By Miles Davis
For greater than 40 years Miles Davis has been within the entrance rank of yankee tune. Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles is likely one of the most crucial and influential musicians on the earth. the topic of a number of biographies, now Miles speaks out himself approximately his remarkable life.
"Miles: The Autobiography, " like Miles himself, holds not anything again. For the 1st time Miles talks approximately his five-year silence. He speaks frankly and brazenly approximately his drug challenge and the way he overcame it. He condemns the racism he has encountered within the song company and in American society quite often. And he discusses the ladies in his lifestyles. yet principally, Miles talks approximately tune and musicians, together with the legends he has performed with through the years: chook, Dizzy, Monk, Trane, Mingus, and lots of others.
The guy who has given us the most fascinating track of the earlier few a long time has now given us a compelling and interesting autobiography, that includes a concise discography and thirty-two pages of images.
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All of a sudden he started doing this strange-sounding music, almost overnight. " You can hit anything, any kind of chord. Like John Cage playing the shit he's playing, making all them strange sounds and noises. Music is wide open for anything. " Like, he'd be playing "My Funny Valentine" in a major key and it's supposed to be 94 played in D minor. But he would just smile that sweet smile of his and keep doing what he was doing. Mingus was something else, man, a pure genius. I loved him. Anyway, during the summer of 1946-late August I think-Billy Eckstine's band came to Los Angeles.
On the first day of rehearsal, everybody showed up but Bird. We waited around for a couple of hours and I ended up rehearsing the band. Now, opening night, the Three Deuces is packed. We ain't seen Bird in a week, but we'd been rehearsing our asses off. So here this nigger comes in smiling and shit, asking is everybody ready to play, in that fake British accent of his. " I tell him. He nods, counts off the beat and plays every motherfucking tune in the exact key we had 102 rehearsed it in. He played like a motherfucker.
Sonny Criss, an alto player, used to sit in, and Art Farmer, Red Callender, the bassist, and Red's protege, that crazy, beautiful motherfucker, Charlie Mingus. Charlie Mingus loved Rird, man, almost like I have never seen nobody love. Maybe Max Roach loved Bird that much. But Mingus, shit, he used to come to see and hear Bird almost every night. He couldn't get enough of Bird. He also liked me a lot. But Mingus could play the bass and everybody knew when they heard him that he would become as bad as he became.