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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.
  
  **
  
  From Publishers Weekly
  
 
Growing up in St. Louis, Mo., in the 1950s, Troupe idolized jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, seeing him as an alternative to
his own white-dominated neighborhood and high school. Miles, as a successful black man embodying all that was hip and
proud, was a favorite role model for Troupe and his friends. Thirty years later, Troupe met his hero, and eventually
collaborated with him on Miles: The Autobiography. Now he's documented his relationships with man and music in this
slim, conversational volume. In casual, sentimental language ridden with gossipy details about Miles's Italian designer
clothes, Troupe notes every interaction between Miles and himself that preceded their collaboration and relates favorite
vignettes from that project. But what's notable about these anecdotes is how banal they are, from a story about an
incompetent roadie, whom Miles predicted would drop everything because he "walked out of tempo," to Troupe's reflections
on Miles's habit of hurling harsh insults at strangers who approached him. Although Miles's fans may be happy to read
sketches from his life, this book works more as a commentary on the phenomenon of devoted fandom than as another
biography of the trumpeter. The book's third section, in which Troupe (now a professor of literature at UC-San Diego)
writes about how Miles affected his own coming-of-age, is by far the most compelling, because it deals with the
emotional effects music can have upon its listeners--which is, after all, both the cause and the most lyrical side of
fandom. 16 b&w photos not seen by PW. (Mar.) 
  Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. 						

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