Davis, then separated from his first wife, had seen Tyson on the TV show “East Side/West Side” and was smitten, he wrote in “The Autobiography of Miles Davis,” his vindictive, riveting ...

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Chisholm begins Davis’ story in 1987, in his doctor’s office where Davis is first given a pencil and sketchbook as a way to rehabilitate from a stroke that paralyzed his right hand.

Miles Davis was the personification of restless spirit, ... Davis, with his ear for talent, hand picked a group of virtually unknown players: 20-year-old bassist Paul Chambers, ...