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Books: The ogre who longed to be played on the radio The Last Miles: The music of Miles Davis 1980-91 By George Cole EQUINOX pounds 25 pounds 22.50 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897
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Miles Davis is the obvious jazz case study. Innovative,
controversial, fearless, heartless, irascible, unpredictable, drug-
addicted, egocentric and bleakly beautiful, the late trumpeter is a
genuine icon, one that even the rock crowd acknowledges. Books have
to be written about him. Miles Davis in the 1980s is not an obvious
case study, though. His albums from that period, such as Star People,
Decoy and You're Under Arrest, inspire little of the devotion
lavished on 1949's Birth of the Cool,...
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Shooting cool.(Miles Davis)
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; Sixteen years after his death, Miles Davis is getting plenty of attention, with a repackaged catalogue and a Don Cheadle--produced biopic in the works. Unearthing never developed film from an impromptu 1955 shoot by her husband, photographer TOM PALUMBO, PATRICIA BOSWORTH places the 28-year-old
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Grappling with Miles Davis, onscreen
International Herald Tribune
; Pat H. Broeske International Herald Tribune 11-22-2006 Fifteen years after his death Miles Davis has been enjoying a comeback tour. A new marketing campaign, capitalizing on what would have been his 80th birthday earlier this year, has been touting Davis, the trumpeter, bandleader and jazz legend,
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FROM 1 HOUR, 5 CDS AN OBSCURE MILES DAVIS SOUNDTRACK BECOMES A BOX SET
The Boston Globe
; Miles Davis has enjoyed a lucrative afterlife. A dozen years after his death in 1991, he continues to be the subject of lavishly packaged reissues, box sets, and endless tributes. His image is now nearly as marketable as Marilyn Monroe's or James Dean's, adorning everything from Gap ads ("Miles
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Miles Davis at age 60: All he wants is respect // After 40 years in the business, he is forging yet another sound
Chicago Sun-Times
; "I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend," the man with the horn says. "Just call me Miles Davis." It is respect that he seeks, not labels that put his ever-changing music into neat little boxes. Davis, who turns 60 on May 26, is a musical innovator and a survivor. A recognized
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Deeply odd, deeply cool Martin Gayford on the complex character and music of Miles Davis, the man who changed jazz - not always for the better
The Sunday Telegraph London
; So What: The Life of Miles Davis by John Szwed Heinemann, pounds 18.99, 488 pp pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 IN 1958 Kingsley Amis went to hear Miles Davis at a jazz club in New York. Later he wrote in his Memoirs that he had tried to forget the sound of Davis's trumpet but,
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