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Article: Miles: the Autobiography.
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- January 29, 1990
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MILES: The Autobiography
By Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe.
Miles Davis is one of the only jazz musicians who could get away with putting just his first name and picture on the front of a book and still sell more than a few copies. After all, for the forty-plus years of his professional career Miles has been standing at or near the center of one musical earthquake after another.
If he came to New York on the pretext of studying at the Juilliard School of Music, he soon found his real mentors, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk, and so from the age of 18 he worked with these bebop revolutionaries. By 1949 he'd decided to pursue a new ...