Cassandra Wilson Quotes

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

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• Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

  

  Cassandra Wilson
  • Doing
  • Forms
  • African