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Miles and Me [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
eBook by Quincy Troupe
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eBook Category: Sports/Entertainment
eBook Description:  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.
eBook Publisher: University of California Press, Published: 2000
Fictionwise Release Date: December 2002
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Available eBook Formats [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe - What's this?]: SECURE MICROSOFT READER FORMAT [531 KB] - Requires Microsoft Reader 2.1.1 for PCs, or Microsoft Reader 2.2.2 on Pocket PC 2002 handheld devices. Some older Pocket PCs can be upgraded. Learn More., SECURE ADOBE READER 7 FORMAT [961 KB]
Secure Adobe: Printing enabled, Read-aloud DISABLED
Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
Adobe Acrobat Reader ISBN: 0520900154
Microsoft Reader ISBN: 05202347150520900162
 
"Introduces us to the moody genius of the jazz trumpeter and paints a candid portrait--full of imperfections and color--that gives us a rare window into Davis's world."--Ebony Magazine
"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 "Pithy and succinct (one wishes he had written twice as much), Troupe continues to flesh out and demystify Davis in this follow-up to their collaboration, Miles: The Autobiography. Filled with 'Milesian' humor and off-color language (those sensitive to gratuitous swearing may find this an arduous read), Troupe's book reveals Davis as profoundly, artistically sensitive yet maddeningly mean spirited and rude."--Library Journal "Troupe seems to have penetrated the jazz legend's prickly exterior. Miles and Me seduces with hilariously mundane anecdotes."--Flaunt "Both a revealing look at a musical genius and a tender, surprisingly sweet remembrance of a good but demanding friend."--Booklist "[Troupe] gives the stories behind the collaboration, from his own introduction to Davis's music in the 1950s--and to Davis's stature as 'an unreconstructed black man'--up to Davis's death in 1991."--New York Times Book Review "Many memoirs of friendships with famous people tend toward the sycophantic and predictable, but Quincy Troupe's Miles and Me is a vivid, complicated tribute to the legendary jazz musician."--Chicago Tribune "Miles and Me attempts to give the legend and public persona of Miles Davis a human face. But the book's finest moments occur when Troupe reveals his own reactions to the personality--and especially the music-of Miles."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch "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 an honest, serious and sometimes hilarious memoir of his warm and cherished friendship with Miles Davis."--Larvester Gaither, QBR The Black Book Review
Listening to Miles play, I was always conscious way before I met him of being in the presence of a great poet, one who constructed great metaphors through the medium of sound. His voice is very close to that of a human voice. It was a mysterious voice that made me dream.
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