You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O`Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood.
You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.
Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don`t believe that Miles sold out but I`m not in a position to say.
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You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time.
