Miles Davis

This page includes writings by and articles about this person.

The pluralism of the so-called “modern” forms (1945 to the present)

Michel Laplace

Bebop, Miles Davis and the rise of the flugelhorn mark a postwar jazz landscape in which trumpet playing splintered into competing sounds and ideals.

Meeting with collard and mustard greens

Robert L. Watt

A bag of greens opens an unusually intimate view of Miles Davis: cooking, horses, boxing, race and music collide far from the mythology of the stage.

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