In this masterful biography, Luca Cerchiari presents Miles not as an isolated genius, but as a living laboratory—both the driving force and the horizon of the great revolutions in jazz—surrounded by musicians whom he revealed and transformed (John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Gil Evans, Joe Zawinul, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, John McLaughlin, Jack DeJohnette, Marcus Miller).
Rejecting any linear or mythologizing interpretation, Cerchiari emphasizes the ruptures, the risks, and the dramaturgy of sound that underpin Davis’s work. The translation by Stéphanie Acquette, herself a musician, conveys with rare precision this vision of jazz as an ethics of listening, a practice of risk, and a way of being in the world—where sound becomes a space of freedom, ritual, and transformation. 516 pages book, in French.
TRADUCTION : STÉPHANIE ACQUETTE
LIVRE 516 PAGES