Miles & Me
Miles Davis, the man, the musician, and his friendship with the journalist and poet Quincy Troupe
Soon to be a major motion picture from the producers of Fences and The HurricaneBrilliant, poetic, provocative, Quincy Troupe's Miles & Me reveals the man behind the dark glasses and legend.-Ishmael Reed Poet, activist, and journalist Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an engrossing chronicle of the author's own artistic and personal growth. Miles & Me describes in intimate detail the sometimes harrowing processes of Davis's spectacular creativity and the joys and travails Davis's passionate and contradictory temperament posed to the two men's friendship. M…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60980-834-1
- EAN: 9781609808341
- Produktnummer: 23946722
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.4 cm x D1.7 cm 284 g
- Gewicht: 284
Über den Autor
Poet, teacher, journalist Quincy Troupe is an alumnus of the Watts Writers Workshop and, along with his friends Ishmael Reed, Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni and others, associated with the Black Arts Movement. He was named California's first poet laureate in 2002. Troupe's Miles: The Autobiography is considered a contemporary classic of musical artist biography. Among his many other books are his collaboration on the autobiography of Chris Gardner, The Pursuit of Happyness, which became a popular film starring Will Smith. He also wrote James Baldwin: The Legacy and Earl the Pearl: My Story by Earl Monroe and Quincy Troupe. Troupe has published many volumes of his poetry over the years and has also published several children's books.
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