Download Full eBooks in PDF
The Miles Davis Reader Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Miles Davis Reader book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Frank Alkyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1617137049
"Interviews and features from DownBeat Magazine"--Cover.
Author : Frank Alkyer,Ed Enright,Jason Koransky
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 142343076X
Interviews and features from Downbeat Magazine
Author : George Cole
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 0472032607
The story of the final recordings of one of the greatest jazz musicians of the twentieth century
Author : KIRCHNER BILL
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015048248796
Interviews, essays, and other documents offer information about the life, work, and contributions of the innovative jazz trumpeter whose career stretched from the 1940s to the 1970s.
Author : Richard Cook
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195322668
Publisher description
Author : John Szwed
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780684859835
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.
Author : Richard Williams
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571261178
'It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.' Miles Davis's Kind of Blue is the best selling piece of music in the history of jazz, and for many listeners among the most haunting in all of twentieth-century music. It is also, notoriously, the only jazz album many people own. Recorded in 1959 (in nine miraculous hours), there has been nothing like it since. Its atmosphere - slow, dark, meditative, luminous - became all-pervasive for a generation, and has remained the epitome of melancholy coolness ever since. Richard Williams has written a history of the album which for once does not rip it out of its wider cultural context. He evokes the essence of the music - identifying the qualities that make it so uniquely appealing - while making effortless connections to painting, literature, philosophy and poetry. This makes for an elegant, graceful and beautifully-written narrative.
Author : Eric Nisenson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781466852259
From the moment it was recorded more than 40 years ago, Miles Davis's Kind of Blue was hailed as a jazz classic. To this day it remains the bestselling jazz album of all time, embraced by fans of all musical genres. The album represented a true watershed moment in jazz history, and helped to usher in the first great jazz revolution since bebop. The Making of Kind of Blue is an exhaustively researched examination of how this masterpiece was born. Recorded with pianist Bill Evans, tenor saxophonist John Coltrane, composer/theorist George Russell and Miles himself, the album represented a fortuitous conflation of some of the real giants of the jazz world, at a time when they were at the top of their musical game. The end result was a recording that would forever change the face of American music. Through extensive interviews and access to rare recordings Nisenson pieced together the whole story of this miraculous session, laying bare the genius of Miles Davis, other musicians, and the heart of jazz itself.
Author : Farah Jasmine Griffin,Salim Washington
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781466855298
When the renowned trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis chose the members of his quintet in 1955, he passed over well-known, respected saxophonists such as Sonny Rollins to pick out the young, still untested John Coltrane. What might have seemed like a minor decision at the time would instead set the course not just for each of their careers but for jazz itself. Clawing at the Limits of Cool is the first book to focus on Davis and Coltrane's musical interaction and its historical context, on the ways they influenced each other and the tremendous impact they've had on culture since then. It chronicles the drama of their collaboration, from their initial historic partnership to the interlude of their breakup, during which each man made tremendous progress toward his personal artistic goals. And it continues with the last leg of their journey together, a time when the Miles Davis group, featuring John Coltrane, forever changed the landscape of jazz. Authors Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington examine the profound implications that the Davis/Coltrane collaboration would have for jazz and African American culture, drawing parallels to the changing standards of African American identity with their public personas and private difficulties. With vastly different personal and musical styles, the two men could not have been more different. One exemplified the tough, closemouthed cool of the fifties while the other made the transition during this time from unfocused junkie to a religious pilgrim who would inspire others to pursue spiritual enlightenment in the coming decade. Their years together mark a watershed moment, and Clawing at the Limits of Cool draws on both cultural history and precise musical detail to illuminate the importance that their collaboration would have for jazz and American history as a whole.
Author : Ashley Kahn
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Jazz
ISBN : 1862075417
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.
Author : Quincy Troupe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520216245
Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique relationship. It is also an engrossing chronicle of the author's own development, both artistic and personal. As Davis's collaborator on Miles: The Autobiography,Troupe--one of the major poets to emerge from the 1960s--had exceptional access to the musician. This memoir goes beyond the life portrayed in the autobiography to describe in detail the processes of Davis's spectacular creativity and the joys and difficulties his passionate, contradictory temperament posed to the men's friendship. It shows how Miles Davis, both as a black man and an artist, influenced not only Quincy Troupe but whole generations. Troupe has written that Miles Davis was "irascible, contemptuous, brutally honest, ill-tempered when things didn't go his way, complex, fair-minded, humble, kind and a son-of-a-bitch." The author's love and appreciation for Davis make him a keen, though not uncritical, observer. He captures and conveys the power of the musician's presence, the mesmerizing force of his personality, and the restless energy that lay at the root of his creativity. He also shows Davis's lighter side: cooking, prowling the streets of Manhattan, painting, riding his horse at his Malibu home. Troupe discusses Davis's musical output, situating his albums in the context of the times--both political and musical--out of which they emerged. Miles and Me is an unparalleled look at the act of creation and the forces behind it, at how the innovations of one person can inspire both those he knows and loves and the world at large.
Author : Kathleen Cornell Berman
Publisher : Page Street Kids
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1624146902
Miles can’t sleep. Taps his toes, snaps his fingers, can’t stop thinking of ways to make music his own. As a young musician, Miles Davis heard music everywhere. This biography explores the childhood and early career of a jazz legend as he finds his voice and shapes a new musical sound. Follow his progression from East St. Louis to rural Arkansas, from Julliard and NYC jazz clubs to the prestigious Newport Jazz Festival. Rhythmic free verse imbues his story with musicality and gets readers in the groove. Music teachers and jazz fans will appreciate the beats and details throughout, and Miles’ drive to constantly listen, learn, and create will inspire kids to develop their own voice. With evocative illustrations, this glimpse into Miles Davis’ life is sure to captivate music lovers young and old.
Author : Victor Svorinich
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781626743571
Listen to This stands out as the first book exclusively dedicated to Davis’s watershed 1969 album, Bitches Brew. Victor Svorinich traces its incarnations and inspirations for ten-plus years before its release. The album arrived as the jazz scene waned beneath the rise of rock and roll and as Davis (1926–1991) faced large changes in social conditions affecting the African-American consciousness. This new climate served as a catalyst for an experiment that many considered a major departure. Davis’s new music projected rock and roll sensibilities, the experimental essence of 1960s’ counterculture, yet also harsh dissonances of African-American reality. Many listeners embraced it, while others misunderstood and rejected the concoction. Listen to This is not just the story of Bitches Brew. It reveals much of the legend of Miles Davis—his attitude and will, his grace under pressure, his bands, his relationship to the masses, his business and personal etiquette, and his response to extraordinary social conditions seemingly aligned to bring him down. Svorinich revisits the mystery and skepticism surrounding the album, and places it into both a historical and musical context using new interviews, original analysis, recently found recordings, unearthed session data sheets, memoranda, letters, musical transcriptions, scores, and a wealth of other material. Additionally, Listen to This encompasses a thorough examination of producer Teo Macero’s archives and Bitches Brew’s original session reels in order to provide the only complete day-to-day account of the sessions.
Author : Paul Tingen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 0823083608
Presents an in-depth exploration of the musician's controversial electric period and the impact it had on the jazz community, as drawn from firsthand recollections about his artistic and personal life. Reprint.
Author : Francis Davis
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780786749812
From Frank Sinatra to Sun Ra, from the jazz age to middle age, with thoughts on everything in-between, Francis Davis has been writing about American music and American culture for more than twenty years. His essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and the Village Voice among countless other publications from coast to coast. And now, for the first time, here are his most important writings of his impressive career-the quintessential Davis on everything from why Rent set musicals back two decades, to what Ken Burns should have filmed. And Davis's writing is as enjoyable as the music of which he writes. The New York Times Book Review has compared Davis's work to "a well-blown solo."