Quincy Troupe

Miles Davis ha sido uno de los músicos más importantes e influyentes del mundo. Su extraordinaria vida ha sido objeto de numerosas biografías, sin embargo, no fue hasta 1989, dos años antes de su muerte, cuando publico su autobiografia. En ella Miles se desnuda ante el lector y habla con toda crudeza de su vida personal, de su adiccion a las drogas, del alcohol, de su relacion con las mujeres, del racismo que existia en el negocio de la musica y, sobre todo, de musica y de musicos, de su relacion personal con leyendas del jazz como Charlie Parker o Dizzy Gillespie, entre otros. Ademas de un documento historico de incalculable valor es una narracion apasionante e intensa.

Quincy Troupe décrit par le détail le spectaculaire processus de la créativité chez son ami Miles Davis, mesurant du même coup l’immense influence de l’artiste sur des générations d’auditeurs et de m

Cet entretien se déroule à Saint-Paul-de-Vence, un mois avant le décès de James Baldwin.Quincy Troupe connaissait l’état avancé du cancer de son ami. Ils échangent sur Miles Davis pour qui James Bald

Ésta es la historia de una amistad inolvidable: la que unió al autor con uno de los personajes más singulares del panorama musical de los últimos cincuenta años. Miles Davis (1926-1991) no se limitaba a ser un espléndido trompetista; su nombre es sinónimo de innovación y de vanguardia, incluso fuera de los confines minoritarios del jazz. Quincy Troupe utiliza un acercamiento formal muy dinámico para desvelar los detalles de su relación con el gran músico, de quien dibuja un magnífico retrato íntimo: la genialidad de su arte, su difícil encaje social, su interés por la pintura, su experiencia en drogas y alcohol o su peculiar sentido del humor.

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, activist and journalist Quincy Troupes candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an engrossing chronicle of the authors own artistic and personal growth. Miles and Me describes in intimate detail the sometimes harrowing processes of Daviss spectacular creativity and the joys and travails Daviss passionate and contradictory temperament posed to the two mens friendship. Miles and Me shows how Miles Davis, both as an artist and as a black man, influenced Troupe and whole generations of Americans while forever changing the face of jazz.In 1985, Spin magazine hired Troupe to do an exclusive two-part interview with the by-then legendary jazz artist Davis. The hour-and-a-half scheduled interview stretched to ten hours. After it was published, Davis was so enamored of Troupe and the interview that he finally relented to a major publishers request that he write his autobiography under the condition that they could get Quincy Troupe to write it. Miles: The Autobiography became an instant bestseller and opened up the entire field of popular music autobiography. Years later, Quincy went back to his notes of his time with Miles that had been so important to them both, and produced this more intimate book, Miles and Me, told from his side of their friendship. Miles and Me takes us from St. Louis, where both men grew up, to New York, where both men lived, to Malibu where Miles also kept a home. Troupe also takes us through the entire catalogue of Daviss recordings. Troupe calls his friend "irascible, contemptuous, brutally honest, ill-tempered when things didnt go his way, complex, fair-minded, humble, kind, and a son-of-a-bitch." The authors love and appreciation infuses Miles and Me with a rare quality of grace, and at the same time, throughout the book, Troupes observations of his friend are keen, sometimes hilariously funny, and truthful, as he knows Miles would want him to be.

The selected poems from over fifty years by the great poet and biographer and friend of Miles Davis.Quincy Troupe writes poetry in great waves. The words are just notes. Its the music you make with them that matters. Hes not a wordsmith, hes a shaman conjuring long repetitive lines, cadences of looking across the sea towards Africa and haunted by the legacy of slavery and racism, or of remembering fellow conjurers, poets and musical artists, celebrating, always celebrating, but never only that. In the fifty-page, incantatory poem, "Ghost Voices," there is a longing to be reconnected to the past, and a longing too to be free of it. In the short title poem, "Duende: For Garcia Lorca and Miles Davis," there lies, nakedly, Troupes credo: "...secrets, mystery infused in black magic / that enters bodies in forms of music, art/ poetry imbuing language with sovereignty / in blood spooling back through violent centuries..." The version of the great poem "Avalanche (number 3)" that appears here is different from the version of the same poem he published nearly 25 years ago--in exactly the same way that a jazz artist picks up his horn to play the same song a little differently every time.Troupe is a generous and gregarious poet in this giant offering that includes many new poems, as well as a selection chosen from across his eleven previously published volumes. Whats remarkable is the constancy, the energy, and how hes always looking right at you in the here and now, and at the same time sees something over your shoulder that others dont see yet, maybe a distant storm gathering over the waters, something were going to need to rise up and face soon enough.

ACLAMADO UNIVERSALMENTE COMO UM GÊNIO MUSICAL, MILES DAVIS FOI UM DOS MÚSICOS MAIS IMPORTANTES E INFLUENTES DO MUNDO. NESTE LIVRO, ELE SOLTA O VERBO SOBRE SUA VIDA EXTRAORDINÁRIA.Miles Davis: A Autob