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Miles

‘LISTEN. The greatest feeling I ever had in my life – with my clothes on – was when I first heard Diz and Bird back in 1944. I’ve come close to matching the feeling of that night, but I’ve never quite got there. I’m always looking for it, trying to always feel it in and through the music I play . . .’

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The Accordion Years

The poet and journalist Quincy Troupe has told the stories of many people before, often to great acclaim, but not until now has he told us his own incredible story.Known for the power of his metaphors and the stride in his sentences, Troupe’s language springs from the rhythms of jazz and the history of the African diaspora. Even today, Quincy Troupe will tell you that the strength in his writing is his memories of his parents and grandparents and the worlds they showed him through their eyes. Here is Quincy Troupe’s first memoir, his own life in his own words.Troupe’s father was the legendary catcher Quincy Troupe Sr., a hero of the Negro Leagues who played for the Cleveland Indians in 1952 at the end of his long career, fielding flawlessly with a 1000 fielding rating, one of the oldest and highest achieving rookies ever.Quincy junior grew up in St. Louis and went to Grambling College on a basketball and baseball scholarship. But he was a rebel who could not be put down, so trouble found him and he was asked to leave Grambling. Shortly after, his own beloved mother asked him to leave home in similar fashion. She registered him in the US Army, and he spent the next 3 ½ of his six-year enlistment period playing basketball on the All-Army basketball team in France (1959-1962).From the time he left sports for writing, he excelled in many forms, from poetry to journalism to bestselling nonfiction. Troupe did the last interview with James Baldwin, and his friendship with Miles Davis led to their legendary collaboration in Miles: The Autobiography, which began when Spin magazine sent young Quincy over to Miles Davis’s house and it turned out they were both from St. Louis—and Miles liked him!

Quincy Troupe

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr., born July 22, 1939, in St Louis , Missouri, is a poet, editor (recently the Styx River Magazine and Black Renaissance Noire), journalist, and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, California. Quincy Troupe was actually born in 1939, not 1943. The son of Negro League baseball catcher Quincy Trouppe (who added a second "P" to the family name while playing in Mexico to accommodate the Spanish pronunciation "Trou-pay"), Troupe Jr. attended Grambling State University on a baseball scholarship; he failed to finish either of his first two semesters and subsequently joined the United States Army. In his free time as a soldier, he developed the passion for writing that would define his career. Upon his return to civilian life, Troupe moved to Los Angeles, where he encountered the Watts Writers Workshop and began working in a more jazz-based style. It was on a tour with the Watts group that he first began his academic life.

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Miles. L'autobiografia

Dall'epoca d'oro del bebop alla rivoluzione della fusion, la musica di Miles Davis ha attraversato e segnato l'intera storia del jazz. In questo straordinario libro autobiografico (che la New York Times Book Review ha definito 'un eccezionale contributo alla letteratura jazzistica') Davis racconta l'evoluzione del suo stile, i suoi gruppi, gli album e i concerti, ma anche gli amici, le donne, la famiglia, gli anni bui dell'eroina, i conflitti con i bianchi del mondo della stampa e del potere costituito. Dalla sua voce di volta in volta commossa, indispettita, orgogliosa, nasce una sorta di grandioso film corale in cui fanno da coprotagonisti - e collaborano alla colonna sonora - Charlie Parker e John Coltrane, Dizzy Gil-lespie e Gil Evans, Jimi Hendrix e Prince, e in ruoli carneo troviamo Juliette Greco, Jean-Paul Sartre e addirittura Ronald Reagan. Fitto di aneddoti e informazioni come una grande enciclopedia del jazz, ma animato dal calore di una personalità battagliera che odia i compromessi e vive di sfide, questo libro è una testimonianza fondamentale per la storia della musica, ma insieme un romanzo appassionante e un ritratto 'militante' di mezzo secolo di cultura nera americana. Prefazione di Vittorio Franchini.

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