
Milestones
The Music And Times Of Miles Davis
Jack Chambers(Author)
Da Capo Press Inc
Published on 22. August 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
838 pages
978-0-306-80849-4 (ISBN)
Description
This invaluable biography of trumpeter and jazz-bebop-fusion innovator Miles Davis (1926-1991) includes a substantial new introduction that for the first time details Davis's turbulent last decade the drawing and painting that became an additional creative outlet the musical lows of his final Freaky Deaky" years the family warfare that has erupted over his last will and testament and,in a long-awaited expose,the truth behind Davis's so-called Autobiography, the book that borrowed" gigantic portions from Milestones and passed them off as Davis's. Jack Chambers breaks his silence to discuss the extent of the borrowing" and who was responsible. Here is the last word on the music and controversial life of Miles Davis.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Hachette Books
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-306-80849-4 (9780306808494)
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Person
Jack Chambers, the author of several books, lives in Canada, where he is professor of linguistics at the University of Toronto.