Author: Quincy Troupe File Type: epub 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. **Review Brilliant, poetic, provocative, Quincy Troupes 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 Daviss music in the1950sand to Daviss stature as an unreconstructed black manup to Daviss death in 1991... New York Times Book Review* Troupe is a wonderfully astute judge of human behavior and brings a poets acuteness of vision to depicting Daviss aura of intimidation and kingly power. He is also well aware of Daviss 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 Troupes 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 * About the Author Quincy Troupe is a professor of literature at the University of California San Diego and the author of thirteen books. Two of his books, Miles The Autobiography and Snake-Back Solos, have won the American Book Award. He also wrote Avalanche, Choruses, James Baldwin The Legacy, and Take it to the Hoop, Magic Johnson. In 2002, he was named Poet Laureate of the State of California by the California Arts Council.

Author: J. O. Urmson File Type: pdf Is there such a thing as three-dimensional space? Is space inert or dynamic? Is the division of time into past, present and future real? Does the whole of time exist all at once? Does it progress smoothly or by discontinuous leaps? Simplicius surveys ideas about place and time from the preceding thousand years of Greek Philosophy and reveals the extraordinary ingenuity of the late Neoplatonist theories, which he regards as marking a substantial advance on all previous ideas. **