“For
as long as I can remember, I heard stories about Miles coming over to
my grandmother’s house where my uncle Richard Frier lived.
He was friends with Bud Powell and Walter Bishop Jr., two of
bebop’s great piano players. Richard played trumpet. I
don’t know how good he was."
"I think music was just as important as drugs, during that
period.
Many of the cats, including Miles, were shooting heroin.”