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    Miles The Autobiography MILES DAVIS with Quincy Troupe a SEEN adn nnd ee wn ngs ogi n anton De PEE. ese meson tite ese Prologue inten, The greatest feeling Lever bad in my ife—with my eothes ‘on~—was when I first heard Diz and Bird together in St. Louis, Missouri, back in 194. Teas eighteen years old and had just grad sted trom Lincoln High School Ie was just scros the Mississippi River in East St Lows Minos ‘When heard Diz and Bird in B's band, I said, “What? What is this!?" Man, that sit was so versble ic was scary. mean, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie "Vardbird” Parker, Buddy Anderson, Gene Am tons, Licky Thompson, an Ar Blakey all together in one band and ‘ott mention B ily Eckoine himself. twas a motherfucker: Man, that shit was ll up in my body. Masi ll up in my body and hats twit T wanted to hear. The way that band was playing munie—that tras all wanted to hear Iwas something. And me up there playing swith ther, Thad already heard about Diz and Bird, was already into their rmusie—especally Dizys, with me being » trumpet player and all But { was also into Bink Soe, {ad one record of Dizz's called ‘Woody n Yon anda record of Jay MeShan' with Bird on eae “Hootie Hes,” Thats where | Best heard Diz and Bird, and | coulda’ believe what they were playing They were so terble. Be files them I had one record of Coleman Hawn, one record of Lester Young nd ne of Duke Ellington with Jans Blanton bass that was a mosherfucker, oo, That was Those were al the records 196 + Miles coca mie, Naima Grubbs, before he decided to meet ws in ei lean wan a ee es fiend at the Bator, Then when we 2th Chapter 10 he group | had with Cairne made me and his legend “hat group cell pt me am he map in he tsi wor, howe reat albus we tale for Presi nd, ater, Cola Bin Recards~CeorgeAvakin ly his way. No on il this ‘group make me omous, but started eo the rnd to making at Sf money. to more money, en sui, than any oer out mi Sian has ever made don't know about that, but that's bat they fey els brought me great eral acai, hrause most the rice relly love hs band. Fo he ost pry, dey Tovey play ingand Trane's to-and they mad everybody in tat hand Philly Joe, Red, Paula fo, ir ‘Wherever we pled the clube were packed overflowing back into the sret, wih long ines of people standing out inthe ein and tno anol a est lw ssi, an, Aad we i nous people were coming everynight o hear wy, Pople ike Frank Sint Dorothy Kalen, Ty Bene eho ftom the stage and sang with my and one ight), Av Garde Dory Dandridge, Lena Horne, Eizabeth Taylor, Marion Brand, Jes ean, Richard Burton, Soar fay Robinson, just to mention afew ‘When this group was geting ll thi rita cli, i nemed that dere wat s new moo coming in the country: ane feng tres groveing among people, back and bie: Martin Lasher King tre leading that hs Boyt down in Montgomery, Albano, and with 198+ Miles hcbiack people were supporting in. ain Aeron bec he aoe eer asin he Metropolitan Opera, Arbur Michell to ack to dance wih major white dance compat aa Bale Moron Bra and Jere Dean were the a enipd they had this rebels suns ae of de aan ging fr tem. Rebel Without a Cause wa i ane a ante people were starting get oases sae toe nce Tom ingen were om ei way ot. ML ia ey ace wo manger, ones pes a aa essai, Now uh we asin and with me rea mes ie httpd make ae aed a being tam tat Tmasoung an god looking dese wel sc eebetios and black noneonornst ing coal and ie ai ee cate and le len, whaeve else 90u wat a an tunes an nore Bt twas plains ack a bended pest gro 0 Ui a reco Fe tt del image: wes playing hor ad eaing the at ne bung, nd that wr Feb, image bade wand wrt Nd Ua toe, ws wy me a he soi our fee Coltrane joined he group ate September ee hein lt fam togethers aging ous eng 18 tg und esr. Pal Chamirs as fr Detei sn ple eve and so for wit wos He @Hamecorin My a eet curs an, bro al is bos doen vey ra eran Dro wah Bs hen we we A Xie tg Sureriand Lng nthe Sot Side Tht wae cote Pecan | hes mt of people share ntading se a gece aad tearhing shoo She bough ot tne ell, ding this ene st wp a8 Yer nas saying with Bis exe, Doris Ssdnat aero tums athe Suerland Hotel 1 ld Peal not Bing so etarondtshe could hat he wanted out joa do tha ic ee, becuse Ici even stand ok at ee: So yee me ustnmet ewe were there, hike was ile eat ke Dor though He probably sured she ee i scp, bing Biel's ore Ly Bat eases fey and tel eee understand what Bird sa i ra Pies ig Hike aol sw net But 1 vst The Autobiography + 199 she had something tht you cold ee om the surtice. Hues hi tres moiprfackern bed Tom Chicago, we went downto play Pracack Alley ia St. Lous ‘Now you know Tas ping to havea good tne here, and weal di. Iowemed lke everbody in Fast St Lous eame over to St Loui Scere pla that week inthe mile of Octer. A ny hoys that | id gone shoo! with showed 0 was Tas happy for ny fay ose ee dng al ight off rags ad clean, lendng a bad ad aking some money. could sce that my father and mother were prow! of me. expecially afer {old them about al the econ dent tht had going wis olin an al. Cita for them wos he big, and eas he gine for me, feo, Anjay everything jst went uly St Louie ras {ered throught the whole oar T think stv ef people hn expected Sonny Hols wo bein the tnd: Ney in St Lash eve ets of Trae, to tern steve dhappoined unt he played. The he just fake every ‘up, though some people still didn’t like him yet mee Byte ine Sonn olin came back frm Lexington to New York, ‘Trane was ixure in the band and had taken over the place re Served for Sony. And Trane playing was so dy then that ton mae Sonny go out and change Rt nle—which was a peat Spc —and go beck to woodshediing, He even went out 00 ‘Brook Beige afew sines—a Ten shat oeat someone al ne lofi private place where he could protic By ihe te we Bo hack fo New York nd opened at the Cafe Bohemia, acl down inthe Vllge on Harrow Srv, the and was ‘lying pest, and Trane wos blowing his tw off Gorge Avakian fro Colunin Records wed o come doen ost every abt to her the bond He loved he bund though that was a rest group tute expec loved the way Coltrane wn plang now. rene ere tld me one night hat Trane "semed a prov tlle in heght td larger in size with each noe that he played” that he “seemed {She pushing each chord os ter mt ‘Bro reat as Trane ves sounding, Pilly ow wt te Be tat vas taking ot ft hapen, Se, he knew evergting 4s glng todos everything {was gg ply: Beant me. fe what ‘eos thinking Sometimes ase lfm not td that ek of Sh mes ut after mes And so tht thin that head wo So after flayed tmething-that rt shor_hecane known the “Phil Ea" and it mode hi fron, ook i ight up to the top ofthe goo Miles drumming world. After fe started doing it with me, es in othe Fede tite their drumier, "Man. ive ee the Pils ik te ny thine” But fe foto space inthe susie for P Atl, Phy Joe was he kindof drummer shat Fee ny music had range Even ater he let | would Bsten fora le of Philly Je A dhe deers had later.) Vy loc unt Red Garland were dhe sae ae, about three yeas “ie an twas Colteae and T were boon in de same year wih aetna tte older, Paul Chambers was he baby in the Rou reeves, ut he was playing Hike he had been around For roar tel sows Rede waving me that Amada Baht Tee Hate bit of Erell Garner, long with his cw shit up Sita So everything was happen Tiicnsst stunning thing that year as dha Colnbia gave me & sto mice for ny fst red with Hem. ps $300.00 every Seite Prestige dn’ want to tse me co Columbia, nt ater they ReeTpucup with me when dr sds want me, 0 Lad about eae contract wth Prestige. Columbia wanted 10 tat seeing it en, so somehow and {don't know what dhe doa Ba Gamage Sabian onsinced Bob Weinstock 10 fet him bein "EShing ein atmos with the agrennent chat Columbia eet release any asi anti after Las Sinise with my eon say nigations to Prestige bythe meantime. F owed Prestige ee ame that wast sve them daring the nex year fi the end, ‘iat ute Trevor for Prestige came out to be five and «half may We stared reoring for Calambia atthe end of October Ie ener ail playing dw tthe Cafe Boeri, bat we eae talee Hse anes uni ater, fer the May 1956 agreement. Catvge thought thx Prestige wa gong 0 release me from my com Canin them, but Roby wasrt even thinking bout that ‘lla leave Presige beewsse they weren't pain se 00 neat hint tthgh F yas wot They ba signed me for rename wa a junkie and had hardy ever given me any ext. (inte wont gor around hat Twas Keaving Bob 10 of guys Aoi that Iwas cold ded to Have bir ike that after he ad see we records wt ne whe nobody else would But Lad ek ahead a start thinking about my future and the way Lam aide turn down the Kind of money Columbia wes offering soa nou Rave he folk Pus it was all ing from have seco tats abot geting the mite man, 50 oy show The Autobiography + 201 ing like what we were going to do for them ia our nex! sessions, Samed Robert Reisner (who hn! once shed for $25 9 vant Dy 202 + Miles were plying if he wasn't going to give me the rest of the money. Whew the promoters heard this chey came on through with he rest of te brea i tat was the kindof shit chat promrers and lub owners did tour mins back in those days, especialy you were Black, But weet we could make money whenever and wherever we played eo dave ts tour demands, Thats why Ua a reputation for being (ee Scat to han. Tstod up for my rights and woul’ et Thee fack me over ed Haro! Lovet handling lt ofthis for me eet ear so ca, ma. He had all those club owners seared of Tn. Hall nesighemed ut 1 of shit for me, and that's bow 1 saad she importance of having sod lawyer you can ust and ‘Giron atany tame. And ro thew on out 've always had one dae tine knocked out this promoter named Dow Friedmanthi ware in 1949 ecause he rat up tne wanting to ine me $100 Tee bene even though we weren't scheduled o goon yet. called Tienes {had Knocked Don out. Harold was areal jive talking lua smatherfucker--so he cold steuighten things out, and he dd seats tine before that {canceled gig in Toronto because the ub Gkmer, who de’ like Phily Joe Jones's plying, wanted! me to Fee inTrane and Paul Chambers were already on thei way ther. So vchom they au there they had no place to psy. Man, they were settee Hut explained my rensons to chem and they understood it wor ight alter ths ineient sn Toronto February or March 1966" thar tad my fest throat operation nd had to disband the aeonp white twas recovering had to have «non-cancerous growth Freee Yury cemered chal been bothering me fora while. After Soca of the hpi ran ito ths guy in the record busines who were iina to convince me todo chix deal During the course of the Teiveution rise my voice #0 make 3 point and fucked py SORT Mau even supposed to talk fr ot least ten days and ere 1 WeSToac only ealking but talking loud, After et incident my viet IRE wher tha hes been with me ever ince, used tobe self efectos about it ut eventually Lust relaxed and went with ‘ce eapponed! to recor agin iv May for Prestige, but in che monte {read forthe fist nei Yong time. tad bought smewnf white Mereedes Beng and moves to S81 Tenth Avenue ¥p Dy Sr Steet. Iwas a nice pad especialy Fora Dchelor It had one Tipe room and nbtehen. Jobin Laws wos ving he buiing then Den Canal and Monte Ki lived right across the bal from mes rats aking ate money by shen, But noc as much asf tog The Autobiography + 203 shouldbe making Dav Brubeck wos making ch mors he tine BT il go ark ra soit Wt ‘one ST eso dwn that | "hind tht sight So sto him ‘Nam Tclemer tne motherfucker nist tis had fl god tht wld othe door trumpet was on way oy Road the a. wh Ir ro methyl oi hey wa ‘see you clean at the Bohemia without your trumpet?” Man, o = ea ee ving ot wih Susan and abut» hunired other women, a li etn ol a races Talor—se dance Ihe ane in 188 tn Le Ale Of ny ind 1 wok seh fn tne to inet she sayy ei cma hea at he Srzujnt never aod fr fog. sj ing my ime ul oh ‘hie domo New York whch he sil she wanted ‘ad seco nh pi 8h Sy ain Fanny "aan Tom's rh) al Camb an To i wa the half seston tat awed Prestige Then Mas er ined my rer band wit Tone, Red ily fo, and Pal ad Sven bch condor Prestige sun oer at ich Van Gls Place in Hackensack New lary remember is session wel be ta anna yin a nt Wl ee hes jn recor ike we wove fying w ihc eT te "ing so hep ar Psion re i have beer opener? ond skng Bob Webster “Vue sett dA art ye ig to dba une over agus The eat month we teed Bak ito th ering ir Can at he ore ae i a Abus gts ye jel more hand wack a Ca Beni from arty spring toate asta Tan played pal howses tvery nigh Wath he mone twas ing nor nay sl tose ‘Sport ene frou tes hat hp ay ck Ard Erte as tisha eee aoe ease Kind of soc ne Vilage got me nt to ae situation with people lntcad of ing sround wot pimp and hotles, ow | found mylar win of wists ova, painters, actors, designer, Hmmakers, dancers {oud my 206 + Miles self hearing about people ke Alen Ginsberg, LeRoi Jones (now ives Barska), Wilhont Barvoughs (bo would write Naked Lanch, ive abot june) and Jack Kerouac Jone Sb, Chiford Brown got killed in a ear acident, long with Richie Powell, the pianist who was Bud Powell’ younger rather, Man. that wos some sad shit Brownie and Richie dying ke that an they were so fucking young: Brownie wasn't even twenty Sk'yeu_Evergune had een raving about this youn trumpet payee ‘sho was playing in and rain Phil, who coud ply Wis sof Thnk the fst tne {heard hin was when he was in Lonel Hamp tons band: and | ke then he as going to be oustanding. He had his owen aya playing aad i he fed ved he would have been something ese. Ihave read in places about me and Brownie not ining lle to get along because of competition between us. That shits no rue. We were both rampet players and we were tying pay the best we could. Brownie was beatiful sweet, hips who Sonu couldnt help but like tobe around. He wes a cleansing poy ‘ho didn't hang ost much, le and T got along real good when we Tin bach other: he respected me a fot and T respected im. We ‘rove running buddies nothing Hike tho, but we did't dishike eat other, rovnie's death really fucked up Mx Roach because fhm and rownie had a great group together and with Richie and Bove dead. Max broke ap the group. I rally tore up Mas head iT dow’ think he fs pled the same since. Him and Brownie ‘were meu fr each other because ofthe wa they bot played eat Fest so they soul fed off each other have alas elt eat great trumpet players need great drummers in order to gether shit off. Know it has always een hat wy Tor ne: Max used 0 tll me ll the {Sntehow be loved plying wth Brownie. His death rally got to Max find he dt pl out of 1 for along time. ‘We were about to finish up our suminertong stand atthe Cafe Boliemia, Atthe end of September. we went back into the studio for Columbia and. recorded "Round. Midnight” and “Sweet Sue {which was arranged by Teo Macero, who would later become ty fader st Columbia) Teo had gorten “Sweet Suo fom Leonard Bernstein, wh had ben trying to fecord jazz album, What Is UTazt an so Teo picked this et from a eonition that Bix Beider Ihecke hal dane L also recorded “AI of You" at his session. So we hd two great ballads-—"AIl of You" and "Round Midnight”—in the can from that session forthe album ‘Round About Midnight ‘Sweet Sue” went nto the albu Base Miles The Autobiography + 205 “Then cut coupleof ne sideman wih group dat called themsetv The Bros Ensemble ofthe Jars and Clases! Misc So tie wes the principal slit on this alla and Cab was the Iabel that we recorded te sons for Th, afew day afer tht sex ‘on, toot Trane, Red Phil oe, a Pl bask its the tao odo in last etons for Prestige Anu we weno oy Van Gl. ‘lr recording eo Hachensac, Ths waste tne wen we Cordeall none long sension™="y Fanny Valentine "M1 Were ‘bel and al thae othe tunes tht appeared tm tne Prete ‘bums caledStaminCookn Workin and Retain Ao those Mb came aut athe ed of October 166 That mes sone peat Isic we deat oth those easton and Tm ea prod tty Butts ended my conteat wth Prestige {was remy to tore on ‘fee hd been around the msc sone fora while, saw what tappened to othrgret mins, Ute Bird, One o tebe age Tanersoed war dat ccs tis dry aes depen upon tw many record you sel how mich money You mate forthe feople who sonra the ny. Yo sod aeat msi, an Itnovaive and inportaot arcs but aod cared Wyo dt ake the tite people who were ln contol some money. The ral money Sees geting o ue aurea of Amerie, ond luna Recirs Served the mainstream ofthe county Prestige dd we ang treat records, but ousie the maine 3 muscan and a an ari, have sway wanted to each as many people ao I could through ny music And Tha Sshatned ofthat Beenie Inver hough that the mus cal ja tres ever meant oreoch just & small rou of peopl, or Become @ Iniscum thing locked under lo ie acter dead tinge that were nee considered arian thigh shold seach say people oi could ike cll poplars andl wy nat? tener Srarone of tone peopl wh though le wa bt he fw ear you, the beer you are, because what you're dings Yoo comples fra lot of people waundersand Ait of ace icons say leat hey felts way, that they woud veo compronise thai art fo recht a whole lac of people: But a scre they want 10 ‘each x many pop a thy ao. Nowe a ot sn ‘Beir nomen not npoton Bt alway thot had So boundaron, no lint hor could prow a gow est ‘lone on ts eretiy. Good musi pod mo ater hat ind tic Ant I ways ated eto Away: Neve thang ‘had any place in music. “~ “a cree beet 206 + Miles Ser nr ve iad cet lof pope mare exioning 0 ve at Tinay doing T never ft that Brease te rus Tas sine becnning popular hat meant that wy pune wa ss rapes tan some that west a popular s mine, Poplar dt sae nea less worthy, ret 1855, Columbia repre ‘Uther oreay my sic could trough 0 reach more ieetntec nt went hrouh hat door whe opened up and Hever Weide tack, Al ever wanted to do as blow my hor aed eeate tin an communicate what Het hr msi Sa yen pine mith Columbia i men more tone but whats watt Wtifsetag paid for wot yo dod geting paid wel? 1 SEEN Behring overs ad har ies an he bles. never oNed ator myself sow vat ely or when was tung Stn hein adnan ose agin. song 98 could get ‘Mladen white wont my own terms, without i ssc out to all of those pep mh woul ave co expat seaihcn'T wos gong to fr wht 1 nov. ea, When u're creating your own shi an, even he sky in the ii. “Gunn tstime.t inet a white women who Uw cal Nes She soon"Tenam nd hele al ge who Ten Maton it @ per pntoueaveriooking Central Pekin the West Eigen met Wertnmgh a back emcee same Cart Lee who worked atthe Cafe Nehwmia She fl is ave wah me. She was ie sw mothetacker, varepuken about wnything and id ake no hit off anyone, and AMeetude me ahh mow of the time she gave me what | ‘rai She wos-o pretty ite tiger fn real senwunus. RING Racarwrem wotan, and se was one ofthe people who realy ep of rs. Yan never worked tho siesta er customers aiay cae rom the st etels of coi, em ery portant me—vhite me Init name won. et fost we me Ute wast important, perf. and rchest en i this counts ‘Tuy rely ied hers hough and afer T gotta Know et, Toul neta! why She was a worn ching amd very intelligent per venta wey sey ines ery ney he kindof woman met ist Fo. Si ald mnertucerin be, passionate ad good tha would Simon make you want vo, She ral loved me and Lever had to ever de w be wid be. She as 000 frend, understood Eafe what fous gine through and what t wanted 10, She Sippurted ne 130 perent. era est fat of tight jms daring the time we were The Autobiography + 207 ‘oether. I was eu on the road doing pick-up gigs and {was stuck semester, call Nancy and tel herd she'd ay, "Well pet the {ack out of there! How much maney do you need?” And whatever | ‘needed, she'd send stright se. ‘Mler we cu those last sides for Prestige in October 1950, 1 took ‘the group back into the Cafe Bohemia and thats where alot of shit ‘ame out between Coltrane and me. Things had been building up for {hwhile. Man, it was drag to see hove bad Trane was eating himself by nov he was eeally strung out on herwia en also drinking ‘Tot He was coming in Inte and nodding on the stage. One night ‘ot so mad with him tha! lapped him upside his hea and punched him in the stomach in the dressing room. Thelonious Monk was there that ight, be had come ack tothe dressing room t0 say hello and ‘sw what I did to Trane, When he saw that Trane did do nating Dut jst sit there ike a big baby, Monk got hot under the collar: He told Trane, "Man, as much as you play on sexophione, you don't have to take nothing like that: you can come and py with me anytime ‘And you, Miles, you shoulda e hing on hin like that. Towns so mad | did't care what the fuck Mook wa aking abou, Ibccmute inthe Bist place, it wasn't none of his busines. Bre! Trane ‘that ight, and he went back to Philadelphia to try and kiek his habit. [el Bd about letting him go, but Teoulda't see what ese T cou Ihave done under the circumstances. Treplaced Coltrane with Sonny Rollins and Hnished ou the week sat the Hohemia, Right after we closed broke wp the band and ‘aught plane ad went siraight ts Pars where [ad been iid to headlie, along with Lester Young. an allstar group of musicians that included the Modern Jaze Quartet (Perey Heath, Jhi Les {Connie Kay, and Mit Jackson) and a lot of Prench and German ‘mucins. We played Amsterdam. Zurich, Switerand, Freiburg ‘Germany (a city inthe Block Forest, and Pris Tn Paris | hooked up again with ete Greco, who was real big cabaret and movie star by now, Atfirst she was ate apprehensive ‘tbout seeing me~because of the way Thal acted when saw hee the las time in New York —but when I explained why Id that, she forgave ae and we got along real well just ike dhe fst ine. And of ours, Llso got together with Jean-Paul Sartre and we had a great tie jst siting around talking in their borne or at an tse ee ‘We'd use a combination of broken French, broken English, nd gn language ‘After we fad layed our concert in Pais ot of the musicians 208 + Miles ee We were all i sce Bu te bad sae Mant a jp er iy pln Be a dae seiked ors mont elo ra sake he be what had happened, See, by this time in his hie, he was very sick ih sche ne wesiehne back overt nhere we were all siting a, everyone ro ars a el one hr ike tat. to embarassed SeMieilag Sat oe ea fl ste There was complete ener Teele cd hove beat feather hit the foo rea bined fi Baad i song pa paved yo Lows suk be js a The Autobiography + 209 who ever ved, nti he gor beat up and sent 1 Bellow. Now tras over therein Pats ina foreign country, among people sho ‘night not have understood what ha happened to Budl—and mash Aida care—and! thought he might have been junta dren bn "That was ad sight, mn, seeing and hearing Bud ke hat. never forget tas long sive Tek to New York n December 1856 ad got the band back il we went on two-month road trip. We went to Phi him Chicago, St Loan, Lon Angeles, ad San Francisco, where tne played the Blackhawk fortwo weeks ‘But by the fall of 5, Trane (who was back in dhe bund) and Philly Joe hal really started to get on my nerves with thei junkie shit ‘showing up late, sometimes not at all. Here was Trae up an the Dbundstand sometimes nodding out, high off heroin. By this tine ‘Trane and his wife, Naima, had moved from Philly to New York, 0 Ihe ws getting some strong shit hat he aoe geting in Philly ‘Alter he vel a New York his Habit got worse, ad eal quick, to [didnt have no mora hing about Trane aul alla them shooting hecoin, because UT gone through that and | knew that st was sickness that was hard to get rio So {did't give them no are? tout doing it. What Iii stare to get om them about was coming late tnd nodding up on dhe bandstand 1 Tokd them | coun’ tolerate ‘hat Here we were getting $1250 4 week when Coltrane came back ino the band-—and these guys are neing ut om stage, {could falford that hind of shit! People would ee them novding and think I ‘vas a juke again: you know, guilt by asortion, And Tas clean fa whistle, except fe sometimes when T would snort itl eoke tres going to the gym. keeping msi in god condition, at deiking Inch, taking care of business. Iwas taking to them trig to get them to understand what they were ding a the group and to them Selves {told Trane that record produces had been comin around Tstening to hin thinking about giving him a contract. ur when they sw him ap there nodding nal cbt they held off. He seemed to Understand what I wus talking about but he kept right om shooting teva and drinking ikea fh Ftd been some eter player {would have Ged him agua the fst couple of ines, But I loved Trane, t really aid altgh we fever did hangout too mel like Philly Joe and Tid. Trane was & Theat person, rel sweet hid of gy. april, all uf that So 210 + Miles im 10. ell oul’ help loving im ad caring abou His Ler ar making more money than he had ever ade i is ie Sse ae thi owt wa bt mkt ster wl that Phil oe ea ae ey eet bd eter NC By hen Feeney that shi i ok at how be was atin DeUhaNe wos sir he amily wold vas pom seem a en i Ba hinge pe worse, Sometimes Frail be ask on the banstand be woud wives sa pls lads gegen oso ng ge hte ene the sage ml gO Pa seers esi a happeses. Hel some pes ‘mene one ine ten Ply oe and nee i ut oe oat tg ck up desk in 1964. cry 3. wold be ch we in al rou, They ay $00 a «Tw cay ths time, We were out fy Clevean Tint ane were eying ge ack to New York Now Joe done Jot up two or three hours before, so the shit is starting to wear of 4 ie St ge uy i plane sks he lease Westin sng up thre cng ot he mom oe EE te wut ek eo slight hen a eon Serial hn purple ila bck then wich TRUIGaehewe won' ane eng mane buy the kes Fn tng note ht this ike rms done id ‘Oi Meter bi {ook t Philly Joe md he sees he bill an kr ‘ * achat F'm thinking. So he starts telling the girl how fine and sy che i ann that we were musicians and would like to write & er shor becuse she mass nce. so could she plesbe ve ws Festina woman started soiling from car ear and id Is awh hand er hts, Sh di ve ot sans yan owe ho te 50 reste nickate und when we gto catch dhe plane Pils inna ang wil takes gt back tn New Yor she can ee ope und ut he wont eu eke Buon the way SO Yti tt plane was routed a Washing D.C. ease New YS Ww yn on, Piy's throwin up the plane's Bethan Once we get to Washington, sme hg: New York seine Sgt ein and weeping sot cach Sees eet Pil hrows some tn D.C. so ow he's Deaging Ire stop by this e's bose. Now. The Autobiography + 211 ‘motherfucker. But e's go his drum cases with hin and het sick row 0 pick them up, So I ry to carry my shit md hs shit otto «ab and fuck up my wes. ln the meantime, he's heen to the bat room to throw up again. We cate cab, po over to this gus inthe snow, and have to wat for him because He was ot, Philly Is ‘throwing up inthis dealer's bathroom: his wife, who knew Phil ua let usin, Finally the gy coms back nd Phily pets of Thad to ‘ay forthe stuff. always kept an extra stash for emergencies, but | tver lt Philly Knaw about, because he would ry ta beg me out of Finally, we caught the tai back to New Yark By this sime L was ‘ot only mad but my wrist fle hike it was broken. When wee {ting ready to eave each other. Utell Philly, "Man, don't you ever ‘do that shit to me agin, you hear eat Fm saying?” Ig ny fingers all up in his ace and my eyes are bulging out, standing out thee Front of Penn Station, inal hat sto So Philly said to me with this wounded look all over his face “Miles, why you talking to me lke that? Man, Fm your brother. love you. You know how iis when somebody ges sick! Plas, on top ‘ofthat you shouldn't be angey atte, you should be angry tal ths ‘snow, man, “cause thats seat caused allthis bls inthe fst place. So, man, get angry with God, instend of me, because Un your brother, who loves ou ‘When heard that almost ded laughing that shit was so fanny — so quick and hip. But still weet home madder than motherfucker and swore that was going to try ta hex out of that kind of ballot {rom then on, “This kind of thing happened later on, when we were on tour with ‘the band used to goto the hotel t pick up Philly Joe an hour ery just ost in the lobby and watch him eheck out of hotels. He would says try to talk the front desk clerk down on is il ana hat used to be some funny shit to watch He might tell the clerk thatthe ‘mattress was burt and that i was ke tht when he gt there. So the clerk would say something like, “That might be so, but what shout the woman you had up there? ‘Then Jor would say, "She didn’t stay and anyway be didn’t come ‘But she called you" the clerk might say, "She called me to get in touch with Me. ready lft your establishment” umber, wh has gig + Miles “They woul yo back nd forth ke that: “The shower dit work for three days or “aot of four lights didn't work—anything Buc he would always end up saving twenty to forty dollars Tor 8 tveek's stay and he'd we that money 0 0 by dope ‘She ime. think n'Son Fn that hdd work, Fe across the street at a coffee place aa see Philly Joe throwing his bags and Shiu the side window tothe alle. Them he goes back dow hain and se hin talking tothe desk elev stand outside dhe door ind eur the desk eek teling it that he's gong to have to pay Ipoeuse he id this sae abt to hia before. and that he's ping (0 fo up and lock Jie" staff i his room until he pas So 9898 Te” that he's gong to get the mae from een of his cross town, He walks at ofthe hotel ooking ll dignant while dhe clerk fons up tock the rou. When Jo gets outside he runs around {hen of the ote, picks ap sg, and walks aay lughing ke Utinotheracker Philly oe was. bitch. fed been a fae and white, he would have been present af the United States, because in order {0 get there you got talk fast aad curry a1 of allshi with you: Philly ‘od all an a to spare But the shit wth Caleune wasn’ fanny Uke twas wih Phil J You could laugh st do's shit but wih Trane it was geting to be Iuthete He'd be playing in elthes that looked ike he had slept in| them foray, all wrinkle up aul dry and shit. Then he'd be Standing up there when he wast soddiog—peking his nose and SImetimes eating And he wasn't nto women ke me and Philly trove: Hema just into pling, ws ll the wa into musi, and ia Sroman was sting right ifr of ian naked, he would have Shen seen her, That's how much concentration he had when he pled Now Philly oe wos a laies’ man. He was Bashy and hip, and Iehen we were upom sage, he got almost as much attention i Tie was cuaracter, but Trane was just the opposite al he ved for vast ply sie: That was Tht there was nore depressing me on tis rip than Pilly Joe and Trae ge has taking $1,230 8 week an that just wasn't ge support nyse and the bund, [vas taking $400 a week for frysel out ofthat sal viding the rest with che group, On this i, atthe bar, averdnwwing the money they nad coming Tinally took Phily out of he Band Think he must have ced nro $30,000), The Autobiography + 213 Here Iam playing and don't have nothing to show fort. Going ino debt and yet the labs are eroded ines wrapped around the block? So jst si o myself fuck itty don't pay me what | want ot making it anymore. Lealled up Jack Whittemore aad told bin that T couldn't be playing anymore for $1,250 week. He sid ‘Okay, but you got to doit thin time because you signed the von trac.” He was right about that, but I wet going to be doing ino more. After this tld him I had to gt $2,300 a week an he si he'd See what he could do, We got it And $2.500'9 work was high fora black band. A oto the club oveners go nad ate for that ut they gave me what I wanted ‘When it came to running bar tbs, Paul Chambers was the worst 1a give him his money and then I wld bring up his bar tab, and he ‘wouldn't want to pay: One time Thad to hit him in the mouth, he ‘made me So mad, Paul was areal ice gy, but he was just imate, One time in Rochester, New York, the ci we were playing wasn't ‘making alot of money. I knew the warn who ran it and she had ‘been nice to me Defure 30 tad her she didn't have to pay ae 1 gave her the money back because I wasn't hurting for bread bt told hr she hed to pay everyone ose, and she di used to do shit ike that sometimes if the house wasn't making no money and if the person had been good w me. Anyway, on this trip to ochester, Paul {s drinking zombies. Lask him, "Why do you drink shit ike that? ‘Why you drink so much, Pal? ‘And he says, "AW. man, Tan drink all want. can drink ‘these and it would bother me. “Drink ‘em and pay for them,” [told him. And he ai “Okay.” So he diaks about five or si of them and sys, "See, bother me” After this we went to spaghetti place to eat, Paul and of fe, thas why Sol'm talking wo Philly Joe and all of sudden | heu this crashing sound and look around! and Paul's whale head bad fallen face frst Into the spaghet hot seuce and everthing, Those zombies had bit him in the rain. The motherfucker was out cold. le had shot up ope and drank all them zombies an he couldn’ take it (That's how he ied! in 1969; drugs and too mack drinking and doing every thing to excess, and he wasn't bt in his early thirties) ‘Another line we were plying in Quebec, Cua, and they had 214s Miles tus oma variety show, Pail was drunk and goes up 10 dese real old oite women} mean, rea! old—and say, "What are you gilt “Quinoa afer the sow?” They got mad and went to dhe owe: saree othe owner an se, “My man as obsiously in the wrong. Rd fling this Kind of place-a variety show, at what really want ae Nie don't we ell iis ght naw: you pay us wha you owe hd weil ewe He goed Bat Jo's geting ick up there any eitetuse there ain't no her around. His hit ra out and 0 Ty loc got mone. We got plane tickets hut we count leave tettase Guatee was snowed and Laid have enough money 10 bus eveesady tain tickets, Soi ealled my giifriend Nancy and she enue mney that L ned igh ay ‘By etme we gt back co New York in March 1957, dhe shit had esl hit the fans and 30 1 Bally fred Tea again ad lao fed Pily for. Trane went to play dh Monk at she Five Spot and Philly Jit loved around, because By no he was a “sar” 1 replaced sree ci Sonny Rollins nin and brought in Art Taylor on drums [eonas ard for me to fre Trane agai, but it was even harder to Lt Paty Joe yo Because we were best friends and had been through & Tot tgeter, But the wy Usa it id havea bose. ‘During the fine to weeks at the Cafe Boheria, before U fred Trane and Philly Joe, something happened that {ail remember Henry, Keun Dorhann the trumpet player, eame in one night and ke ine if he could sit in wth the an. Kenny was hell of (ahmperplayer-casest spe. all his on 1 liked his fone and voice ‘inde way Feally creative, imaginative, an ards on that how, He ante ge al dhe evedit he deserved. Now. don’ let jest anybody sit Tosi y band. You've got to kaow how to play, and Kenny could thay hess off Phas. hd Kren fifo ime. Anyway the place ARaS paces! that night ike feaways was back in those days After U Through playing intrdced Kenn, eho came up and played ‘face a masherfucker, Just Kicked whatever [had played ight out Arama’ head. So twas als hel, eeause nobody kes fr “Shaner to come on thei gig and show them up. Jackie McLean was sine audience and sot went up him and asked hi, “Soe nt dd sun Tike? Thaw fackie loves me, and he faves the way I play, 80 be ait joing to pally Tog, He looked straight inthe exe and sai ‘ion onight Kenny is playing so beautiful you sound ike anim tution of yoursel.” The Autobiography + 215 Man, ws ied wh ear ha ja nt ne wit seying anything to nob wes the lst Set {Ua saying ating tse. ash abou that beta Te gt ao of pend wen ha ket Ke {she was leaving he had thw shieting rin om hs ace mt was ‘alhing lke he wanton fetal He knew wi had gone down ten if eople nthe euience dint Me Krew anew wha ea ‘happened. : lies ib ae ako he gure he oa 0 0 So tal over pin bse ie thas plying oth ge shipped eit tn sin tn et i iy a hr! wet a st eke is smatherucking ass. See he sgh tore tha eying to ply shetty lym wa om tl comfort le. re knew that's what I was doing, But I came back on his ts the next ght an he din’ cven Kau wn nthe. 18 inc hea hap pl thse day pope sy tctou pies nm sean cms you win atid somes you lve, ter yo wet ‘hough witha great player ike Kes, yn bad ose sean ‘out of that. You had to have picked up something or you we " ‘ready to learn about music, even if sometinves i aca sna In May 1957 T wont back ino the stato wi recoded Mier Aad eas ret eperonce mrking ups with Gil Git and Thad seen eachother acasonally after we made Furth oft Mra we ta sot geting aero an oa taain and we came up withthe concep forthe ste ‘eas loved orting wit Cl bese he ws so me tious and create and I trusted hi suka rangement a pletely. We had sivays beens grea mses tam an [reall Boslind i eae senare ae Miles Ahead: Giland I were some. ing special together musially We wd 9 hg band thi tne Gumbo and he est mere nly suo ms on ts da Later after Miles ead came ut, Diy aby onda see me and asked me for another copy of the record hecause he said id Piyed his so mache had worn tin he we hi was the gett.” Man that was on ofthe greatest compliments Tye ever hid. for someone like Dizy to Rewer Dizey to sy that bout something 216+ Miles tite wa ecoring Mies Ahead wa working at he Cae san ct Sony Hatin. on tess Arar on drums, Pl tite as an Re Cae pit Then we lye Coat meal vr he a Cone ad the Midwest Bt er hata Ser Yorke Loved dw to the Five Spa “estar Sens by he ine Tee bad ike reel tary thea soying ahs mothers oe dw ry St mabe wes posing set ning od with Monk (hat Mink'mar a some) Monk at el sal rou Le Wie Warton scant Shadow Who drums Trane wee dearer oni for ons mile bene othe spece at Meet banned i pal tt pace ith al chem sere he mas pling the. Ie ro fh for See it eke is htt sa he was twin pearly Sr area tec aans ved Sor ls hy band Pe rial wasnt the ume fee a when Mil ton Ply So tl i Sear et bn change st Sy ifr i wm rip tute an amen el st Cate Bae, A Tae sree ewe the way ly lve. But Ae 0 rea vate aan tasting ogo owt tl a olay SES? atout hk the mn paste ota Tee tings es ng rund ang so eck bal te esa xh know sat wads a cl ee nt we iican hs mes Died Nets an bean ew det eee een Imad ta tel somebody something Tas o nga te Staats on ora cop days, hen y the ie ce an sing ypc. The cen poche ih see tink taro Beas ou Carne were hare night ft they were alway there) Phas ll of Art's uptown boys Fa come en to ar him, The set started ane after 1 nished wel Tato eh nent fo Ae sock yma, th my trumpet tucked ce mar isting, ike Usa dd giving tn some sagges fs, He wrt ying ne iy ateton. He's nervous and his boys leo inthe one Bt | don’ eae about that shit ease E want Tm ty right an not ov Tot om the sock ema ke he's bee thane Sol say something ese to hin about the soek and he ives me {he ued you Miles, gel my back lok! So Tsay to him unde fh breath Aw. tnxherfackers dont you know bow Philly makes that gods break The Autoblography + 217 Ar got so mad, he stopped playing right in the mide of the tmber, got up from the dram, walked off dhe stage, went ito the bck, and ater, after the set was over, went back and paced up his trams anid left. Everybody was sprechles, including me. Bat the ext night I had Jiminy Cobb take hs place, ad Arta! have never talked about what happened there exer since. We have never sven mentioned it and Ihave seen him fot since then Liter on that week o the next, ied Red Garland ol bro ‘Tommy Flanagan on pian. noke! Pilly to come hacks at! es and then I replaced Sonny ich Bobby Jaxpar, a saxophonist fro Belgium veho was married to my old itend Blossom Dearie 1 had ‘shed Trane 1 rejoin the band, but he hal ume commitments with Monk and couldn't leave at the tine. had ao een talking 0 Cannonball Adderley, who was back in New York, abot jing tie sroup the had been leading = group all summer with his eornee playing brother, Nat) but he coulda do erat then, although he ‘thought he could do it in Octaber. So had to go ith Bobby fspar ‘nil could get Cannonball: Bobby was avery gol musi, bu he jst wasnt the right guy. When Cannonball sid he was Fey, hired him in October an et Hai go "Thad this idea in my head of expanding the group feom a quintet to. sextet with Trane and Cannonball on snopes, Man, Ful {vst hear that music my head and 1 kaew that f gti tgeti i ‘would be a motherfucker. I wasnt ready to happen ye, but a feeling that would happen real soon, In the meantime. I tour around withthe group Thad, with Cannonball lo. in tou ale daze for Moderns. think lasted for about a month, an we close witha lot of other groups at Carnegie Hal ‘Thon I went to Pans again to play ay & guest soloist for w fee weeks, And it was during this tip that met the French fmaker Louis Malle through Juliette Gres. He tld me he ha always love ‘my music and that he wanted eto write the musical sear ois ‘new film, L’Ascenseur pour !Eehafaud (Elevator tothe allows Frantic, it was eae in Ameria; Lift tothe Seafold in Breas, greed todo it anit was great learning experience because | had never writen a music score fora lm before” two ook at the shes ofthe flm and get musical ideas to write down, Since i was ‘bout u murder and was supposed tu be a suspense munis fused {his old, very gloomy. dark bullding where I had he musi pay hough it would give the music atmosphere and itd. Fveryone loved what Tid withthe musie-on tha it, ter the musi sure 218 + Miles was released on the Columbia album that had “Green Dolphin Street” om called Jas Track ‘While was in Paris writing the music for Males fl, 1 was playing at dhe Club St Germain, with Kenny Clarke om drums, Pierre Michelot on bass, Harney Wilen om saxophone. and René Urtreger {oe plano. remeber ths gig because a fo of French cites got ad Shen | woul’ alk from she bandstand nd introduce tunes tke ‘verge else did because thought the mise spake forse They fought Iwas arrogant and snubbing them. They were used 0 all hse black musicians wo came over there grising and sratching typon stage. There es only one cote who undcrtood what Twas ‘doe hard on me a that was André Hower Iwas one of the best music erties Iba eae across [Anyway nae of thats bothered me nd ust kept on doing what {as ding Tei’ yen to disur the penple who came to listen becouse th cub was jar pached every nh Tawa lo of Jaliete and {shank tas on this ep that we deed wwe mere nays ging to be jst vers and pret friends Her career ‘havin France, and she loved being there, wile my shit was happen- Ing in the States, And while Uda’ lve being sm Amerie al the time, never thought about moving overt Pri realy loved Pars ‘bu tToved tos, because | did't chink the musi eal of would happen forme over there, Pls, the scans who moved over dere eemed ne to lve seth, wn energy edge hat Bing in| the States gave them, Edo kro, at thnk has something 1 do vith being surranded by ular that you Kno. that you ca fel, hat yo come st of FT Tv Pas could jst go ad eae Same great hives, oF people like Monk and Trane and Duke and SSoichme every nightie T cou in New York. And although dere wrere god, Hasialy trained ausiciane in Paris, they stl didnt Ther the msc ike wn American rican di. could ie in Pats forall thowe reasons, nd uette understo ‘When fot back to Nevw Yorkin December 1957, Las ready to move forward with ny amsc agin, Fasked Red to come back, und hed, Whe heard Monk's pga the Five Spot wes ending, Lealled “Trane an tld hitn | wanted him back, and he sad, "Okey." Man, hen this happened, I knee some real great musical shit was about to go down el feet tin my bones. Ard it happened. K went al the way down Chapter 11 ost of what had ein 8 ad mon i ot tly Bir ofthe Ct a Modern Jae Giants cane const to what | wanted toda og tet 220 + Miles shat mos icin py wy to mach 9 fou pa twit i Trane becasue so got an ved [uch hn ly) But a ear one ie ha ear i ee tien lower esters, ands dt Clan, We had do speach uted fr at we al ese for oUF or oes Tete the mai is ew prop woul ply be ee, more nal more Afan or Eater altos Wester, [wanted her 0 beyond hemos Se you put musa a place wher he Fist do someting diferent rm what he dos al eine hn han ttt he's ot tothink leroy oder odo tHe wi ac hisimuginaton, be sore eesti, more innovative Bes Ita tke more eek.’ sopay ane what he Knows fa boven hat at mt ead to mh ake Rabe dhe place where Hes ben plain al aang othe new pave here Ed ligt swan ote tet place he ig ad een {Bove tt So hes bet be fee, wl expect ia iret, state ant Know soning diferent coming stow. ¥e aways Atte musicians n'y band play what thes know and then play Shove tha Because then anything cam happen. and that’s where Wort ad mnie happen "ther yo hneto emer sn th wan Deserber {Wo nt December 194, and things were eiferent sounds were ‘tec, pople dt hear thing he saa hey Hoard Back the ts nee tht way very te aso ste and stat ied am Di id wo he soe for that io—atd Has eat Burrow it was tine fr somethig ier a amp pane the ay mais ae somapace ator ferent ncw pace, forward ti you wna could wat for ws to tr plying together soe vo poe hat each san wo bing 1 he ms eves to ftening each others voices that mis know ee Shee neh an wens sya aes le free Reng tn eetused one anter—tha> wy Te alas taken ew Ban tn he ra for ae before ake then noe sti, "hv ent hr th warding ets to erp wit we ey ba ong wih Trane Red, or, Pu i ee ae ade bes hefner at mire te eh wSvthine ou Tet thar Catnonbals bigs toot alto 5 “ShuaseTrane’sharmosie, choral way of playing his more freeform Mprouch, woul erate sew kind of felng anew kind of ound, The Autoblography + 921 because Coltrane's voice was already going in 8 new direction: And then F wanted to give that musical mixture more spate using the concepts I had picked up from what Ahmad Jaa di, | heard my Arumpet voice kind of tating ever and cutting through al of thie rmintre, and elt that if we could dit right the must woul have all the tension up in it {In this group, everybody had played together for over twa years, ‘xcept for Cannonball. Butane voice can change the enlte ay band hears itself can change the whole rithm, the whole timing of ' band, even if everyone ese hd een playing together forever ls {whole new thing when you add or take away a vice We went out on tour i late December 1957, around Christmas ‘ime, starting a the Sutherland Lounge in Chicago ve ales eed to be in Chicago around Christmas so I can get together with family. My brother Vernon comes up from East St Lui a shildren who liven St Louisa gt together at my sister Dot's house in Chicago, alongwith some guss I grew ap with who ive in Cheng. Weld all get together and drink and eat for 8 week or so. You now, have'a ball. When we fst opened withthe sextet the Sutherland, my old high school friend Darnell, who sl to ply Piano drove his ety bus all the way from Peoria, ini, al pare ‘outside our hotel for theve days! Every tine we woul play Chirag he would come on up. MY friend Boone used to get te the brat barbecue in town, because being fem East St Lois, which is & barbecue town, Ive always been a freak for gon barberwe and hie ling, to. ¥ really ove great black caoking, collard greens and ca died yams and cornbread and blackved pons and southern feed ‘hicken—all of t—and with some bad ot sauce off the side ight from the begining the tour ws just a mosherfucker: BANG We hit and tore up the fucking place snd tha’ whe knew it was sping to be something ese. That frst night in Chicago, we stared OF laying the blues, an Cannonball was just standin there with his ‘mouth open, listening to Trane playing tis wnyout shit ona bus, e asked me what we were playing al tld hin, “the bes." He says, “Well. nin't never heard no blues played like that! See, 0 matter how many ties he played a tune, Trane woul nays find ways to pay it eiferen every night. [od Trane after the sett lake Cannonball in the kitchen nnd show him what he ws dng He ‘id, but we ha substitute 9 many things inthe weve bar mode eee + Miles that if y08 weren' latening when it started off, where the soloist began, then when you did wart to pay attention, you might not know ‘eat ad happened, Cannonball had wld me that what Trane was Paying sounded ike the bes, that really wash was some- Shing else altogether. Tha just faked hin up because Cannonball sw blues player. But Cannonball caught on quick, just Uke snapping your fingers, that’s how fat he picked ings up He wis ke a sponge: he ust iivorbed everything. With the bles Uhing T should have tld him that as jst the way Trane played-—far out—because Cannonball ‘nas the only one in dhe grogp who hada’ played with him. But once Cannonball caught onto what was happening, he was right in there playing his aval He and Trane were very diferent players, but Fr of them were great When Cannonball fst ine! the band verge liked him right away beeauve he ws this big jovial gu, ‘Sveys lnughing and real nie, genteman, and start as they come, "Mer he'd eon seth ws a whale und then after Trane came back, the sound of the bund ast kept geting thicker and thicker, almost Tike when a woman uses to much makeup Bocas of the chemistry lind te way peuple were paying off each other everybody stated playing above what they knew almost from the begining, Trane {rowld play some weird reat st and Canmonball would take in| The thertivection: andl wall put my sound eight down the mile Or lot over ston whatever, And thew Tight play real fast oF Ihuzzzer, like Fred Webster. This would take Trane someplace tise and he wand come back with othr diferent shit and so would Cannonball, And then Paal's anchoring ll this creative tension be tore the harms and Red's laying down his ight ip shit and Philly Soe pushing everyting with that hip shi he was playing and then Sending us all of agin with therm hiprde-dip, sek rim shots tha vere a0 ad, them "Philly leks” Man, that was too hip and bad Eversbory was lying al Linds of slick sit on everyone. And Twas telling them things ike, “Don't eave that Punt the last beat. You'l be able to play the move five beats mare than you would ifyou would eave it in ike four bets. You eave ion the lst bar you know, and sou accent the bar." And they would ste. 1 would be sicker than ik, “Trane was the loudest, fastest saxophonist Ive ever beard. He ould play real fat and seal loud at the name tine and that’s ery ‘iieulvo do, Because when mont players play loud, they lack them- The Autoblogrophy + 225 sets 1 cen man saxophonists get messed up tring ‘hat Bat Trane could do Wand hes phonon eee {as posted when he pt that horn hs math He os ee sionate—flerceand yet so quiet an gentle pei quiet and gentle when he wasn’ plying. owe i ave hi oud, So ln eel hoa to the dentist to get the tooth put in, 1 almost panicke rn {sed him if he could postpone is devia spoitme Neg said, “naw, man, Vcan't make the rehearsal Tim woing to the dene Sst ke hi wha ino eoplcement he wat ape snow he’s fucked himself up. But when he then runs ik nc ale ays dic, mar about s motherfucker being releved “ hart ur don lay the ike hey areal he tine, you kao ut in the middle sometimes and don't forget that them up i hrs So hme yom gece eae things to ply in two brs,” He would st there hiss wae ope, soaking up everything. Trane was an innovator; and you have eg {height hing wo people ke dat Thay al him obese a {he mi, besune tha’ the wa his ho worked ene ie ng 0 be challenged, and iyo brought the sith we ‘wasn't going to listen. But Trane was the only player who could soy s2eDidy ese was hanging cue would pret lor hoe ang in California when he it in Trane could ply eee + Miles Paris, a antique dealer, it had an effet on his senor playing, Before seek hat sapeano, he as stil playing Uke Dexter Gordon, Edie Tecjaw’ Dain, Sonny Set an Bist After he go hat hor, his ote changed. After tat, he da’ sound ike nobody but himself Tie found at that he eoul play lighter and faster nthe soprano than he cil om the tenor. And turned bm on, because fhe could do the things on tenor that he could oto, because o pane straight horn, and since he kel the lower fester, he Jon! he could als thisk winder beter withthe soprano than be pul wih the tenor, When he played the soprano after awhile i “Shunde last ike a human vee wang. ‘uterus iked Trane we dda’ hang out mac once we et tae hardnand because we had diferent stsles. Before, it was Be ‘Mine he wasp ino heroin, an Thad jos come out a that Now, Frese coun ad did't hardly ever hangout, but would go back (0 His hel roo to prt, He bad alway heen serious alow music tind aways practiced lot, But non H was almost like be was 00 sense ied af mission. He sed otal me that he had messed up tou ha wasted foo much tne an not given enough attention {Ghat own personal ile, his fama, and, mot of al, to his playin Solwewas only really eoncerned about playing his music and growing ea musician, Tha’ all he thought about He couldnt be seduced {ya woman's beauty because he had already been seduced by the ouy of mie and he was loyal to his wie. Whereas for me after the music was through, (eas tthe door seing what pretty tay ‘nix ing tobe with that night Cannonball and I would i and talk id ang out sometinyes shen Twat with some wom Pily and ioe ul rend, bute wats avays ranting down that dope him find Paul and Ted, Bt we were all clase and everybody got along ‘eal a together ‘Back in New York, Cannonball, who had signed « deal to do a econ for Blue Note asked me t play nthe date whieh Iida a {hor The record was ealled "Something Fle” and was very nie. ‘Bante to get my group int che studi. and in Apel we recorded "ply Boy.© "Straight, No Chaser,” "Milestones," “Pwo tase Mi Sid’. Awad.” and “De. dackle™ (sted as "Dr. JekyI") for the “ium Milestones on Columbis.# played piano on “Sid's Ahead” Foca Red got mad at me when te eg to el in something find left: But {lve the way the bad sounded! on this record and new that wc had something special. 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