Updated Edition-If you ever needed proof that a magazine can have a love affair with a musician you're holding it in your hands. For DownBeat the preeminent publication of the jazz world Miles Dewey Davis was one of its most cherished subjects. Since it began covering the jazz scene in 1939 no other artist has been more diligently chronicled in its pages than Davis.The beauty of this collection is seeing the development of an artist over time. The reviews of his music go from quietly introducing a new talent to revering perhaps the greatest jazz artist of his generation. The feature articles begin with a very young very polite Davis lamenting I've worked so little. Icould probably tell you where I was playing any night in the last three years. As he develops the interviews show Davis gaining confidence and stature showing swagger and becoming the over-the-top say-it-like-it-is showman that made every interview an event.The Miles Davis Reader compiles more than 200 news stories feature articles and reviews by some of the greatest writers in jazz into one volume. It delivers a patchwork of his words and music - in the moment as they happened. With several lengthy features added along with a dozen new photographs this new edition is a beautiful series of snapshots a year-by-year ride through the many phases of Davis as an artist and as a man.

Le Sfere (8). Par PESTALOZZA L.. Il racconto di un viaggio musicale, ma anche di un viaggio tra i costumi e i paesaggi di e intorno a sette città sovietiche diverse, lontane. A partire da Kalinin, Mosca, Leningrado, Volgograd, Riga, Baku, Tblisi, la Musica in Urss diventa fonte di informazione sulla vita musicale sovietica, sui suoi protagonisti, sulle tendenze compositive che si affiancano e spesso si contrappongono; sul pubblico, su come si fa e si consuma ogni genere di musica, colta, rock, jazz e leggera. Di estremo interesse per il lettore i dati e le notizie su come e chi organizza la musica in Urss, su chi la produce e come lavorano compositori, esecutori professionisti e amatori; sulla capillarepresenza di club e case di cultura dove si organizzano spettacoli e concerti di ogni genere./ Livre / Biographie