Miles and Me
Title | Miles and Me PDF eBook |
Author | Quincy Troupe |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 222 |
Release | 2000-03-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780520216242 |
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.
The Last Miles
Title | The Last Miles PDF eBook |
Author | George Cole |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | 570 |
Release | 2007-07-17 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780472032600 |
The story of the final recordings of one of the greatest jazz musicians of the twentieth century
Hugo & Miles in
Title | Hugo & Miles in PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Magoon |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 52 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780618646388 |
The dynamic duo of Hugo and Miles travels to Paris in this fun adventure thatlets young readers see the world from a different angle. Full color.
Miles Beyond
Title | Miles Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Tingen |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780823083602 |
Presents an in-depth exploration of the musician's controversial electric period and the impact it had on the jazz community, as drawn from firsthand recollections about his artistic and personal life. Reprint.
Maudie and Me and the Dirty Book
Title | Maudie and Me and the Dirty Book PDF eBook |
Author | Betty Miles |
Publisher | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | 144 |
Release | 1994-09-01 |
Genre | Censorship |
ISBN | 9780394825953 |
Eleven-year-old Kate's ordinary life in a small Massachusetts town becomes quite extraordinary when she becomes involved with Maudie Schmidt and an inter-school reading project.
I Love You for Miles and Miles
Title | I Love You for Miles and Miles PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Goldberg |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2017-12-26 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1466897627 |
Love can be stronger than the strongest excavator, longer than the longest train, and taller than the tallest crane. And no matter where you go, love travels with you always. With exciting imagery and engaging, lyrical text, Alison Goldberg and Mike Yamada's I Love You for Miles and Miles is an I-love-you book perfect for children who love things that go!
Miles
Title | Miles PDF eBook |
Author | Miles Davis |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 452 |
Release | 1990-09-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0671725823 |
Miles discusses his life and music from playing trumpet in high school to the new instruments and sounds from the Caribbean.