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A highly entertaining and educational book about one of the most influential personalities of jazz
Miles tells it like it is, no holds barred. The book covers a significant stretch of the history of jazz and lends an interesting and highly entertaining perspective on the music, the people, and history. Of course, you have to read it all with a grain of salt as it is Miles and he pretty much just says whatever he wants regardless of authenticity, diplomacy, or what have you. Just like his music he says and does what he wants.It's a great read and easily one of my favorite books of all time.
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UNIVERSALLY ACCLAIMED AS A MUSICAL GENIUS, MILES DAVIS WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL MUSICIANS IN THE WORLD. HERE, MILES SPEAKS OUT ABOUT HIS EXTRAORDINARY LIFE.
Miles: The Autobiography, like Miles himself, holds nothing back. He speaks frankly and openly about his drug problem and how he overcame it. He condemns the racism he encountered in the music business and in American society generally. And he discusses the women in his life. But above all, Miles talks about music and musicians, including the legends he has played with over the years: Bird, Dizzy, Monk, Trane, Mingus, and many others.
The man who gave us some of the most exciting music of the twentieth century here gives us a compelling and fascinating autobiography, featuring a concise discography and thirty-two pages of photographs. Top to learn more
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Miles Ahead: A No-Holds Barred Autobiography
This is a superb book, but not for the easily offended. Miles' autobiography reveals a hardworking, supremely talented musician who challenged himself continually as he, time after time, reinvented jazz. Yet Miles Davis is full of contradictions; the victim of racism; he rails, at times, against whites, yet plays with and respects them. His attitudes and behavior toward women can be appalling, yet he had a tender, generous side, and admits (and also denies) his faults. As far as I can tell, Miles is Miles in this book, and if there are contradictions in his story, it's because there are contradictions in the man.Some people have complained that there is not enough analysis of his music in the book, but your ears will tell you more than any technical explanation. He talks of his early days at Juilliard, skipping the school to play with Bird and others in New York, his courageous "cold turkey" quitting of heroin, his abuse by police, and the various bands and movements...
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For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles is one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. The subject of several biographies, now Miles speaks out himself about his extraordinary life.
Miles: The Autobiography, like Miles himself, holds nothing back. For the first time Miles talks about his five-year silence. He speaks frankly and openly about his drug problem and how he overcame it. He condemns the racism he has encountered in the music business and in American society generally. And he discusses the women in his life. But above all, Miles talks about music and musicians, including the legends he has played with over the years: Bird, Dizzy, Monk, Trane, Mingus, and many others.
The man who has given us some of the most exciting music of the past few decades has now given us a compelling and fascinating autobiography, featuring a concise discography and thirty-two pages of photographs. Top to learn more
The End of Idolatry
Miles Davis' autobiography is absorbing reading and should be read by anybody interested in the history of Jazz or the social history of Davis' era. That said, it will be a disappointment to anybody who is really awed by Davis.I initially read this book early in college when I was first getting into modal jazz, and I loved hearing about the scene and the times, and hearing about in Mile's voice. But I was crestfallen over how unrepentant he was and the overall defensive agenda he has, using his autobiography mainly as a forum to list and dispute things that have been said about him over the years. For example, I was reading about how he used and abused women and I kept waiting to hear him say how ashamed he is looking back, or how bad he felt, or how he tried to rectify the situation. I thought it was coming anytime, a chapter, a paragraph, or even a sentence. But it doesn't happen.My initial reading of Miles was right around the time I read Flashbacks,...
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An important work of history and honest soul searching
Miles Davis, with all his faults, flaws and laughable quirks, was still one of the most important musicians of the twentieth century. It takes a book like this where he leaves no stone unturned to make clear the debt we all owe him and his contemporaries, as well as the restless spirit that lead him beyond what he helped to establish as modern jazz. In many ways he shows himself to be, ironically, the archetypal and sterotypical artist simultaneously. Yet his telling of the profound friendships he had with Max Roach and Coltrane, his deep awe and respect but dispassionate eye for the genius and addictions of Charlie Parker, the loves of his life- and what he put them through, and his brutal, courageous hoonesty in general, gives us a gift of his haunting humanity. But above all, this about the music. His own telling of his style, the true creators of the form in total and the actual environment where it was produced, and how he created so many styles of his own is...
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Superb study of American culture emerging into modernity
Orvell's THE REAL THING is the sort of book I wish I'd written. It is entertaining, wide-ranging across many cultural genres, and offers a coherent and stimulating account of American culture in the late 29th and early 20th centuries. It is especially acute on such complex and difficult-to-classify cultural phenomena as the rise of department stores and mass-produced consumer goods, the "aestheticizing" photographs of the machine-age city (and even of machine parts themselves) by such artists as Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand. An outstanding study I return to again and again.
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This is a perceptive study of the relationship between technology and culture. Orvell discusses Whitman and his world, then considers material culture, photography, and literature. Among the cultural figures discussed are writers Henry James, John Dos Passos, and James Agee; photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Margaret Bourke-White; and architect-designers Gustav Stickley and Frank Lloyd Wright. A witty essay on the significance of junk in the 1930s concludes the book. Top to learn more
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Note that you will have to get to the origin city on your own or by spending Avios and for some of the longer itineraries, you will have to either buy a 1-way cash ticket back or use miles on United or American Airlines for a 1-way award ticket... Dublin or Shanon to Boston for 12,500 Avios & ~$90 OR Dublin or Shannon back to New York or Chicago for 20,000 Avios & ~$90 & Orlando for 25,000 Avios You can use this itinery to visit any city in Europe (Paris in the above example) by connecting... Of course, you’ll have to get back to the US from Hong Kong, but you’re better off using 32,500 United or 35,000 American Airline miles to get back to the US from Hong Kong to avoid paying fuel surcharges if you use your Avios points. Of course, you’ll have to get back to the US from Hong Kong, but you’re better off using 32,500 United or 35,000 American Airline miles to get back to the US from Hong Kong to avoid paying fuel surcharges if you use your Avios points. However, you will have to buy a ticket from that European city (Paris in the above example) back to Dublin or Shannon to return to the US. This costs only 48,000 Membership Rewards points in coach or 96,000 Membership Rewards points in Business... That’s only 60,000 Membership Reward points in coach and 120,000 Membership Rewards points in Business Class using the 50% transfer bonus. Beijing to Hong Kong for 10,000 Avios and $46 on Cathay Pacific In this example, you travel to Brazil, and have stop overs in London, Beijing and Hong Kong.
@Brandon - The terms on the United Explorer say that you can’t get both the bonus on the Continental card and on the United Explorer, but I’ve read accounts of folks who’ve got both bonuses. @Nick Handy - The terms say (bolding mine): “As a MileagePlus Club Card member, you and your eligible travel companion have unlimited access to more than 50 United Club locations , as well as access to Participating Star Alliance® affiliated... ” You do get access to US air lounges if you’re not flying on US Air , but have to be flying on a Star Alliance flight to get access to the international Star Alliance lounges. @jim – You won’t lose the miles if they are in your United account and you close the card a few months before your annual fee is due.
So with this card you would essentially be paying $150 for 100,000 miles (instead of $95 and a $20,000 spend). You get 50,000 Avios for your first year and 50,000 for your second.
5 miles per dollar spent on all spend (2 miles per dollar on United spend) Hyatt Platinum status, comes with the Hyatt Visa and means free internet, 2pm late checkout, and usually avoids the room over the HVAC This card does not offer elite... A week or so ago I posted on Milepoint that Chase would be introducing a new premium version of their United co-branded credit card which bundles lounge access, the unique selling proposition of the card would be earning 1. >It’s a better card for earning United miles only than anything else on the market, including Chase Sapphire Preferred. It’s a better card for earning United miles only than anything else on the market, including Chase Sapphire Preferred. You can no longer get this old Ink Bold, but this is still the card to beat for earning United miles on general spend. I wouldn’t touch it if I were going to put less than $40,000 on the card in a year, that’s 20,000 extra United miles being purchased at 2 cents apiece (leaving the value of other benefits aside). The card comes with a $395 annual fee, so not a bad deal for someone who was going to buy United Club membership but not attractive otherwise. 07 flexible points via Chase Sapphire (Sapphire Preferred is still a better deal on bonused categories, including United spend where it pays 2. 5 United miles vs. 1. That is a lot, but then again to justify the annual fee you probably have to be a big spender on this new United card, too (unless you were going to get lounge access). I’m still not sure this card wins out, but it’s good earn for people already buying lounge access. 5 miles per dollar on all spend.
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26, 2012 photo, Yoshiko Ota displays bottled water she bought at a local shop for daily use at her house in Fukushima, Japan, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012. Ota keeps her windows shut. She never hangs her laundry outdoors. Fearful of birth defects,
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