So What: The Life of Miles Davis
So What: The Life of Miles Davis
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那又怎样：迈尔斯·戴维斯的一生
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2002
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John F. Szwed
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John F. Szwed
去世十多年后，迈尔斯·戴维斯似乎一如既往地受欢迎。他的音乐无处不在。他的唱片《Kind of Blue》被视为经典。他与查理·帕克（Charlie Parker）和塞隆尼斯·蒙克（Thelonious Monk）等爵士乐最优秀的人一起演奏，而他的助手——约翰·科尔特兰（John Coltrane）、韦恩·肖特（Wayne Shorter）、奇克·科里亚（Chick Corea）、基思·贾勒特（Keith Jarrett）、约翰·麦克劳克林（John McLaughlin）——成为了音乐界的明星。他的形象一如既往地酷、时尚、新鲜。然而迈尔斯本人仍然是一个谜，关于他的生活的神话也层出不穷。是什么原因导致他如此频繁地改变风格呢？为什么他对这么多人如此难相处，甚至充满敌意？为什么在他事业的巅峰时期，他退出表演并消失在他家的黑暗中多年？在戴维斯去世后的第一本新传记中，约翰·斯韦德审视了迈尔斯的生活和音乐，他发现它们密不可分。在他的音乐和生活中，迈尔斯被迫做出改变。一旦他建立了新的音乐模式和新的自我，他就从根本上改变了两者。要了解迈尔斯不断变化的风格，我们必须了解他的个性、他的恶魔、他不断变化的身份以及他对爵士乐作为一门艺术的渴望。约翰·斯维德（John Szwed）采访了数十位在迈尔斯人生不同阶段认识他的人，其中一些人以前很少（如果有的话）接受过采访。他检查了各种档案，以填补戴维斯生活中的空白，并了解他的政治观点、毒品的作用、他的工作方式以及他与音乐家、制作人和唱片公司高管的关系。其成果是迄今为止最丰富、最权威的迈尔斯·戴维斯传记，也是对这位音乐天才和文化偶像的一生最有说服力的诠释，其影响力丝毫未减。
More than ten years after his death, Miles Davis seems to be as popular as ever. His music is everywhere. His recording "Kind of Blue" is regarded as a classic. He played with the best that jazz had to offer, from Charlie Parker to Thelonious Monk, and his acolytes -- John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, John McLaughlin -- became the stars of the music. His image is as cool, as hip, as fresh as ever. Yet Miles himself remains something of an enigma, and myths proliferate about his life. What caused him to change styles so often? Why was he so difficult, even hostile, to so many people? Why, at the peak of his career, did he withdraw from performing and disappear for years into the darkness of his house? In this, the first new biography since Davis' death, John Szwed has examined Miles' life and music, and he finds them inseparable. In his music and in his life, Miles was compelled to change. As quickly as he established a new mode of music and a new self, he radically altered both. To understand Miles' shifting styles, one has to understand his personality, his demons, his changing identities, his aspirations for jazz as an art. John Szwed has spoken to dozens of people who knew Miles at different points in his life, some of whom had seldom, if ever, been interviewed before. He has examined various archives to fill in the blanks in Davis' life, and to learn about his politics, the role of drugs, how he worked, what relationships he had with musicians, producers, and record executives. The result is the richest and most authoritative biography of Miles Davis to date, and the most persuasive interpretation of the life of a musical genius and cultural iconwhose influence is undiminished.