demythologizes Tyson, whom he claimed he never loved. But he also gets a few jabs in at Trane, and we all know the pantheon wherein he presides.
His childhood is interesting and not the typical po' boy refrain. His father a dentist, comfortable but surely not wealthy. Still, on the whole, Davis had it better in St. Louis than most black folks.
This book is a "must read" for jazz lovers and people who seek liberation from the ordinary. Hear Miles talk about how good he looked and sounded. Nobody else could have written this book. Nobody would dare.
Rating: 4
Summary: An important work of history and honest soul searching
Comment: Miles Davis, with all his faults, flaws and laughable quirks, was still one of the most important musicians of the twentieth century. It takes a book like this where he leaves no stone unturned to make clear the debt we all owe him and his contemporaries, as well as the restless spirit that lead him beyond what he helped to establish as modern jazz. In many ways he shows himself to be, ironically, the archetypal and sterotypical artist simultaneously. Yet his telling of the profound friendships he had with Max Roach and Coltrane, his deep awe and respect but dispassionate eye for the genius and addictions of Charlie Parker, the loves of his life- and what he put them through, and his brutal, courageous hoonesty in general, gives us a gift of his haunting humanity.
But above all, this about the music. His own telling of his style, the true creators of the form in total and the actual environment where it was produced, and how he created so many styles of his own is enough to make this book worth having.
You will never find another human being who can make curse words sound so beautiful!
If you love jazz, or are a jazz musician, this book will remind you why. And why you love Miles. Everybody does.
Rating: 5
Summary: Miles lets his beautiful but imperfect soul speak.
Comment: Wow! I recently inhaled this book and felt obliged to review it. It is captivating and unapologetic, even brutal at times... and REAL... I loved it for this.
Great works of art can easily appear larger than life when they are displayed in museums or remastered in handsome packaging for the world to enjoy... It's easy to be rightfully consumed by their beauty and forget the harshness of life that beats down on us all (artists included).
Miles Davis's music for me is the ultimate escape... the ultimate adventure into a relaxing, interesting aural universe. So I must admit it was a quick jolt to the system to read autobiographical tales of neglect, addiction, jealousy, financial stuggle, broken relationships, boastful egos, clashes with authority, poor health, disposable relationships and racial unrest in the United States... the writing here is REAL. The 400+ pages here have potential to "push buttons" and have you shaking your head in disbelief. In today's homogenized Brittany Spears world of image obsession and greed, it's a pleasure to read a book by someone who just "doesn't care".
Miles lets his beautiful but imperfect soul speak. I wouldn't want to read otherwise.
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Title: So What: The Life of Miles Davis by John Szwed ISBN: 0684859823 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography by Ian Carr ISBN: 1560252413 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Miles and Me by Quincy Troupe ISBN: 0520216245 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 08 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis by Jack Chambers ISBN: 0306808498 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title:Birth of the Cool ASIN: B00005614M Publisher: Blue Note Records Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $10.99 |
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