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 . . .’

Quincy Troupe is an American poet, editor, journalist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He is best known as the biographer of jazz musician, Miles Davis. Miles Davis (1926-1991) was one of the most innovative and influential jazz musicians of the twentieth century. His autobiography is published by Picador.