Quincy Troupe Quotes

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Take it to the hoop "magic" johnson,
take the ball dazzling down the open lane
herk & jerk & raise your six foot nine inch
frame into the air sweating screams of your neon name.

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So get on up & fly away duke, bebop
slant & fade on in, strut, dance swing, riff
& float & stroke those tickling, gri-gri keys
those satin ladies taking the A train up
to harlem, those gri-gri keys
of birmingham, breakdown
sophisticated ladies, mood indigo
get on up & strut across, gri-gri
raise on up, your band's waiting

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Up from new Orleans, on riverboats
from the gulf of mexico, memory carries
sweet legacy of niggerland speech, brown tongue bluesing
muddy water
underbottomed spirits crawling, nightmares
of shipwrecked bones, bones gone home to stone, to stone
bones gone home to stone, to stone
riverbottomed, underbellied spirits

Quincy Troupe

Quincy Troupe

Quincy Troupe

Born: July 22, 1939 (age 85)

Bio: Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr. is an American poet, editor, journalist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, California. He is best known as the biographer of Miles Davis, the jazz musician.

Known for:

Miles and Me (2000)
Miles, the autobiography (1989)
The Architecture of Language (2006)
Transcircularities (2002)
Errançities: Poems (2012)

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