Miles and Me

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. Describing 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, Miles and Me shows how, both as an artist and as a black man, Davis influenced Troupe and whole generations of Americans while forever changing the face of jazz.