You've got an inadvertant new series going. We've named one our meeting rooms at work after Miles Davis. I had earlier commented on a Frank Zappa post indicating that we have a Frank Zappa room there. Add James Burke to your broadcasters series to keep my meeting room series going!
I'm currently reading his autobiography, published in 1989 (2 years before his passing) which must be around the time of the latter photo. Fascinating stuff. I'm not a fan of his later efforts but at least he never stopped trying to innovate!
For some reason, all the live takes of So What I've ever heard take it so fast. Supposedly, when Tony Williams (a teenager at the time) joined the group, he would play the tunes really fucking fast. Miles said, "You need to slow down." Tony said, "You need to practice."
There's only one version of "So What" which reflected almost the atmosphere of "Kind Of Blue". It's from a TV special, broadcast in July 1959, just some months after the 1st session for the album. It's here:
John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb -- Miles plays just great, Trane is exploring the impossible as always, and you can hear Gil Evans' trombones playing a groovy background riff to Miles' 2nd chorus.
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his music experienced a similar progression
You've got an inadvertant new series going. We've named one our meeting rooms at work after Miles Davis. I had earlier commented on a Frank Zappa post indicating that we have a Frank Zappa room there. Add James Burke to your broadcasters series to keep my meeting room series going!
I'm currently reading his autobiography, published in 1989 (2 years before his passing) which must be around the time of the latter photo. Fascinating stuff. I'm not a fan of his later efforts but at least he never stopped trying to innovate!
Funny, only a couple of days ago, Michael "Don't call me Leon!" Schlesinger sent me a link to this clip of Miles and his 1964 band doing So What on the Steve Allen Show.
For some reason, all the live takes of So What I've ever heard take it so fast. Supposedly, when Tony Williams (a teenager at the time) joined the group, he would play the tunes really fucking fast. Miles said, "You need to slow down." Tony said, "You need to practice."
How much was due to age and how much to horse?
Before and after--defined.
How much was due to age and how much to horse?
Horse and blow and booze and bennies and reds and...
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There's only one version of "So What" which reflected almost the atmosphere of "Kind Of Blue". It's from a TV special, broadcast in July 1959, just some months after the 1st session for the album. It's here:
So What -- TV soundtrack, July 1959 (from LP)
John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb -- Miles plays just great, Trane is exploring the impossible as always, and you can hear Gil Evans' trombones playing a groovy background riff to Miles' 2nd chorus.
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