Musicians in Their Own Words
MUSIC
352 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Trade Paper, EPUB, PDF, Mobipocket
Trade Paper, $18.99 (US $18.99) (CA $25.99)
Publication Date: June 2021
ISBN 9781641604673
Rights: WOR X UK, AU, NZ & IE
Chicago Review Press (Jun 2021)
eBook Editions Available
Will it work on my eReader?Gathering the 30 most vital Miles Davis interviews—on his music, his life, and his philosophy—this collection reveals the jazz icon as a complex and contradictory man, secretive at times but extraordinarily revealing at others. Miles was not only a musical genius, but an enigma, and nowhere else was he so compelling, exasperating, and entertaining as he was in his interviews, which vary from polite to outrageous, from straight-ahead to contrarian. Many were conducted by leading journalists like Leonard Feather, Stephen Davis, Ben Sidran, Mike Zwerin, and Nat Hentoff; while others have never before been printed, and are newly transcribed from radio and television shows—making this the definitive source for anyone wanting to really encounter the legend in print.
"Here is Miles Davis's less familiar voice, his speaking voice. . . . Maher and Dorr gather together Davis's greatest hits in Q & A, and they make compelling reading." —Jack Chambers, author, Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis
"[A] telling book…gripping from beginning to end. You will not be able to put it down." —examiner.com
Paul Maher Jr. is the author of Jack Kerouac’s American Journey and Kerouac: His Life and Work and the editor of the critically acclaimed collection Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac. He lives in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Michael K. Dorr is a poet, playwright, editor, former publisher, and founder of LitPub, Ink, a literary agency. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.