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Originally posted by S2 View PostGuess this would be a cover of Gershwin-
Whatever else, it's one of the most darkly stunning performances I've ever heard. As somebody elsewhere said, it's like the music played in the waiting room to the gates of hell.
A different version of Summertime:
Miles covers some contemporary tunes:
The economy of his playing after 1970ish is striking. Sometimes the bands behind him & arrangements were indifferent, but his playing soared above it all. Has a trumpeter ever done more with less?sigpic
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"Has a trumpeter ever done more with less?"
Davis created melody from empty space. Wasn't Gillespie or F. Hubbard as a horn technician IMV. Certainly not as fast but when did he ever need to be?"This aggression will not stand, man!" Jeff Lebowski
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." Lester Bangs
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Originally posted by S2 View Post"Has a trumpeter ever done more with less?"
Davis created melody from empty space. Wasn't Gillespie or F. Hubbard as a horn technician IMV. Certainly not as fast but when did he ever need to be?
1958 - moody & cool
1959 1) Modal jazz
1959 2) Sketches of Spain
1967 - responding to the avante garde
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_D...hy#Live_albums
1969 1) - the birth of fusion
1975 - 'the space between the notes'
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Pete,
Miss the "Like" for Miles. I've owned the Gil Evans collaborations for years and love them each uniquely."This aggression will not stand, man!" Jeff Lebowski
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." Lester Bangs
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Originally posted by S2 View PostPete,
Miss the "Like" for Miles. I've owned the Gil Evans collaborations for years and love them each uniquely.
As I've already posted that, here is some live magic. Glad this got saved for posterity.
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Aranjuez IS extraordinary. I'd love to know more about the particular objective(s) Miles had in mind with these Gil Evans collaborations. Who approached who and why they did so? When you consider how he was moving simultaneously towards a septet sized modal sound when performing live, something as disciplined, elaborate and tight as this was an entirely different direction."This aggression will not stand, man!" Jeff Lebowski
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." Lester Bangs
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At his best Rod was a stunning interpreter of other people's work. Great track S2. A perfect song for the Faces.
He turned this little noticed Crazy Horse song (by the late Danny Whitten) into his own.
A Cat Stevens classic. These two were released as a double A side.
Even as late as the 80s he could still turn it on, this time with old buddy Geoff Beck on a Curtis Mayfield classic.
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Follow the bouncing ball (and try not to get confused).
Luke Kelly & the Dubliners do Ewan MacColl.
Roberta Flack does Ewan MacColl.
Rod Stewart does Ewan MacColl.
Billy Bragg does Billy Bragg.
Kristy MacColl does Billy Bragg. He added an extra verse for her which Billy now sings in all his shows in tribute to her.
The Pogues & Kristy MacColl
The Pogues do Ewan MacColl
The Pogues do Rod Stewart
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Pete,
I see you working that full circle connectivity thingy. Nice. Special kudos for Ms. Flack and a song that stops me in my tracks, always, to be heard and savored before again moving on. My world stops the moment she sings that song."This aggression will not stand, man!" Jeff Lebowski
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." Lester Bangs
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"This aggression will not stand, man!" Jeff Lebowski
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." Lester Bangs
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