Miles Davis

The Complete Illustrated History

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• Publisher: Voyageur Press
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781610586825
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Jazz Music

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

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION: Running the Voodoo Down
• CHAPTER 1 THE YOUNG ARTIST 1926–1948
• CHAPTER 2 BIRTH OF THE COOL 1949–1953
• CHAPTER 3 HARD BOP 1954–1958
• CHAPTER 4 KIND OF BLUE 1958–1963
• CHAPTER 5 A NEW ENERGY 1964–1968
• CHAPTER 6 BITCHES BREW AND BEYOND 1969–1974
• CHAPTER 7 HIATUS AND RECOVERY 1975–1985
• CHAPTER 8 TUTU AND FAREWELL 1986–1991
• AFTERWORD: Miles in the Afterlife
• INDEX