The Miles Davis autobiography is really really good. It's a great primer in jazz history too, and how he'd helped shape it. I listened to all the records by Diz

The Miles Davis autobiography is really really good. It's a great primer in jazz history too, and how he'd helped shape it. I listened to all the records by Dizzy/Bird/etc while reading the book and it was sort of transformative experience. Highly recommended read. It's crazy how he wasn't just a musical force in terms of writing music or transforming the genre itself, but how he consistently found/groomed some of the best musicians as part of his various bands. I suppose Joe Zawinul is somewhat similar in his Syndicate projects, consistently discovering the best musicians, especially bassists...