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It's About That Time: Miles Davis on and Off Record (Paperback)

by Richard Cook (Author)
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  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Atlantic Books (10 Nov 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 184354332X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1843543329
  • Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Richard Cook's It's About That Time: Miles Davis On and Off Record is not a conventional biography. Instead, it evaluates, in the order in which they were made, all the trumpeter's recordings (official and unauthorized), and relates them to events in Miles's life, as well as the wider currents in music. For Cook, fourteen albums in particular are key to understanding Davis's evolution. Each of these is considered in detail, in particular their contribution to Davis's development as instrumentalist, group leader and composer. Cooks also reassesses the contributions of his fellow musicians, which have all too often been ignored or underplayed. It's About That Time is a comprehensive and rigorous guide to the music and times of Miles Davis that burns away the fog of myth that surrounds its complex and contrary subject. It is an essential companion for anyone wanting to understand the trumpeter's musical odyssey over four exhilarating decades.


About the Author

Richard Cook edits the magazine Jazz Review and is the co-author, with Brian Morton, of the Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, which is now in its fifth edition.He is also the author of Blue Note Records: The Biography.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Miles guide!, 27 Dec 2005
By L. Ketzer (Almelo, Overijssel Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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Wow, this is a fantastic book for Miles fans. Cook who also wrote the Penquin guides to jazz gives here a fantastic inside in all of Miles Davis recordings. If you want some information about albums and cd's of Miles Davis this book is the one to have. great info on the recordings and the side musicians who were on the set.All of Miles great recordings are reviewed here in length with all the information you need. You want some info on Miles cd's?: get this book!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good overview of his recording career, 7 Jul 2006
By ricadus (London) - See all my reviews
The book reviews the recordings and related events and musical associates in Miles Davis' life, taking certain albums considered to be of particular importance and making these the focal point of each of the book's chapters - rather like a programme you might hear serialized on BBC Radio 3.

As well as the 14 main albums, his other album releases are also discussed and illustrated, a photo of the original LP cover inset into the sides of the text columns like a bookmark at the point where first mentioned in the text.

Each chapter also begins with a full page photograph of Miles, taken during the particular period being featured.

There is also a reasonably comprehensive and clearly arranged discography of official live and studio recordings spanning the years 1945-1991.

My only real gripe is that the printing of the photographs (in my first edition copy) is rather poor quality, with detail in the darker areas appearing as solid black. Hopefully later editions will improve this. It would have been lovely to have had all those fantastic 50s, 60s and 70s album covers in colour as well - it's a black-only printing - but I guess book publishing economics made this impossible.
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