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University of California Press
June 2002
On Sale: May 30, 2002
198 pages
ISBN: 0520234715
EAN: 9780520234710
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Non-Fiction
Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles
Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an
intimate study of a unique relationship. It is also an
engrossing chronicle of the author's own development, both
artistic and personal. As Davis's collaborator on Miles:
The Autobiography,Troupe--one of the major poets to emerge
from the 1960s--had exceptional access to the musician.
This memoir goes beyond the life portrayed in the
autobiography to describe in detail the processes of
Davis's spectacular creativity and the joys and
difficulties his passionate, contradictory temperament
posed to the men's friendship. It shows how Miles Davis,
both as a black man and an artist, influenced not only
Quincy Troupe but whole generations.
Troupe has written that Miles Davis was "irascible,
contemptuous, brutally honest, ill-tempered when things
didn't go his way, complex, fair-minded, humble, kind and a
son-of-a-bitch." The author's love and appreciation for
Davis make him a keen, though not uncritical, observer. He
captures and conveys the power of the musician's presence,
the mesmerizing force of his personality, and the restless
energy that lay at the root of his creativity. He also
shows Davis's lighter side: cooking, prowling the streets
of Manhattan, painting, riding his horse at his Malibu
home. Troupe discusses Davis's musical output, situating
his albums in the context of the times--both political and
musical--out of which they emerged. Miles and Me is an
unparalleled look at the act of creation and the forces
behind it, at how the innovations of one person can inspire
both those he knows and loves and the world at large.
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