Titel: Miles & Me

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. Describing 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.