Miles: The Companion Guide to the Miles Davis Autobiography
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Miles - Marc Antomattei
Published by Marc Antomattei Press™
marcantomatteiproductions@gmail.com
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Reprint edition with correction of misprints copyright © 2016
Copyright © 2011 by Marc Antomattei
All rights reserved
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in whole or in part in any form.
Designed & written by Marc Antomattei
Cover photograph by Gilles Larrain
Photos by Marc Antomattei
DJ photograph by Steven Chul Kim
The Miles Davis quotes featured on pages 4, 32, 41, 58, 59 and 60
are reprinted with the permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc., from
MILES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe.
Copyright © 1989 by Miles Davis.
All rights reserved.
ISBN-13: 978-0-9846391-0-6 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-9846391-1-3 (ePUB E-Book)
ISBN-13: 978-0-9846391-2-0 (PDF E-Book)
ISBN-13: 978-0-9846391-3-7 Hardcover Limited Edition)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION ON HOW THIS BOOK CAME TO BE
MILES & ME: WHY IM A FAN
HOW TO READ AND USE THIS BOOK
THE MILES DAVIS COMPANION GUIDE
MILES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY ANNOTATED TUNES & ALBUM LISTING
MILES: THE SUMMARY OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX
MILES DAVIS AUDIO INTERVIEWS
MILES DAVIS VIDEO INTERVIEWS
MILES ON DVD
BUYERS GUIDE: MILES DAVIS COLLECTORS CD APPRAISAL
CONCERT CDS
OWN MILES DAVIS CDS ON A BUDGET (FOR THE SPENDING CONSCIENCE)
OWN MILES DAVIS HIGHEST QUALITY CDS: NO BUDGET (MONEY ISN’T AN ISSUE FOR YOU)
BLU-SPEC CD
SACD
HYBRID SACD
SACD/SHM HYBRID
SHM-CD
DVD AUDIO
HQCD
HARSH REALITIES: MILES DAVIS VS. WYNTON MARSALIS: A CRITICISM PIECE (UNPUBLISHED ARTICLE)
DJ MARC ANTOMATTEI’S TOP 10 BEST MILES DAVIS TUNES
DJ MARC ANTOMATTEI’S TOP 10 BEST MILES DAVIS ALBUMS
DJ MARC ANTOMATTEI’S TOP 10 BEST MILES DAVIS ALBUM COVERS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
STORE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
INTRODUCTION ON HOW THIS BOOK CAME TO BE
The idea struck me to make this book when I was reading Miles Davis’ autobiography for the first time. Originally I thought, How cool would it be if there were a soundtrack to accompany the book?
Knowing though that the world has cats and dogs in it that wont get along nicely (speaking of the various labels Miles has worked for), the chances of there being an official release of something like that is extremely slim; so that idea was out the window. Then after reading a bit more is when I came upon another ingenious idea.
Miles’ massive four hundred plus page autobiography is part discography in my opinion because he references so many tunes and albums he and others made. He also goes into further detail by providing recording dates and mentioning who accompanied him on those dates. I was about one-third done with reading the book when I read what Miles had to say about an alto saxophone player by the name of Jackie McLean. Miles said Jackie could play his ass off’ but he also said Jackie always fucked up when playing a tune called
Yesterdays. Miles said
He never played it right" and had to tell Jackie to sit out on playing during the recording session.
I for one had never heard the tune Yesterdays
before and I wanted to know what it sounded like so that I could try to further understand how difficult it must have been for Jackie to play and why Miles was so upset. I actually would like to hear every single tune Miles references in his autobiography. So from reading that part in particular is when the idea struck me to make an annotated guide citing all the tunes in the autobiography in the order that Miles mentions them. The purpose of this is so that the reader, myself included, can easily find the album in our collections that the tune spoken of appears on. And if we (us Miles Davis fanatics) dont have the tune, should we decide to, we could buy the single .mp3 or .wav file from a source like Amazon or iTunes fairly easily, or for completest (like myself) we can just buy the entire album it appears on. I thought it would simply be a great idea to simultaneously listen to the tune spoken of in the book as I am reading it.
This is the official soundtrack to Miles Davis’ life. For those real Miles Davis aficionados, the ideal thing to do would be to go through this guide which I have made and compile a custom soundtrack to the autobiography. I can tell you it’s possible but it will be expensive. Oh why can’t the labels get along just this once to give us something like this officially though? Oh well, I guess it’s always nice to dream.
MILES & ME - WHY I’M A FAN
When I was a teenager and my brother Miguel was a young adult we got turned on to jazz music (and it was the start of a beautiful relationship between us and the music). When we frequented the 1,200,000 square foot shopping mall Opry Mills
in Nashville, Tennessee we always stopped by (at the time) Tower Records. They had a fine jazz section in their massive store and we would spend hours upon hours delving into the music and usually took something home with us that night.
For jazz music I have always been a sucker for the trumpet and it’s flare. Before I ever knew or really could conceive just how big Miles Davis was in the jazz world (by listeners, by critics, by sales) he was at the top of my list for favorites. Today he remains my favorite jazz musician of all-time and I place him within my top four geniuses of music along with Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and John Williams.
Now I am 28 (as of Jan. 2011) and my life has been dedicated a lotto music. I am a professional DJ residing in Tokyo, Japan, a connoisseur of music. Given the right type of party that I am hired for I am sure to be found playing Miles Davis tunes spanning many different eras for 1) because it sounds great! 2) Because I always am trying to spread the gospel and educate people about his music.
I am in fact an official