Franck Bergerot

The most comprehensive book on the artist to date, offering an insightful look into the legendary musician and his enormous impact on the development of jazz. Miles Davis explores the life and art of one of the greatest visionaries in jazz history—through photographs, handwritten musical scores, album covers, posters, and more—cementing his reputation as the embodiment of cool, both on- and offstage. To examine his extraordinary career is also to examine the history of jazz from the mid-1940s through the early 1990s, as Davis was crucial in almost every important innovation and stylistic development during that time. His genius paved the way for these changes, both with his own performances and recordings, and by choosing collaborators with whom he forged new directions. Miles Davis—trumpeter, bandleader, and composer—was one of the most important figures in jazz history. He was born in a well-to-do family in St. Louis in 1926 and died in a Los Angeles hospital in 1991. He was at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including cool jazz, hard bop, free jazz, and fusion. Davis worked with many of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, including Ron Carter, John Coltrane, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Charlie Parker, and Max Roach, among numerous others.

Miles Davis

We Want Miles

Musée de la musique (Paris, France)

Archétype du jazzman aussi élégant qu'inaccessible, Miles Davis est, dans l'imaginaire du siècle, l'incarnation du cool, par son attitude et par son jeu. Homme à femmes, personnalité énigmatique capable de traits de génie et de fureur, ce fils de la bourgeoisie afro-américaine s'est hissé parmi les plus grands créateurs du jazz, genre qu'il n'a cessé de défier et de décloisonner à force de révolutions esthétiques. En livrant photographies exceptionnelles, manuscrits de partitions, pochettes originales et biographie experte, We Want Miles tente de retracer la légende de cet artiste hors du commun, l'un des plus fascinants de toute l'histoire de la musique.

Franck Bergerot

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