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Man in the Green Shirt Richard Williams

Man in the Green Shirt By Richard Williams

Man in the Green Shirt by Richard Williams


$36.99
Condition - Very Good
6 in stock

Summary

A biography of the influential jazz musician Miles Davis. This book takes the musician's green shirt as an emblem of his originality. It is illustrated throughout with photographs from many phases of his career. The author has previously written "Dylan: A Man Called Alias".

Man in the Green Shirt Summary

Man in the Green Shirt: Miles Davis by Richard Williams

It was the green shirt. Charlie Parker had the headlong genius, Thelonius Monk had the beatnik weirdness, and Charles Mingus had the rebel soul. But only Miles Davis had the green shirt. There it was on the cover of "Milestones", one of a handful of late-fifties albums that turned him from a gifted bebop musician into a figure of godlike potency. That shirt, the green shirt with the perfect button-down collar, symbolised the taste of the eternally elegant outsider and was as good an emblem as any of Miles Davis's intextinguishable need to be the coolest man on the planet. That he succeeded became clear when he died in September 1991, aged 65. For many people around the world, great musicians as well as anonymous fans, this really did seem like the day music died. Having survived the deaths of Armstrong, Ellington, Parker and Coltrane, the creative momentum of the century's most vital musical language suddenly seemed to be stalled by the departure of one man. Jazz people had followed him from Ivy League suits to silks and velvets, from the suave sophistication of "My Funny Valentine" to the wild funk of his electronic bands. This tells the story of a musician who transcended his idiom in much the same way that Picasso transcended painting. This story of the middle-class son of a St Louis dentist who became a teenage bebop apprentice on 52nd street and ended up a restless veteran who spent his final years collaborating with the likes of Prince and investigating the possibilities of rap, is the tale of an incomparably influential artist.

Additional information

GOR003912550
9780747515579
0747515573
Man in the Green Shirt: Miles Davis by Richard Williams
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
1993-10-28
192
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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