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The Last Miles: The Music of Miles Davis, 1980-1991.(Book review)
The Last Miles: The Music of Miles Davis, 1980-1991. By George Cole. (Jazz Perspectives.) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. [xi, 534 p. ISBN 0-472-11501-4. $35.] Index, discography, photographs.
Despite the presence of numerous musical and biographical studies of Miles Davis, there has been a notable lack of scholarly interest in the music of his final decade. Aside from Paul Tingen's 2001 work (Miles Beyond: The Electric Explorations of Miles Davis, 1967-1991 [New York: Billboard, 2001]), there exists no extended study of Davis's music from 1980 to 1991. Tingen himself acknowledges that his book focuses primarily on Davis's music from the 1970s, ...
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