天美传媒

Book launch for Rethinking Miles Davis听
[Oxford University Press May 2026]
Edited by Roger Fagge, Nicolas Pillai听and Tim Wall
Photo Credit: Miles Davis, Apollo, Manchester, 1989 by William Ellis听

This book launch celebrates the forthcoming publication of Rethinking Miles Davis听in the centenary of the birth of this defining figure of jazz. We invite you to join us in exploring some of the chapters of the book, many written by researchers at 天美传媒.

The book听challenges the orthodoxy of jazz criticism, repositioning Miles Davis within a larger framework of modernism and mass culture and exploring:听the ways Davis pushed jazz into new genre forms, re-envisioned jazz standards, and collaborated musically, to his role in the record companies that released his music, the persona he developed in video, film, and fashion, and how his masculinity manifested both professionally and personally.

Some of the authors will present their own chapters and there will be an opportunity to discuss the life and music of Miles Davis. Speakers so far confirmed include:

• Introduction听鈥� Tim Wall, BCU on behalf of the editors
• Miles Behind: Jazz Studies, Masculinity and #MeToo听鈥� Tony Whyton, BCU
• Locating Tutu and Miles on a Second Major听鈥� Tim Wall, BCU
• My One Miles Davis LP; a photo essay听鈥� William Ellis, independent photographer and researcher
• Encounter, Surprise, and Acceptance:听Revisiting Miles Davis on听and off听stage in Portugal听听鈥� Pedro Cravinho, BCU
• It鈥檚 never too late: Miles Davis and modernism 鈥� Nicholas Gebhardt, BCU
• Orchestrating Miles: Collaboration, Orchestration, and the Black Aesthetic听- Bobbie-Jane Gardner, BCU

This event is kindly supported by the National Jazz Archive.