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Summary: A MUST READ FOR MILES FANS!
Review: I've been a fan of Miles Davis since hearing "Kind of Blue" in 1992. Miles legend precedes him and this book helped me gain a better understanding of him as an artist, musician and man.I especially liked the way the author used Miles music to recollect his own life--what he was doing and how he felt about each new release. For a fan like me, that gave me a idea of how it would have been to anxiously await each new Miles Davis album. Quincy Troupe was obviously a fan and a friend. I'm glad he wrote this book.
Rating:
Summary: A MUST READ FOR MILES FANS!
Review: I've been a fan of Miles Davis since hearing "Kind of Blue" in 1992. Miles legend precedes him and this book helped me gain a better understanding of him as an artist, musician and man. I especially liked the way the author used Miles music to recollect his own life--what he was doing and how he felt about each new release. For a fan like me, that gave me a idea of how it would have been to anxiously await each new Miles Davis album. Quincy Troupe was obviously a fan and a friend. I'm glad he wrote this book.
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Summary: Deeply disappointing
Review: Quincy Troupe and Miles Davis first collaborated on 1989's MILES, a work that had a lot to say -- and a lot to answer for. Some disliked its rough language, many more took offense at its misogyny and unforgiving attitude toward fellow musicians. The book also took great liberties "adapting" from previous books on Miles without giving due credit. You won't know this from MILES AND ME. All we get here is the jazz version of TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, where our intrepid interviewer gets to the heart of a crotchety old man and reveals him as -- what else -- a down-home guy with a heart of gold. While Miles's autobiography was an intriguing but flawed portrait of Black masculinity and American genius, MILES AND ME steps away from any real analysis of his attitudes, his life or his legacy. Some nice anecdotes are sprinkled throughout the rather formless narrative, but it's easily missed amid all the sentimentality. As I read MILES, I wondered what it would be like to be a fly on the wall, hearing The Man's life story. I'm still waiting...
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Summary: Self Serving Gossip
Review: Troupe continues to lower himself with this book. It hasalready been demonstrated that much of Miles's so called autobiographywas ( ) -- Troupe copied things wholesale from earlierbiographies and magazine articles. Now he stoops to this jumbled collection of half truths that aren't all that interesting in the first place. Was Troupe really Miles best friend -- probably not, but who cares? We should be interested in the music and the creative process -- Troupe, who used to be a poet, should be able to address these things -- but doesn't even make an effort -- END
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Summary: Miles of Troupe
Review: Troupe is an outstanding poet and performer of his words, he was also Miles Davis's biographer, and has written a memoir of that relationship which is redundant, self-serving, fan-mag ooze which makes one reconsider the biography Troupe assembled from taped interviews with Davis, perhaps the most durable and ominpresent jazz soloist since Louis Armstrong. Published by a University press obviously trying to hit the trade marketplace, this slim volume reads like it were much longer.
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