Miles: The Autobiography
Do you want to really understand one of the truly great jazz musicians of all time, or is he a hero for you and do you want to preserve that status? If the latter is true, don’t read this book. Miles is himself all through it and you will find here, expressed in his own...
Downbeat: The Great Jazz Interviews
Does anything really need to be said about this book other than the title? It’s the great jazz magazine DownBeat, and interviews of – well, everyone! Established in 1934 in Chicago, DownBeat came to be called the “Bible of Jazz.” This collection of interview is in honor of the magazine’s 75th anniversary (2009) and contains...
A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album
John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme was by many measures the second-greatest jazz album of all time (after Miles Davis Kind of Blue). Ashley Kahn, having already given us a close look at Kind of Blue, now does the same for A Love Supreme. The album was quickly put together, recorded in a single evening by...