This volume is a collection of miscellaneous essays never published before on Miles Davis, a milestone of jazz musicÕs history. The essays are heterogeneous and connected by the person of Davis as a trait dÕunion. Many aspects of his figure are analyzed: the vocal idioms by Miracle Amah; the cultural impact and racial issues by William Alderman; the positive or negative legacy on the posterity by Anthony Cincotta; the ability to use the influence of other cultures to create art by Gregorio Maria Paone; and how the media nowadays see Miles, by Afroditi Mitsopoulou.
What is immediately evident is that no matter from which angle you are looking at Miles, his figure will always be grand and almost impossible to ignore.