BLUE NOTES IN BLACK AND WHITE Photography and Jazz By Benjamin Cawthra Illustrated. 345 pages. University of Chicago Press. $45. Benjamin Cawthra's ''Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz'' is not entirely, or specifically, about its subtitle. That would be a book with a lot more images, or at least with more concentrated information...
AROUND this time last year it became hard not to see the Miles Davis reissue juggernaut as a snake swallowing its own tail. What cinched the impression was the arrival of ''The Genius of Miles Davis,'' encompassing all of Davis's output for Columbia. It wasn't a bricklike compendium of albums -- that had been done, with great fanfare, the previous...

Ian Carr, a Scottish-born trumpeter who, like his formidable influence, Miles Davis, was an early practitioner of jazz-rock fusion and later repaid his artistic debt by writing Davis's biography, died on Feb. 25 in London. He was 75. The cause was complications after pneumonia and a series of mini-strokes, Alyn Shipton, Mr. Carr's biographer, said...
Miles Dewey Davis III. (26. maj 1926, Illinois, Alton - 28. september 1991, Santa Monica) var en amerikansk jazzmusiker og komponist. Hans primære instrument var trompet, men han spillede også keyboard og var en indflydelsesrig bandleader.
Han begyndte at spille professionelt som 16-årig i forskellige klubber i St. Louis. Han påbegyndte nogle år senere på det klassiske konservatorium i New York, men afsluttede ikke studierne.
I 1940'erne spillede han bl.a. med Charlie Parker og Dizzy Gillespie, men hans improvisationer stod i tydelig kontrast til datidens bebop-stil, bl.a. forbi han benyttede få og lange toner. Han var senere en foregangsmand for den såkaldte cool jazz-stil. Den kom til udtryk gennem samarbejdet med bl.a. Gerry Mulligan på de indspilninger, der senere blev udgivet samlet som "Birth of the Cool" (1949-50), og med Gil Evans f.eks. på "Miles Ahead"(1957), "Porgy and Bess"(1958) og "Sketches of Spain"(1959-60). Fold ud