Author: Quincy Troupe
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520929067
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book 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.
Miles and Me
Author: Quincy Troupe
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520929067
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book 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.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520929067
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book 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.
Smiles for Miles
Author: Boyd Zimmer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733522458
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733522458
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Miles to the Finish
Author: Jamie Harper
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763655627
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Looking forward to participating in race day at Red Apple School, Miles and Otto discover tough competition in a Speedster-driving girl who becomes Miles' toughest rival on the track. By the creator of Miles to Go.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763655627
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Looking forward to participating in race day at Red Apple School, Miles and Otto discover tough competition in a Speedster-driving girl who becomes Miles' toughest rival on the track. By the creator of Miles to Go.
MILES & MILES.
Author: MILES. HEWITT
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781999937508
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781999937508
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Miles to Go Before I Sleep
Author: Jonathan Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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CAB Air Carrier Traffic Statistics
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
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ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1344
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Project Gnome, Carlsbad, New Mexico
Author: O. R. Placak
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear excavation
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear excavation
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Marketing and Transportation Situation
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Produce trade
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Produce trade
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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