Literature and Arts B-82: Sayin' Something: Jazz as Sound, Sensibility, and Social Dialogue

13. Miles Davis

Balen, Noel. Miles Davis: L'Ange Noir. Paris: Mille et une Nuits; Arte, 2001.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML 419 .D39 B3 2001 

Carner, Gary, ed. The Miles Davis Companion: Four Decades of Commentary. New York: Schirmer Books, 1996.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 2233.15.55  

Carr, Ian. Miles Davis: A Biography. New York: Quill, 1982.
Location: Lamont Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML 419.D39 C35 1982  
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 2233.15.11  

---. Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1998.
Location: Lamont Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML 419.D39 C35 1998  
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 2233.15.11.2

Cerchiari, Luca. Miles Davis: Da Charlie Parker al Jazz Modale: Gli Anni Quaranta e Cinquanta.
Torino: Trauben, 1999.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML 419.D39 C47 1999  
Note: Discografia 1945-1959 di Jan Lohmann. Discography in English

---. Miles Davis: Dal Bebop al Jazz-rock (1945-1991). Milano: Oscar Mondadori, 2001.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML 419.D39 C48 2003  

Davis, Miles, with Quincy Troupe. Miles, the Autobiography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005.
Location: Loeb Music Library [Harvard Depository] ML419.D39 A3 2005

Freeman, Phil. Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis. San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2005.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML 419.D39 F74 2005

Gerber, Alain. Miles Davis: La Ballade du Honky-tonk Man. Paris: Fayard, 2003.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML 419.D39 G47 2003  

James, Michael. Miles Davis. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1961.
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: ML 419.D39 J35 x, 1961  

Jepsen, Jorgen Grunnet. A Discography of Miles Davis. Copenhagen NV, Karl Emil Knudsen, Dortheavej 39, 1969.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 2233.15.42  

Kahn, Ashley. Kind of Blue. New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 2000.
Location: Lamont Library; Call Number: Morse Music & Media ML419.D39 K3 2000x  
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 2233.15.43  

Kernfeld, Barry. "Davis, Miles." In The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed., edited by Barry Kernfeld. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/J114100 (accessed September 9, 2008).

Kerschbaumer, Franz. Miles Davis: Stilkrit. Untersuchungen zur Musikalischen Entwicklung Seines Personalstils. Graz: Akadem. Druck-u. Verlagsanst, 1978.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 177.907.5 (5)
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: ML 419.D39 K47 x

Liebman, Dave. Miles Davis and David Liebman: Jazz Connections. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 2233.15.50

Lohmann, Jan. The Sound of Miles Davis: The Discography: A Listing of Records and Tapes, 1945-1991. Copenhagen, Denmark: JazzMedia, [1993].
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 2233.15.51  

Nisenson, Eric. 'Round About Midnight: A Portrait of Miles Davis'. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 2233.15.60  

Szwed, John F. So What: The Life of Miles Davis. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
Location: Lamont Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML 419.D39 S98 2002  

Tingen, Paul. Miles Beyond: The Electric Explorations of Miles Davis, 1967-1991. New York: Billboard Books, 2001.
Location: Lamont Library; Call Number: ML 419.D39 T56 2001  
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 2233.15.82 
Note: Also includes sessionography

Yudkin, Jeremy. Miles Davis, Miles Smiles, and the Invention of Post Bop. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2008.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number ML419.D39 Y83 2008

Wiessmuller, Peter. Miles Davis: Sein Leben, Seine Musik, Seine Schallplatten. Gauting-Buchendorf: Oreos, [1984].
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 2233.15.94  

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