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Acclaimed
as one of the greatest influences on the history of jazz, Miles Davis
provided during his 46-year career the impetus for major changes in both
the jazz idiom and popular mainstream music. This anthology of twenty-four
interviews, reviews, record liner notes, and critical essays by some of
the century's foremost jazz critics traces the evolution of Davis's music
from his early years as a trumpeter with Charlie Parker's quintet; through
the pathbreaking 1949-50 Birth of the Cool recordings; the stellar
groups of the 1950s and 1960s; the 'electric' 1969 Bitches Brew
album; to his reemergence in 1981 after a six-year hiatus. A
Miles Davis Reader focuses on Davis's music but also reveals
the opinions and characteristics of a musician who was an American original.