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Drummer, scientist, educator and improviser Milford Graves died in his Queens, N.Y. home around 3 p.m. on Fri., Feb. 12. He was 79. Lois, his wife of sixty-one years, confirmed to NPR that the cause was congestive heart failure, related to a 2018 diagnosis of amyloid cardiomyopathy. Mr. Graves was surrounded by Lois, his five children (four daughters and a son), his beloved granddaughter, Tatiana, and a cross-section of students across generations who had bestowed him with the honorific "Professor," a nod to his guidance in music, botany, martial arts and metaphysics. 鼓手、科学家、教育家和即兴演奏家米尔福德·格雷夫斯于 2 月 12 日星期五下午 3 点左右在纽约皇后区的家中去世。享年79岁。他六十一年的妻子Lois向NPR证实，原因是充血性心力衰竭，与2018年淀粉样性心肌病的诊断有关。格雷夫斯先生被露易丝、他的五个孩子（四个女儿和一个儿子）、他心爱的孙女塔蒂亚娜和几代学生包围着，他们授予他尊称“教授”，这是对他在音乐、植物学、武术和形而上学方面的指导的认可。

Milford Graves was Professor Emeritus of Music at Bennington College in Vermont, where he taught the power and aesthetic of Black Music as a faculty member from 1973-2012. He used his platform there to express his many ideas, most well beyond the confines of the performance stage, operating instead as a kind of shamanic artist and teacher, whose emotional and intellectual connection to traditional music he fused with scientific inquiry and study. 米尔福德·格雷夫斯（Milford Graves）是佛蒙特州本宁顿学院（Bennington College）的音乐名誉教授，1973年至2012年，他在那里教授黑人音乐的力量和美学。他利用他在那里的平台来表达他的许多想法，其中大部分远远超出了表演舞台的范围，而是作为一种萨满艺术家和老师，他将与传统音乐的情感和智力联系与科学探究和研究融合在一起。

Graves graduated from the Eastern School for Physicians' Aids in the 1960s, and worked in a diagnostic veterinary lab for two years. He purchased an album of stethoscopic heart recordings during a lunch break in 1973, and its content led him to pursue the path of his life's work: He began to record heartbeats and transcribe them into music notation. What started as a rudimentary documentation on reel-to-reel tape increased in sophistication with the adoption of advanced computing technology, culminating in Mr. Graves's use of algorithms to create visualizations and sound data that plotted the human heartbeat and its varied electrical states for the purpose of healing. His discoveries led to a patent for preparing non-embryonic stem cells from a tissue derivative, subjecting those cells to vibrations from a heart sound to control the degree of differentiation into several other types of cells. He once said, "Drumming should be taught in medical school. Know your beats. There are subtleties in the heartbeat that cannot be picked up through electronic imaging," and his scientific rigor on heart rates informed a non-linear approach to playing rhythm. 格雷夫斯于1960年代毕业于东方医师艾滋病学校，并在诊断兽医实验室工作了两年。1973年，他在午休时购买了一张听诊心脏录音专辑，专辑内容使他追求毕生的工作道路：他开始记录心跳并将其转录成乐谱。随着先进计算技术的采用，最初是卷对卷磁带的基本文档，变得越来越复杂，最终 Graves 先生使用算法创建可视化和声音数据，绘制人类心跳及其各种电气状态以达到治疗目的。他的发现导致了一项专利，用于从组织衍生物制备非胚胎干细胞，使这些细胞受到心音的振动，以控制分化为几种其他类型的细胞的程度。他曾经说过：“打鼓应该在医学院教。了解您的节拍。心跳中有一些微妙之处无法通过电子成像来捕捉到“，他对心率的科学严谨性为一种非线性的演奏节奏方法提供了信息。

Milford Graves (b. 1941, Jamaica, Queens) is a percussionist, acupuncturist, herbalist, martial artist, programmer, and professor. A pioneer of free Jazz, Graves was a member of the New York Art Quartet, whose iconic first recording in 1964 featured LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) reading his poem "Black Dada Nihilismus." In 1967, he played at John Coltrane’s funeral. A consummate autodidact with a syncretic approach, Graves invented a martial art form called Yara based on the movements of the Praying Mantis, African ritual dance, and Lindy Hop in 1972. Shortly thereafter, Graves joined the Black Music Division at Bennington College, where he taught for 39 years and is now Professor Emeritus. In 2000 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and began to study human heart vibrations to better understand music’s healing potential, and in 2015 he received the Doris Duke Foundation Impact Award. He is the subject of a critically acclaimed, feature-length documentary,Milford Graves Full Mantis(2018), directed by his former student, Jake Meginsky, with Neil Young. Additional notable recordings includeIn Concert At Yale University(with Don Pullen, 1966);Dialogue of the Drums(with Andrew Cyrille, 1974);Babi(1977);Meditation Among Us(1977);Real Deal(with David Murray, 1992);Grand Unification(1998);Beyond Quantum(with Anthony Braxton and William Parker, 2008); andSpace/Time Redemption(with Bill Laswell, 2014). He continues to live and work in South Jamaica, Queens in the home that formerly belonged to his grandmother. 米尔福德·格雷夫斯（1941 年生于牙买加皇后区）是一位打击乐手、针灸师、草药师、武术家、程序员和教授。作为自由爵士乐的先驱，格雷夫斯是纽约艺术四重奏的成员，他在1964年录制的标志性第一张唱片以LeRoi Jones（Amiri Baraka）朗读他的诗“Black Dada Nihilismus”为特色。1967年，他在John Coltrane的葬礼上演奏。格雷夫斯是一个完美的自学成才者，采用融合的方法，于 1972 年根据螳螂、非洲仪式舞蹈和林迪霍普的动作发明了一种名为 Yara 的武术形式。此后不久，格雷夫斯加入了本宁顿学院的黑人音乐部门，在那里他教了39年，现在是名誉教授。2000年，他获得了古根海姆奖学金，并开始研究人类心脏振动，以更好地了解音乐的治疗潜力，并于2015年获得了多丽丝杜克基金会影响力奖。他是一部广受好评的长篇纪录片《米尔福德·格雷夫斯满螳螂》（2018 年）的主题，该纪录片由他以前的学生杰克·梅金斯基执导，尼尔·杨。其他值得注意的唱片包括耶鲁大学的音乐会（与唐·普伦，1966）;鼓的对话（与安德鲁·西里尔，1974）;巴比（1977）;我们中间的冥想（1977）;Real Deal（与David Murray合作，1992）;大统一（1998年）;超越量子（与安东尼·布拉克斯顿和威廉·帕克，2008）;和空间/时间救赎（与比尔·拉斯韦尔，2014）。他继续在皇后区南牙买加生活和工作，那里以前属于他的祖母。