Miles was Speaking Armenian
He and his brother were not only speaking Armenian…
Simple mentioning of a friend of Armenian people immediately animates images of poet Sir George Gordon Byron and polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen, arteria.am reports. Streets and schools in Armenia are named after them, statues and busts are erected; they are referred to the books and numerous scientific studies. But there is one person, who … its better to go with the facts.
The first new biography since the legendary trumpeter Miles Davis’ dead his authored by Emeritus Professor of Yale University and researcher of Columbia University John Szwed (So What: The Life of Miles Davis, by John Szwed, 2003 ISBN 0-684-85982-3). On page ten he describes early years of Miles spent in East St. Louis, Illinois. “The Devises felt more comfortable with the Armenians they lived among, because they saw them as less prejudiced than other whites they knew. Miles’ first best friend was an Armenian boy named Leo, who died in a fire when he was six. Both Miles and [his brother] Vernon started school speaking some Armenian, but the teachers stopped them because most of what they knew were curse words.”
This is more than enough for this cosmic phenomenon, the man who speaks with stars through his trumpet to be declared a friend of Armenian people and to propose as a public initiative the erection of his full-length statue in Armenia.
Levon Gyulkhasyan
18 June, 2016
