WE SIMPLY HAVE TO FIND EVERY AMAZE JAPANESE MILES DAVIS BOOK AND WE CAN NOT STOP UNTIL EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM IS OURS/YOURS. NOW A NEW ENTRY INTO THE MOST EXCLUSIVE JAPANESE MILES DAVIS BOOK CHART BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER TADAYUKI NAITOH AND IT IS CALLED.....

I LOVED HIM MADLY. 

So much to say! Have to start with the title 'I Loved Him Madly'. Wow! Then where to go? Two pairs of sunglasses of course! Top pair look very much like Porsche 5622 Folding Gold and down on the end of his nose... Cebe Dakar Aviators we think. Then there's the Salvador Dali pulling out the hair from the sides pose... and the trumpet strap with the liquid metal hand over the shoulder - very Dali! 
 

Tadayuki Naitoh first photographed Miles in New York in 1971. He took his photographs secretly - catching what he could in darkness. 
 

Another one of the earlier black and white shots. Access granted by that point. 
 

Miles in colour. In 1985. Readers of these newsletters will know that Naitoh is the third Japanese photographer to shoot Miles in the 80s and enjoy extraordinary access. The forever sold out Miles Smiles was shot by Shigeru Uchiyama - that's waiting list only, that one. And The Man Behind The Legend is by Makoto Hata. We do actually have a copy of that book again here. Oh, and there is this one too! 
 

Again with the hair pulling but also amid the swirl of the sakura. There is a whole Miles / Sakura (cherry blossom) section to this book. The more poetic the license the better :)
 

And the colour takes over. Making this the most experimental of the Miles books. The jazz fusion. 
 

Colour by numbers. Miles and Tadayuki. He loved him madly. 

We have one copy of this book. It was only published in Japan in 2016 but, damn, is it scarce. If we could have found just one more we really would. But we could not. 

So just the one it is. On the button below!