Paul Tingen: Miles Beyond

Amazon.UK are doing this book for under 9 quid - and from what I've read in the first two chapter, it appears to be excellent value.  So anybody fancy book clubbing the book here in next few months? Paul Tingen makes it very clear that as a rock fan, he felt a lot of critical analysis offered in other Davis biographies, either avoided the post- Bitches Brew period thru' to Miles' death, or approached the music with a significant jazz-bias, lacking any deep rock appreciation and interpretation. Tingen has set out to rectify this situtation - and let's see if he does especially to find  if   the quotes of praise, littering the book's cover, from the likes of  Stuart Nicholson and 6 others, is justified?

Since Tingem quotes Robert Fripp a couple of times in the start, then I feel we are going to get writing and analysis of Miles' electric music, which differs from others. One other thing I like, is Tingen's assertion that many people remember with quite some detail, the first time their heard Miles playing, OR where they were when they heard of Miles' death. I can't claim memory of the latter, but Peter Drummond on BBC Radio One's  Sunday Night LP show (8 to 9pm) sometime in 1970 did it for me, playing the full Pharaoh's Dance from Bitches.


Edited by Dick Heath - November 01 2007 at 13:38