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The Book on Miles
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In his autobiography, the trumpeter Miles Davis proves to be his own most perceptive critic.
By Francis Davis
In Miles: The Autobiography the trumpeter Miles Davis remembers his excitement at hearing the Billy Eckstine Orchestra, with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, in a St.
Louis nightclub in 1944. It was his first in-person exposure to bebop, and also his baptism by fire as a musician—just eighteen at the time, he was pressed into service as an emergency fill-in. “The way that band was playing music—that was all I wanted to hear.”
Davis's reaction was typical of that of most young musicians in the 1940s.
What thrilled them about bebop was its impossible combination of the breakneck and the Byzantine.
Miles davis autobiography review
It was all they wanted to hear and all they wanted to play. But an early mark of Davis's singularity was that soon after becoming Gillespie's protege and Parker's sideman, he also became their loyal opposition. “Diz and Bird [Park