Miles Davis released the best-selling jazz album of all time in 1959. The new graphic novel from Z2 comics, Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound. adapted from Davis’ own words and music. In 1982, Davis suffered a stroke that left him unable to play his trumpet. To regain his coordination, his medical team encouraged him to start creating patterns and scribbles, where the graphic novel begins the story. Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound comes to stores September 26, 2023.
Here’s the official synopsis:
The graphic novel chronicles Davis’ journey from his childhood in Illinois to mastering jazz improvisation throughout the ’40s, ‘50s, and ‘60s. These formative experiences led him to redefine the form again and again, culminating into the psychedelic frontiers of afro futurism throughout the ‘70s and beyond. Cartoonist Dave Chisholm, who received his doctorate in Jazz Trumpet from the Eastman School of Music, takes readers on a meticulously researched odyssey charting this dynamic figure’s musical evolution. Throughout, Chisholm centers on the one obsession threaded throughout Davis’ sprawling career: a restless search for the sound. A search that shattered and redefined the limits of what jazz—and music—could be.
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