An intimate story of Miles Davis, the man, the musician, and his friendship with the young journalist and poet Quincy Troupe--soon to be a major motion picture.
Poet, teacher, journalist Quincy Troupe is an alumnus of the Watts Writers Workshop and, along with his friends Ishmael Reed, Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni and others, associated with the Black Arts Movement. He was named California's first poet laureate in 2002. Troupe's Miles- The Autobiography is considered a contemporary classic of musical artist biography. Among his many other books are his collaboration on the autobiography of Chris Gardner, The Pursuit of Happyness, which became a popular film starring Will Smith. He also wrote James Baldwin- The Legacy and Earl the Pearl- My Story by Earl Monroe and Quincy Troupe. Troupe has published many volumes of his poetry over the years and has also published several children's books.
"Brilliant, poetic, provocative, Quincy Troupe's Miles and Me
reveals the man behind the dark glasses and legend." —Ishmael
Reed
"Using refreshingly unscholarly language, poet and literature
professor Troupe paints an aptly minimalist portrait of the artist
as a man-child in both his musical curiosity and his irrational
tantrums. Miles and Me is witheringly honest and deeply perceptive.
A must-read for Davis devotees." —Entertainment Weekly
"[Troupe] gives the stories behind the collaboration, from his own
introduction to Davis's music in the1950s—and to Davis's stature as
'an unreconstructed black man'—up to Davis's death in 1991..."
—The New York Times Book Review
"Troupe is a wonderfully astute judge of human behavior and brings
a poet's acuteness of vision to depicting Davis's aura of
intimidation and kingly power. He is also well aware of Davis's
deeply felt loneliness, the terrible solitude of genius." —Kirkus
Reviews
"It has been said that Miles Davis was a great poet on his
instrument. In a similar vein, it can be said that Quincy Troupe is
a great instrument in his poetic delivery. As fate would have it,
these two very talented individuals would form a mutual and
intriguing bond. Miles and Me, Quincy Troupe's latest book, is a
honest, serious and sometimes hilarious memoir of his warm and
cherished friendship with Miles Davis." —Larvester Gaither, QBR The
Black Book Review
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