songS oF innocencE & experiencE: Jazz

My Jazz Reading Project

First the André Hodeir Trilogy:

Jazz: Its Evolution and Essence (1956)

https://songsofinnocenceampexperience.blogspot.com/2022/02/ddr-jazz-its-evolution-and-essence-by.html

Toward Jazz (1962)

https://songsofinnocenceampexperience.blogspot.com/2022/03/ddr-toward-jazz-by-andre-hodeir.html

The Worlds of Jazz (1970)

https://songsofinnocenceampexperience.blogspot.com/2022/03/ddr-worlds-of-jazz-andre-hodeir.html

And then the Dizzy Gillespie AutoBiography:

https://songsofinnocenceampexperience.blogspot.com/2022/03/ddr-to-be-or-not-tobop-by-dizzy.html

And then some Miles Davis books:

https://songsofinnocenceampexperience.blogspot.com/2022/04/ddr-kind-of-blue-making-of-miles-davis.html

Kind of wanted to read the Miles Davis autobiography after this, but was afraid to take it on, since I already know things about Miles that I wish I didn't know...and which, I'm sorry to say, erode my love for his music, even though that probably should be in another category.

Went for this instead:

https://songsofinnocenceampexperience.blogspot.com/2022/04/ddr-making-of-kind-of-blue-miles-davis.html

And then I thought it was Horse's Mouth time.

So I decided to take the plunge. Deep breath. I have the feeling that this is going to be rough.

https://songsofinnocenceampexperience.blogspot.com/2022/04/ddr-miles-autobiography-by-miles-davis.html

And it was rough. So rough that I put it down at page 229 for violence against women, racism, and unrelenting assholiness. And I switched to a little Coltrane.