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So What: The Life of Miles Davis the doors furious yet hilarious music thatby John Szwed (Author) Musical genius, visionary artist, enigma more than ten years after his death, Miles Davis still looms large as a cultural icon. In this, the first new biography since Davis' death, John Szwed draws on various archives and never before published interviews with those who knew him to produce the richest and most revealing portrait of Miles Davis to date. The shy son of a dentist from Illinois, Miles Dewey Davis III would go