xiii, 204 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Note
Includes index.
"Originally published in 2000 by University of California Press"--Title page verso.
Contents
Meeting Miles -- Up close and personal -- Listening to Miles -- Saying goodbye.
Summary
Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a portrait of a great musician and a chronicle of the author's own artistic and personal growth. He describes in intimate detail the sometimes harrowing processes of Davis's creativity and the joys and travails Davis's passionate and contradictory temperament posed to the two men's friendship. Troupe shows how Miles Davis, both as an artist and as a black man, influenced him and whole generations of Americans while forever changing the face of jazz. --From publisher description.
