Gathering the 30most vital Miles Davis interviewson his music, his life, and his philosophythis collection reveals the jazz icon as a complex and contradictory man, secretive at times but extraordinarily revealing at others. Miles was not only a musical genius, but an enigma, and nowhere else was he so compelling, exasperating, and entertaining as he was in his interviews, which vary from polite to outrageous, from straight-ahead to contrarian. Many were conducted by leading journalists like Leonard Feather, Stephen Davis, Ben Sidran, Mike Zwerin, and Nat Hentoff; while others have never before beenprinted, and are newly transcribed from radio and television showsmaking thisthe definitive source for anyone wanting to really encounter the legend in print.