Miles Davis: Jekyll and Hyde

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

Miles Davis was a jazz superstar, one of the greatest musical innovators ever, beloved by many. He was also reclusive, misogynistic, and mistrustful of others. Miles’s son Gregory Davis details the complicated personality of his famous father in his new book Dark Magus: The Jekyll and Hyde Life of Miles Davis.

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