Miles Davis - The Complete Illustrated History by Sonny Rollins

Miles Davis - The Complete Illustrated History by Sonny Rollins

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 Bessieres, Gerald Early, Nate Chinen, Nalini Jones, Dave Liebman, Garth Cartwright, and more.

'a splendid coffee table book.. perceptive, intelligent and totally serious.' The Jazz Rag 'as nicely rounded a book on Miles as there has been for some time. A pleasure to look at, too.' -- Brian Morton Jazz Journal

Francis Davis is the jazz critic for The Village Voice, a contributing editor for The Atlantic Monthly, and author of numerous books on jazz and the blues.Robin D. G. Kelley is the author of the landmark biography Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original.Comedian Bill Cosby has been a jazz fan since way back when.Ashley Kahn has written books on the making of two major jazz albums, Kind of Blue by Miles Davis and A Love Supreme by John Coltrane, as well as a history of Impulse Records.

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ISBN 13	9780760342626
ISBN 10	0760342628
Title	Miles Davis - The Complete Illustrated History
Author	Sonny Rollins
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Book
Publisher	Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Year published	2012-11-19
Number of pages	224
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.