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1) Miles and me
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An intimate story of Miles Davis, the man, the musician, and his friendship with the young journalist and poet Quincy Troupe--soon to be a major motion picture.
2) Miles ahead
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[2016]
Description
In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and medications, and his mind haunted my unsettling ghosts from the past.
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p2004
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This in-depth look at the man, his horn, and the legend follows his spectacular career, explores his contradictions, and speaks with those who knew him best. Davis also contributes his "ruined voice." Includes Davis's horn work on these songs: Bitches Brew, Water Babies, I Fall in Love Too Easily, Israel, Night in Tunisia, Round Midnight, Miles Ahead, All Blues, and In a Silent Way. "Immortalizes Miles Davis in fine form." -- AudioFile
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2024.
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"The myth of the '60s depends on the 1950s being the 'before times' of conformity, segregation, straightness-The Lonely Crowd and The Organization Man. This all carries some truth, but it does nothing to explain how, in 1959, America's great indigenous art form, jazz, reached the height of its power and popularity, thanks to a number of Black geniuses so legendary they go by one name-Monk, Mingus, Rollins, Coltrane, and, above all, Miles. Nineteen...
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