Miles' validation of himself was enough. Quincy Troupe co-authored Miles' autobiography Miles Davis. He grew up, as Davis did, in East St. Louis, Ill., a mostly-black town just outside St. Louis.

Mtume, known for his ten-finger, tabla-influenced method of playing the congas, was a percussionist with Miles Davis ... black characters — the pimp, the Panther, the prostitute. There's a white ...

When Miles Davis began recording new music again ... and that organ thing. It’s a black thing and not a white thing. Prince is like the church to gay guys. He’s the music of the people who ...

Miles Davis ... you were white. If you learn something from theory, you would loose the feeling in your playing. I wanted to see what was going on in all of music. - [Man In Black cap] Julliard ...

He was the epitome of a “black man who takes no shit,” Kernodle notes. Drummer Lenny White says “musicians didn’t want to play with Miles Davis, they wanted to be him.” Miles didn’t ...

But then, again, I was surrounded by white folks and I have learned that when that happens, if you’re black, there is no justice. None. – an excerpt from ‘Miles’, by Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe.

the Black Panthers and Marcus Garvey. To him, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool goes beyond just being a biography of a musician. “It's a film about the latter half of the 20th century,” he ...