27 Dec
2002
27 Dec
'02
1:22 a.m.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/27/books/27BOOK.html It's not fully but mainly positive. For the German speaking (or reading, in this case) people I can recommend Peter Niklas Wilson's sober and analytic Davis book (2001): http://www.oreos.de/miles.htm Since the second half of the 80ies, Wilson (co-)wrote biographies about Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins*, Ornette Coleman*, Anthony Braxton and Albert Ayler (the latter being the only one not published by Oreos). Wilson makes the best out of the publisher's conceptual limits. *These books were translated into English. Amazon has short excerpts from the Coleman biography, which received a not-so-great but IMO unjust review in The Wire No. 194. Regards Franz Fuchs