Bill Cole's study of the music of Miles Davis covers his career from his first meeting with Charlie Parker up to his experimentation with electric music in the early-1970s. Cole sheds new light not only on Miles Davis's technique, recordings and philosophy, but on those of his fellow musicians as well: Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown, Bill Evans, Gerry Mulligan, Charles Mingus and others.

Supplemented with 13 musical transcriptions of his solos and a complete list of his recording sessions until 1972, Miles Davis: The Early Years illuminates much more than a life and work of one of jazz's most innovative musicians: it explores the very nature of African American music itself.

CONTENTS
Introduction
Biography
Style
Recording Sessions
Bibliography
Transcriptions

BILL COLE is professor emeritus of music at Dartmouth College and the author of John Coltrane.

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