NIGGER'S WHORE

(sequência daqui)

Cannonball Adderley com Miles Davis - " Autumn Leaves"

"Miles Davis's dark Italian suits and his European sports cars made him stand out from the generality of jazz musicians of the 1950s. No doubt his visit to Paris in May 1949, when he met Sartre and Boris Vian and fell in love with Juliette Gréco, had broadened his cultural horizons as well as his fashion sense. Two thousand fans turned up to hear him play at the Salle Pleyel in the Faubourg Saint-Honoré. (...)

That was the night Davis met Gréco, then making a name for herself in the clubs of the Left Bank, and through her the leading existentialists of the time. (...) More than half a century later, Gréco remembered: 'Sartre said to Miles: «Why don't you and Julie get married?» Miles replied: «Because I love her too much to make her unhappy». At that moment it wasn't a matter of infidelity [Davis was already married with two children] or of behaving like a Don Juan; it was simply a question of colour. If he'd taken me back to America with him, I would have been seen there as a 'nigger's whore'". (The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's 'Kind Of Blue' And The Remaking Of Modern Music, de Richard Williams)

(2010)