Art – Miles Davis's last addiction

'It's like therapy for me, and it keeps my mind occupied with something when I'm not playing music,' the jazz great explained of his other splurge of artistic talentThe first surprise was that Miles Davis wanted to talk. The second was that as he talked, he also drew constantly, using felt-tip pens in a variety of colours – purple, khaki, crimson, black – to fill the pages of a large sketchbook with figures and faces, mostly of young women, rendered with a powerful sensuality, sometimes redu...

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