Full name: Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography

Author: Ian Carr Year: 1982 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Music, Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781560252412 9781560259671 1560252413 1560259671

Ian Carr's book is the perfect counterpoint and corrective to Miles Davis's own brilliant but vitriolic autobiography, providing a balanced portrait of one of the undisputed cultural icons of the 20th century. Carr has talked with the people who knew the man and his music best; and for this edition, updated since Davis's death, he has conducted new interviews with a number of jazz greats, including Ron Carter, Max Roach, and John Scofield.From the early New York apprenticeship with Charlie Parker, through Davis's drug addiction of the early 1950s, to the years (1954-1960) during which he signed with Columbia and recorded masterpieces with John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, and Cannonball Adderly, Carr sheds new light on Davis's life and career. His reclusive period (1975-1980) is explored with firsthand accounts of his descent back into addiction as is his dramatic return to life and music. Similar books: Thelonious Monk by Robin Kelley Louis Armstrong by Laurence Bergreen Pops by Terry Teachout Transformer by Victor Bockris Ascension by Eric Nisenson Footprints by Michelle Mercer John Coltrane by Lewis Porter Chasin' the Trane by J. C. Thomas So What by John Szwed Hardcore Troubadour by Lauren St. John Zappa by Barry Miles Satchmo by Gary Giddins Coltrane by Ben Ratliff Glenn Gould by Otto Friedrich Nick Drake by Patrick Humphries This Is Gonna Hurt by Nikki Sixx White Line Fever by Lemmy Kilmister Light and Shade by Brad Tolinski No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins Mozipedia by Simon Goddard