All unattributed quotations are from personal interviews with the author.
Chapter 1: Miles Dewey Davis III
1 Leonard Feather, From Satchmo to Miles, Stein and Day, 1972, p. 230.
2 Marc Crawford, ‘Miles Davis: Evil Genius of Jazz’, Ebony, January 1961.
3 Ibid.
4 Nat Hentoff, ‘Miles Davis – Last Trump’, Esquire, March 1959.
5 Melody Maker, 9 January 1971.
6 Interview, Playboy, September 1962.
7 Down Beat, 6 March 1958.
8 Ibid.
9 Hentoff, Esquire, March 1959.
10 Stephen Davis, ‘Miles Davis: An Exclusive Interview’, The Real Paper, 21 March 1973.
11 Down Beat, 6 March 1958.
12 Marc Crawford, Ebony, January 1961.
13 Playboy, September 1962.
14 From Satchmo to Miles, p. 231.
15 Sy Johnson, ‘Sparring with Miles Davis’, Changes, 1974, p. 32.
16 The Real Paper, 21 March 1973.
17 Down Beat, 2 July 1964.
18 Down Beat, 6 March 1958.
19 The Real Paper, 21 March 1973.
20 From Satchmo to Miles, p. 231.
21 Encore, 21/28 July 1975.
22 Don Demichael, Rolling Stone, 13 December 1969.
23 Down Beat, 2 July 1964.
24 Down Beat, 6 March 1958.
25 Ibid.
26 Melody Maker, 4 September 1954.
27 International Musician, November 1972.
Chapter 2: Bird Land
1 Down Beat, 6 March 1958.
2 Ibid.
3 Changes, 1974, p. 32.
4 The Real Paper, 21 March 1973.
5 Esquire, March 1959.
6 Down Beat, 6 April 1967.
7 Ibid.
8 Esquire, March 1959.
9 Ira Gitler, Jazz Masters of the 40s, Macmillan, 1966, p. 208.
10 Down Beat, 22 April 1946.
11 Ross Russell, Bird Lives! Quartet Books, 1973, pp. 208–9.
12 Down Beat, 6 April 1967.
13 Esquire, March 1959.
14 Down Beat, 13 June 1968.
15 The Real Paper, 21 March 1973.
16 Esquire, March 1959.
17 Ibid.
18 Ibid.
19 Wilfrid Mellers, Music in a New Found Land, Barrie and Rockliff, 1964, p. 341.
20 Down Beat, 16 February 1961.
21 Bird Lives!, p. 267.
22 Jazz Masters of the 40s, p. 34.
23 Gilbert Millsteen, ‘Jazz Makes It Up the River’, New York Times Magazine, 1958.
Chapter 3: The Birth of the Cool
1 Playboy, September 1962.
2 Down Beat, 2 July 1964.
3 Music in a New Found Land, p. 355.
4 Sleeve note.
5 Sleeve note.
6 Nat Hentoff, The World of Jazz, Ridge Press Inc., 1976, pp. 103–5.
7 Down Beat, 2 July 1964.
8 Ibid.
9 Sleeve note.
10 Mike Zwerin, ‘Miles Davis: A Most Curious Friendship’, Down Beat, 10 March 1966.
11 Sleeve note.
12 Down Beat, 2 July 1964.
13 Down Beat, 23 March 1951.
14 Down Beat, 6 April 1967.
Chapter 4: Cold Turkey
1 Nat Hentoff, The Jazz Life, Panther Books, 1964, p. 77.
2 Down Beat, 6 March 1958.
3 Down Beat, 18 July 1974.
4 Down Beat, 23 March 1951.
5 Melody Maker, 30 September 1950.
6 Babs Gonzales, Movin’ on Down de Line, Expubidence Publishing Corp., 1975, pp. 63–4.
7 Jazz Masters of the 50s, p. 70.
8 The Jazz Life, p. 77.
9 Ibid.
10 From Satchmo to Miles, p. 236.
11 The Jazz Life, p. 77.
12 Melody Maker, 23 February 1952.
13 Jazz Masters of the 40s, p. 50.
14 Sleeve note.
15 Ebony, January 1961.
16 Down Beat, 18 July 1974.
17 Ebony, January 1961.
18 Ibid.
Chapter 5: The First Great Quintet
1 Playboy, September 1962.
2 Esquire, March 1959.
3 Ibid.
4 Down Beat, 30 November 1955.
5 Nat Hentoff, ‘An Afternoon with Miles Davis’, Jazz Review, December 1958.
6 Ibid.
7 Ebony, January 1961.
8 Esquire, March 1959.
9 Jazz Masters of the 50s, p. 73.
10 Down Beat, 21 September 1955.
11 Ibid.
12 Esquire, March 1959.
13 Down Beat, 2 July 1964.
14 Sleeve note.
15 The World of Jazz, p. 136.
16 The Jazz Life, p. 181.
Chapter 6: Miles Ahead
1 Playboy, September 1962.
2 The Jazz Life, p. 77.
3 Down Beat, 29 September 1960.
4 Jazz Masters of the 50s, p. 76.
5 The Jazz Life, pp. 179–80.
6 The Jazz Review, December 1958.
7 Ibid.
8 Sleeve note.
9 Alun Morgan, ‘Miles Davis: Miles Ahead’, These Jazzmen of Our Time, ed. Raymond Horricks, Jazz Book Club, 1960, p. 49.
10 J. C. Thomas, Chasin’ the Trane, Da Capo, 1975, p. 81.
11 Ibid., p. 69.
12 Melody Maker, 16 March 1957.
13 André Malraux, L’Espoir, Grove Press, p. 36.
14 Down Beat, 2 July 1964.
15 Down Beat, 16 February 1961.
16 Quoted by Charles Fox, These Jazzmen of Our Time, p. 96.
17 Jazz Monthly, February 1960.
18 New York Times, 12 January 1958.
19 Ibid.
20 Jazz Monthly, February 1960.
Chapter 7: The First Great Sextet
1 Ebony, January 1961.
2 Esquire, March 1959.
3 Time, 20 January 1958.
4 Life International, 11 August 1958.
5 Down Beat, 2 July 1964.
6 Cannonball Adderley, ‘Paying Dues: The Education of a Combo Leader’, Jazz Panorama, ed. Martin Williams, Cromwell-Collier Press, 1962, pp. 260–61.
7 Mike Zwerin, ‘Miles Davis – A Most Curious Friendship’, Down Beat, 10 March 1966.
8 Jazz Hot, June 1960.
9 ‘30 Ans de Cinema’, Jazz Magazine, May 1961.
10 The Jazz Review, January 1958.
11 Down Beat, 29 September 1960.
12 Jazz Panorama, pp. 261–2.
13 Esquire, March 1959.
14 The Jazz Life, p. 181.
15 Ibid., p. 43.
16 Sleeve note.
17 Playboy, September 1962.
18 Ebony, January 1961.
19 Music in a New Found Land, p. 367.
Chapter 8: Porgy and Bess
1 Fontana, June 1959.
2 Jazz Review, December 1958.
3 Jazz Panorama, p. 262.
4 Jazz Review, December 1958.
5 Music in a New Found Land, p. 367.
6 Sleeve note.
7 Kenneth Tynan, ‘Miles Apart’, Holiday, February 1963.
8 Down Beat, 10 March 1966.
9 Holiday, February 1963.
10 Fontana, June 1959.
11 Ibid.
12 Richard Williams, ‘Sketches of Gil’, Melody Maker, 4 March 1978.
Chapter 9: Is It Jazz?
1 Ebony, January 1961.
2 Jazz Review, December 1958.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Sleeve note.
8 San Francisco Sunday Chronicle, 7 June 1959.
9 Ibid.
10 Sleeve note.
11 Brian Priestley, ‘Cleanhead’s Comeback’, Melody Maker, 3 June 1972.
12 Down Beat, 6 March 1968.
13 Jack O’Brien says: ‘Bob Herridge Does It Again!’ New York Journal-American, 22 July 1960.
14 Melody Maker, 12 September 1959.
15 Melody Maker, 5 September 1959.
16 Down Beat, 18 February 1960.
17 Melody Maker, 24 October 1959.
18 Nat Hentoff, Hi Fi Review, February 1960.
19 Sleeve note.
20 Ibid.
21 Down Beat, 27 October 1960.
22 Ibid.
23 Leonard Feather, ‘Jazz Beat’, New York Post, 26 April 1964.
24 Down Beat, 27 October 1960.
25 Jazz News, 15 October 1960.
26 New York Times, 11 September 1960.
27 Barbara J. Gardner, ‘The Enigma of Miles Davis’, Down Beat, 7 January 1960.
Chapter 10: After Coltrane
1 Ebony, January 1961.
2 Playboy, September 1962.
3 ‘Jazzmen Not Vaudevillians’, New York Journal-American, 26 March 1960.
4 ‘Pourquoi Si Méchant, Miles?’, Jazz Magazine, October 1960.
5 The Jazz Life, p. 196.
6 Chasin’ the Trane, p. 109.
7 San Francisco Sunday Chronicle, 6 March 1960.
8 Quoted by Art Farmer, Melody Maker, 25 March 1960.
9 Chasin’ the Trane, p. 109.
10 Paul Ackerman, ‘Davis Sets Vanguard Fans Jumping’, Billboard, 8 August 1960.
11 Leonard Feather, ‘The Real Miles Davis’, Melody Maker, 17 September 1960.
12 Jazz Monthly, December 1960.
13 New York Post, 16 October 1960.
14 Playboy, September 1962.
15 Down Beat, 16 February 1961.
16 Sleeve note.
17 Playboy, September 1962.
18 Sleeve note.
19 Ebony, January 1961.
20 New York Times, 29 May 1961.
21 Bill Coss, Down Beat, 6 July 1961.
22 George T. Simon, New York Herald Tribune, 20 May 1961.
23 New York Post, 21 May 1961.
24 Ibid.
25 Ibid.
Chapter 11: In and Out of the Doldrums
1 Playboy, September 1962.
2 Melody Maker, 18 March 1961.
3 Down Beat, 17 August 1961.
4 Ibid., 20 July 1961.
5 Ibid., 25 April 1963.
6 Ibid., 21 October 1963.
7 Sleeve note.
8 Leonard Feather, ‘The Modulated World of Gil Evans’, Down Beat, 23 February 1967.
9 Playboy, September 1962.
10 Down Beat, 10 September 1964.
11 Down Beat, 14 July 1977.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid.
14 Melody Maker, 1 February 1964.
15 Down Beat, 18 June 1964.
16 Ibid.
Chapter 12: Miles in the Sky
1 Hollie I. West, ‘Black Tune’, Washington Post, 13 March 1969.
2 Clive Davis, Clive: Inside the Record Business, William Morrow, 1974.
3 Louisville Times, 9 December 1967.
4 Down Beat, 13 June 1968.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid., 23 February 1967.
7 Ibid., 13 June 1968.
8 Ibid., 21 October 1965.
9 Ibid., 13 June 1968.
10 Melody Maker, 20 April 1968.
11 Sleeve note.
12 From Satchmo to Miles, p. 242.
13 Clive: Inside the Record Business, p. 260.
14 Melody Maker, 20 January 1973.
15 Jet, August 1966.
16 Clive: Inside the Record Business, p. 260.
17 Washington Post, 13 March 1969.
Chapter 13: Play What’s Not There!
1 Rolling Stone, 13 December 1969.
2 Playboy, September 1962.
3 Down Beat, 18 June 1974.
4 Ibid., 14 November 1968.
5 Melody Maker, 4 March 1978.
6 Washington Post, 13 March 1969.
7 New Musical Express, 1 February 1975.
8 Ibid., 8 February 1975.
9 Ibid., 1 February 1975.
10 Washington Post, 13 March 1969.
11 Time Out, The Times Union, 28 February 1969.
Chapter 14: Miles Runs the Voodoo Down
1 Newsweek, 23 March 1970.
2 Washington Post, 13 March 1969.
3 Ibid.
4 Time Out, The Times Union, 28 February 1969.
5 Jazz Review, December 1958.
6 Down Beat, 3 September 1970.
7 Newsweek, 23 March 1970.
8 Village Voice, 31 July 1969.
9 Ibid.
10 Time Out, The Times Union, 28 February 1969.
11 Ibid.
12 Melody Maker, 17 January 1970.
13 Larry Kart, Down Beat, 7 August 1969.
Chapter 15: Jazz into rock Will Go
1 Rolling Stone, 13 December 1969.
2 Los Angeles Times Calendar.
3 From Satchmo to Miles, pp. 246–7.
4 ZygoteIIZygote, 12 August 1970.
5 Afrostar, 6 November 1969.
6 New York Post, 6 January 1970.
7 Newsweek, 23 March 1970.
8 Down Beat, 23 July 1970.
9 From Satchmo to Miles, p. 240.
10 Newsweek, 23 March 1970.
11 Al Aronowitz, ‘Go’ Magazine, June 1970.
12 Ibid.
13 San Francisco Chronicle, 13 April 1970.
14 ZygoteIIZygote, 12 August 1970.
15 New York Times, 18 July 1970.
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid.
18 Sunday Denver Post, 14 June 1970.
19 ZygoteIIZygote, 12 August 1970.
20 Down Beat, 4 March 1971.
21 New York Times, 18 July 1970.
22 ZygoteIIZygote, 12 August 1970.
Chapter 16: Live-Evil
1 New York Post, 3 July 1972.
2 Melody Maker, 9 January 1971.
3 The Real Paper, 21 March 1973.
4 Interview with Brian Priestley, Down Beat, 14 March 1974.
5 Essence, March 1971.
6 Melody Maker, 9 January 1971.
7 Ibid., 31 July 1971.
8 New York Post, 23 July 1971.
9 Melody Maker, 31 July 1971.
10 Stereo – Das Deutsche Hi-Fi und Musik Magazin, Number 17/75.
11 Down Beat, 18 July 1974.
12 The Herald, 7 April 1972.
13 New York Post, 3 July 1972.
14 Encore, 21/28 July 1975.
15 Ibid.
16 Down Beat, November 1972.
17 Melody Maker, 20 January 1973.
18 The Real Paper, 21 March 1973.
Chapter 17: Manhattan Jungle Symphony
1 Melody Maker, 20 January 1973.
2 Sounds, 19 March 1973.
3 Down Beat, op. cit.
4 Eugene Chadbourne, The Herald
5 Quoted in Hentoff’s The World of Jazz, pp. 135–6.
6 The Real Paper, 21 March 1973.
7 Ibid.
8 From Satchmo to Miles, p. 255.
9 The Real Paper, 21 March 1973.
10 Stereo-Das Deutsche Hi-Fi und Musik Magazin, Number 17/75.
11 The Real Paper, 21 March 1973.
12 From Satchmo to Miles, p. 246.
13 Encore, 21/28 July 1975.
14 Gary Giddins, New York Magazine, 13 September 1974.
15 Changes, 1974.
16 Ibid.
17 Melody Maker, 7 September 1974.
18 Rolling Stone, 11 March 1976.
19 Ibid.
20 Ibid.
Chapter 18: The Silent Years, 1976–80
1 Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe, Miles: The Autobiography, Simon and Schuster, New York; Macmillan, London, 1989, p. 336.
2 Conrad Silvert, ‘Miles Davis Brews Up a Recovery’, Rolling Stone, 11 March 1976.
3 Interview with T. M. Stevens, in Bass Player, June 1994.
4 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 340.
5 Leonard Feather, ‘Miles Davis’s Miraculous Recovery from Stroke’, Ebony, December 1982.
Chapter 19: A Tentative New Beginning
1 Cheryl McCall, ‘Miles Davis’, Musician, Player and Listener 41, March 1982.
2 J. B. Leishman (trans.), Rilke: Selected Poems, Penguin Books, 1964, p. 21.
3 Howard Mandel, ‘Miles Davis’s New Direction is a Family Affair’, Down Beat, September 1980.
4 Brian Case, ‘Full Blown 20/20 Magazine, No. 12, March 1990.
5 Jack Chambers, Milestones II, The Music and Times of Miles Davis Since 1960, p. 301.
6 Mandel, Down Beat, September 1980.
7 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 344.
8 Ibid.
9 McCall, Musician, Player and Listener, March 1982.
10 Ibid.
11 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 345.
12 Ibid.
13 Sam Freedman, ‘Marcus Miller: The Thumbslinger–Bassist for Hire’, Down Beat, April 1983.
14 Nick Coleman, ‘A Little Bit of Slap and Tickle’, Independent, 14 April 1995.
15 Gen Santoro, ‘Miles Davis the Enabler Part II’, Down Beat, November 1988.
16 McCall, Musician, Player and Listener, March 1982.
17 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 346.
18 Feather, Ebony, December 1982.
19 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 346.
20 Feather, Ebony, December 1982.
21 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 347.
22 Richard Williams, ‘On Top of All the Beat’, The Times, 28 April 1983.
23 Ibid.
24 McCall, Musician, Player and Listener, March 1982.
25 Down Beat, 22 April 1946.
26 McCall, Musician, Player and Listener, March 1982.
27 Ibid. p. 42.
28 Sam Freedman, Down Beat, April 1983.
29 Ibid.
30 Williams, The Times, 28 April 1983.
31 Feather, Ebony, December 1982.
32 McCall, Musician, Player and Listener, March 1982.
33 Ibid., p. 42.
34 Ibid., p. 38.
35 Ibid., p. 40.
36 Ibid.
37 Feather, Ebony, December 1982.
38 Pawel Brodowski and Janusz Szprot, ‘Miles Speaks’, Jazz Forum 85, 1983.
39 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 349.
40 Milestones II, p. 334.
41 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 348.
42 Ibid.
43 McCall, Musician, Player and Listener, March 1982.
44 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 348.
45 Gary Giddins, ‘Miles’ Wiles’, Village Voice, 5–11 August 1981.
Chapter 20: Crisis and Rebirth
1 McCall, Musician, Player and Listener, March 1982.
2 Feather, Ebony, December 1982.
3 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 350.
4 Feather, Ebony, December 1982.
5 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 353.
6 Feather, Ebony, December 1982.
7 David Breskin, ‘Searching for Miles: Theme and Variations on the Life of a Trumpeter’, Rolling Stone 405, 29 September 1983.
8 Milestones II, p. 354.
9 Tomasz Szachowski, ‘Jazz Jamboree 1983’, Jazz Forum 85, 1983.
10 Pawel Brodowski, letter to the author, 14 November 1996.
11 Jazz Forum 85, 1983.
12 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 358.
Chapter 21: Honours, Insults and Changes
1 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 364.
2 Howard Mandel, ‘Miles Davis’, Down Beat, December 1984.
3 Ibid.
4 Ebony, January 1961.
5 ‘Sketches of Miles’, Musician, December 1991, p. 48.
6 W. B. Yeats, Collected Poems, Macmillan London, 1958, p. 217.
7 Pawel Brodowski and Janusz Szprot, Jazz Forum 85, 1983.
8 Ian Macintyre, The Expense of Glory: A Life of John Reith, London: HarperCollins, 1993.
9 Jan Lohmann, The Sound of Miles Davis: The Discography 1945–1991, Jazz Media, Copenhagen, Denmark.
10 Ibid.
11 Quoted by Gene Lees in ‘Jazz Black and White Part II’, Jazzletter Vol. 12, No. 11, November 1993.
12 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 360.
13 Gene Lees, Jazzletter, November 1993.
14 Bill Milkowski, ‘Politics and the Miles Factor’, Down Beat, April 1992.
15 Nick Kent, ‘Prince of Darkness’, The Face 78, October 1986, pp. 21–2.
16 ‘Miles Davis: A Life in Four Scenes’, Musician, December 1991, p. 58.
17 Nick Kent, The Face, October 1986.
18 Musician, December 1991, p. 62.
19 McCall, Musician, Player and Listener, March 1982.
20 The Sound of Miles Davis.
21 Ibid.
22 Ibid.
Chapter 22: Tutu
1 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 383.
2 Ted Drozdowski, ‘Doin’ the Rat Dance’, Musician 127, May 1989.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Gene Santoro, ‘Miles Davis the Enabler Part II’, Down Beat, November 1988.
6 Musician, May 1989.
7 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 371.
8 Charles Shaar Murray, ‘Miles Davis: Cat Who Walks by Himself’, Observer in London 40, 18 June 1989.
9 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 372.
10 Bill Milkowski, ‘Marcus Miller: Miles’s Man in the Studio’, Down Beat, February 1987.
11 Chris Jisin, ‘Marcus Miller’, Bass Player, October 1992, p. 46.
12 Mike Zwerin, ‘Top Records of the Decade’, International Herald Tribune, 14 November 1989.
13 Mark Dery and Bob Doerschuk, ‘Miles Davis: His Keyboards Present’, Keyboard, October 1987.
14 Bob Doerschuk, ‘Miles Davis: The Picasso of Invisible Art’, Keyboard, October 1987.
15 Dery and Doerschuk, Keyboard, October 1987.
16 Gary Giddins, ‘Miles Davis Superstar’, Village Voice, special jazz supplement ‘Miles Davis at 60’, August 1986.
17 Ibid.
18 The Sound of Miles Davis
19 Ibid.
20 Dery and Doerschuk, Keyboard, October 1987.
21 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 379.
22 Ibid, p. 381.
23 Ibid.
24 Ibid., p. 382.
25 Laurence Bergreen, Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life, HarperCollins, 1997, p. 487.
26 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 384.
27 Halliwell’s Film Guide, eleventh edition, HarperCollins, 1995.
28 Musician 127, May 1989.
29 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 281.
30 Ibid., p. 383.
31 Ibid.
32 Ibid., p. 384.
33 Ibid., p. 385.
34 Ibid.
35 The Sound of Miles Davis, p. 291.
Chapter 23: Amandla
1 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 397.
2 Ibid., p. 385.
3 Quincy Troupe lecture, USA, December 1991.
4 Ibid.
5 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 387.
6 The Sound of Miles Davis, p. 302.
7 Mike Zwerin, ‘Rio Women and Colorful Squares by Miles Davis the Painter’, International Herald Tribune, 11 July 1988.
8 Ibid.
9 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 389.
10 Zwerin, International Herald Tribune, 11 July 1988.
11 Ibid.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid.
15 Murray, Observer in London 40, 18 June 1989.
16 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 389.
17 Philip Watson, ‘Miles Davis, Cardiff St David’s Hall’, Wired 61, June 1989.
18 Ibid.
19 The Sound of Miles Davis, p. 315.
20 The Art of Miles Davis (Davis and Gutterman), Prentice Hall, 1991, p. 10.
21 Murray, Observer in London 40, 18 June 1989.
22 Ibid.
23 Ibid.
24 Ibid.
25 The Art of Miles Davis p. 10
26 Ted Drodzowski, ‘Doin’ the Rat Dance’, Musician 127, May 1989.
27 Peter Watrous, ‘Miles Davis: Rebel without a Pause’, Musician 127, May 1989.
28 Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading, Faber, 1961.
29 Watrous, Musician 127, May 1989.
30 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 389.
31 Josef Woodward, ‘Miles Smiles: The Prince of Darkness Lightens Up and Talks About Life, Music and Painting’, Jazziz, September 1989.
32 Murray, Observer in London 40, 18 June 1989.
33 Howard Mandel, ‘Kenny Garrett: Mission Possible’, Down Beat, September 1997.
Chapter 24: The Final Chapter
1 Francis Mormande, ‘Rencontre à New York avec la Trompettiste Americain’, Le Monde, June 1991, Supplements Arts-Spectacles (author’s translation).
2 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 411.
3 Nicolette Jones, ‘Book News First Report’, Bookseller, 16 June 1989.
4 Miles: The Autobiography, p. 379.
5 Ibid., p. 409.
6 Ibid., p. 412.
7 Mike Zwerin, ‘From Jazz to Pop to Reggae to Jazz’, International Herald Tribune, 11 July 1989.
8 Miles in Paris, Warner Music Vision, 9031–71550-3.
9 Halliwell’s Film Guide, p. 544.
10 ‘Sketches of Miles’, Guardian, 3 October 1991.
11 ‘Remembering Miles’, Rolling Stone, 14 November 1991.
12 The Art of Miles Davis.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid.
15 Ibid.
16 Richard Williams, Guardian, 27 October 1995.
17 ‘Sketches of Miles’, Guardian, 3 October 1991.
18 James T. Jones IV, ‘Davis Took Jazz to New Frontiers and Miles Beyond’, USA Today, 30 September 1991.
19 Gordon Meltzer, sleeve note, Doo-Bop, Warner Bros 7599–26938-2.
20 Leonard Feather, sleeve note, Miles Davis & Quincy Jones Live at Montreux, Warner Bros 9362–45221-2.
21 Bill Milkowski, ‘Miles Plays Gil at Montreux’, Down Beat, October 1991.
22 Ibid.
23 Ibid.
24 Ibid.
25 Ibid.
26 ‘Sketches of Miles’, Musician, December 1991.
27 ‘Sketches of Miles’, Guardian, 3 October 1991.
28 ‘Sketches of Miles’, Musician, December 1991.
29 Milkowski, Down Beat, October 1991.
30 Ibid.
31 Ibid.
32 Feather, sleeve note.
33 Bret Primack, ‘Remembering Miles’, Jazz Times, February 1992, Vol. 22/No. 1.
34 New York Times, 29 September 1991.
35 Milkowski, Down Beat, October 1991.
36 Meltzer, sleeve note.
37 Richard Williams, ‘The Man in the Green Shirt’, Independent on Sunday Review, 6 October 1991.
38 Dave Liebman, liner note, Dark Magus, Sony Columbia 1997.
39 Bill Milkowski, ‘Politics and the Miles Factor’, Down Beat, April 1992.
40 Ibid.
41 Hank Bordowitz, ‘The Zen of Jazz Moves Keith Jarret’, Jazziz, April/May 1993.
42 Howard Mandel, ‘Sketches of Miles’, Down Beat, December 1991.
43 Ibid.
44 ‘Sketches of Miles’, Guardian, 3 October 1991.
45 ‘Remembering Miles’, Rolling Stone, 14 November 1991.
46 Ibid.
47 Bill Laswell talking to Kevin Martin, TOP magazine December/January 1997/98.