My Funny Valentine, Miles Davis y la improvisación by David Hargreaves

“… Este artículo utiliza la conocida canción popular My Funny Valentine y una grabación particular de esta realizada por Miles Davis como base para analizar algunos procesos psicológicos en la improvisación y en la composición musical. …”
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Forbidden triads and creative success in jazz: the Miles Davis factor by Vedres, B

“…The article also shows that the sessions of Miles Davis had received an especially high boost from forbidden triads.…”

La question de l’auctorialité partagée en jazz : l’exemple de Miles Davis by Philippe Michel

“…Le modèle d’auctorialité individuelle et exclusive (qui est aussi un modèle de représentation sociale) issu de la culture « savante » européenne s’est imposé au jazz, aussi bien en droit de l’édition que dans l’imaginaire collectif et jusque dans celui des musiciens eux-mêmes, alors que la réalité est bien différente. Miles Davis représente un archétype de ce problème d’auctorialité. …”
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Variações da melancolia na música do século XX: by Rainer Patriota

“…O presente texto se debruça sobre três figuras icônicas da música “melancólica” do século XX: a cantora de blues Bessie Smith, a cantora de jazz Billie Holiday e o trompetista Miles Davis. Com esses exemplos, o que se quer é delinear um panorama histórico fundado em tipos representativos. …”
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REFLEXOS DO JAZZ NA LITERATURA PORTUGUESA by Cristina PETRESCU

“…Francisco Duarte Azevedo bemoaned, in “O Trompete de Miles Davis”, the impossibility of forgetting jazz, which is as pervasive as nicotine, and João Tordo turned “O Ano Sabático” into an identity labyrinth inhabited by the mythical indetermination of jazz. …”
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Form by Grimley, D

“…This essay does not attempt to offer a singular definition, but rather seeks to explore aspects of the term’s history and origin, exemplifying its usage (and its implications for writing on music) across a broad repertoire from Machaut to Miles Davis. Form is predictive, regulative, and heuristic. …”

OK Computer: Analogue Death, Digital Rebirth, and Radiohead’s Electronic Turn by Kwasu David Tembo

“…In order to provide as holistic an analysis of the theme of denouement as possible, this paper’s analysis will be predicated on questions, concepts, and ideas including but not limited to the following: the leitmotif of denouement present in the thematic influences on the album, such as the influence of the track “Exit Music (For a Film)” commissioned by director Baz Luhrmann on the rest of the album; the influence of radical analogue experimentation culled from Miles Davis’ avant-garde jazz fusion album Bitches Brew (1970); the theme of resignation, interstice, liminality, and transference/-formation in relation to the “computer syndrome” as discussed in Michael Heffernan’s “Fin de Siècle, Fin du Monde?” …”
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Murakami Haruki’s America: Talk, Taste, and The Specter of the Untranslatable by Brian Hurley

“…As the article compares the styles of speaking documented in “The Road Home From Berkeley” with those that appear in the English- and Japanese-language versions of Miles Davis’s autobiography Miles (which Murakami discusses in “The Road Home From Berkeley”) and J.D. …”
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Jazz fusion : A Case study of ethno funk by Tophati / Mohd Azirien Ishak by Ishak, Mohd Azirien

“…During the 60’s and the 70’s jazz was mainly popular only among the people in the west but nowadays, many people in Asia have embraced jazz and made it as one of their favourite genres in music. Musicians like Mile Davis, John Mclaughlin and Pet Metheny have influenced musicians around Asia to fusejazz music with their local music. …”
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