*****Speaking of Miles specifically, I think he is in fact more popular in Europe*****
So was Jerry Lewis.
***** He left classical jazz in an effort to put slavery behind him, and he might’ve succeeded*****
He left Jazz in an attempt to gain more popularity and make more money.
All he succeeded in doing was tainting his Jazz legacy. Besides looking ridiculous in those outfits.
*****Black American musicians were invited and welcome, treated very differently compared to the US*****
In what way? This country, France, a few years previous, had voluntarily deported thousands of it’s own citizens to Nazi death camps Based on Race.
I guess everything is cool if all the blacks are artists, musicians and writers, but look what happened when North Africa showed up in Paris.
Cheers