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John Szwed is Musser Professor of Anthropology, African American Studies, Music, and American Studies at Yale University and author of "Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra." He lives near New Haven, Connecticut.

Musical genius, visionary artist, enigma -- more than ten years after his death, Miles Davis still looms large as a cultural icon. In this, the first new biography since Davis' death, John Szwed draws on various archives and never-before-published interviews with those who knew... Read Full Overview

Miles Davis was one of the crucial influences in the development of modern jazz. His Kind of Blue is an automatic inclusion in any critic's list of the great jazz albums, the one record people who own no other jazz records possess, and still sells 250,000 copies a year in... Read Full Overview