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Music and Media => The Jazz Circle => Topic started by: rockadanny on 2 Dec 2023, 07:27 pm
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Got this for my birthday a few months ago and finally cracked it open. Wow! Tremendous detail of Miles' life, as told by Miles. Super interesting. No holds barred. Gritty. A must read if you are at all interested in his life and what was happening around and during his performances and recordings. :thumb:
One caveat - if you find the word "mother#####r" too offensive, you won't be able to read even one page of this entire book. :shh: (Perhaps an exaggeration as I haven't tried to notice but might not be.)
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Yeah, I read it ages ago. All I remember is that I was impressed with his candor. If he didn't like someone or something, he certainly told you! :o :o :o (This was back in the day when there were a lot of fluff autobiographies.)
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I read it years ago. Good read.
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I got this book a number of years ago. I was reading it on a plane flight when I got to the part about what I'll call "the mirror incident". I started laughing really hard. Someone in another seat asked me what I was reading. I showed him the book and he gave me a big thumbs up.
I gave my copy to my (now late) neighbor, who was a jazz alto player. He loved it too, and gave it to a tenor player friend of his. I don't know where it ended up, but it's provided entertainment for lots of people I suspect.
It's a great read for jazz fans.