I came home yesterday after a particularly stressful Monday. There always seems to be piles of work stacked up after a long business trip.
So I get home, plug in my iPod and cue up my "decompression" playlist. I pour myself a Glenlivit on ice and take a seat on the screened-in sunporch while Miles and Coltrane chill it out with So What.
Ahhh. Scotch and jazz. Just the thing to take the edge off.
I know jazz doesn't do it for some people. But if you can't dig this riff, then I can only conclude that you have no soul.
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I know jazz doesn't do it for some people. But if you can't dig this riff, then I can only conclude that you have no soul.
ReplyDeleteYou didn't ask for an "Amen," but I'll give you one anyway.
When I first bought Kind of Blue I listened to it at least once a week, frequently more, for a couple of months. Just magical. Every song a first take, except the last one, which was a second take.
Some questions now: Do you know the date for this performance? And whoever the pianist is, I know it's not Bill Evans.
You da man, JB. This video is from a live performance in 1958 (originally broadcast in '59).
ReplyDeleteThe pianist is Wynton Kelly. The rest of the quintet is Coltrane, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Jimmy Cobb.
This clip is from a DVD Miles Davis: The Cool Jazz Sound. It's a 25-minute recording that also features Gil Evans and his orchestra.
Thanks!
ReplyDeleteWonderful riff...I could almost smell the smoke in the room.
Fabulous.
ReplyDeleteMiles was a bad man.
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