Gathering the 30 most vital Miles Davis interviewson his music his life and his philosophythis 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 straightahead to contrarian. Many were conducted by leading journalists like Leonard Feather Stephen Davis Ben Sidran Mike Zwerin and Nat Hentoff while others have never before been printed and are newly transcribed from radio and television showsmaking this the definitive source for anyone wanting to really encounter the legend in print. show more