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Let A Basketball Story Inspire Your ChildA Basketball Story follows Coach Miles Davis and his youth basketball team on their road to victory. But as the team inches closer to the championship game, Coach Miles notices something different about the players; has their winning streak gone to their heads? Will they be able to put their pride aside before the big game, or will they crumble under their own hubris? Entertain your child with this thrilling...
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1 audio disc (60 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Experience one hour of rare live performances by Miles Davis' 1969 and 1970 bands performing repertoire from the classic album Bitches brew. Offers three previously unissued tracks recorded July 5, 1969 at Newport Jazz Festival, including the first ever professionally recorded live version of Miles Runs the Voodoo Down, and the first known recording of the revamped electric version of Sanctuary, just over a month before Miles went into the studio...
15) Bags' groove
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1 audio disc (46 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Gathering 30 most vital Miles Davis interviews--on his music, his life, and his philosophy--this collection reveals the jazz icon as a complex and contradictory man, secretive at times but extraordinarily revealing at others. Miles was not only a musical genius, but an enigma, and nowhere else was he so compelling, exasperating, and entertaining as he was in his interviews, which vary from polite to outrageous, from straight-ahead to contrarian. Many...
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Focusing on one of the legendary musicians in jazz, this book examines Miles Davis's often overlooked music of the mid-1960s with a close examination of the evolution of a new style: post bop. Jeremy Yudkin traces Davis's life and work during a period when the trumpeter was struggling with personal and musical challenges only to emerge once again as the artistic leader of his generation. A major force in post-war American jazz, Miles Davis was a pioneer...
20) Miles ahead
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and medications, and his mind haunted my unsettling ghosts from the past.
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