How to be a ‘cool’ musician.
Or maybe about How To Be.
130: Thelonious Monk, ‘Let’s Call This’ (Monk’s Advice to Lacy)
Miles Davis
055: Miles Davis/Gil Evans, ‘Concierto de Aranjuez’ (“Sketches of Spain”)
A jazz recasting trumps the classical original. Gil Evans and a taste of heaven.
Continue reading...079: Miles Davis, ‘So What’ (“Kind of Blue”)
THE masterpiece, universally acknowledged . By rockers, by rappers, by jazzists, by aficionados and cognoscenti, by layfolk and by elevator riders. A monolith of lyric beauty and depth.
It is perfect.
124: Bill Evans, ‘Nardis’
Dying from his life-long drug habit, in a harrowing burst of creative energy, Bill Evans raged against ‘the dying of the light’ night after night in these relentless, probing, profound performances.
Continue reading...041: Miles Davis, ‘It Never Entered My Mind’
Why did Miles Davis, a belligerent black ex-junkie, choose to reboot his career with white music of a rare, tender sweetness? Who cares?
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244: Bill Evans/Miles Davis, ‘On Green Dolphin Street’
Moledro — a feeling of resonant connection with an artist.
Some disparate notions about Bill Evans, all of them moledros.
003: Garcia/Grisman, ‘So What’
Chief Deadhead Jerry Garcia and Reb David Grisman merrily plucking their newgrass cover of Miles.
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