Jazz for aficionados

frogman
your impressions match mine.  Wow was that intro on Roney's live cut ragged. And yes he has copied Miles licks. All jazz players coming up listen to guys already established and copy them ...in the beginning. But most move on and find their own voice and style-That's the mark of being a jazz musician. Personal creativity and getting your own sound out of the instrument. But Roney has been on the scene for quite some time and I don't think he has  found or wants to find  his voice . But he has made a career of it .
E Henderson on the other hand does not ape Miles licks and this is very apparent on the live cut I included. His approach and phrasing are very much his own. i like Henderson's work in H Hancock's 70's band and he made several albums in the 70's which I really liked but unfortunately no longer have. 

"A slow hot wind"; nothing could be more descriptive, or seductive; "A slow hot wind in the Philippines." A slow hot wind in Montego Bay Jamaica off the coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea; that’s the beginning of my next novel (although I haven’t written the first)

With a beginning like that, and music like this, you know it’s got to be hot; you submit your own fantasy to fit the first chapter, I already lived mine.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNxf0cSOwio

nsp

Peppe ’s music is extraordinary. You can almost touch the magic sound that comes out of his instrument, that vivid and palpable mark it leaves. I was introduced by a friend into jazz giants but in the process and in my complete ignorance (that poor knowledge still continues to be) have discovered Peppe by myself. I remember that I said to myself: Omg, who this guy is? Later found out that I run into one of ’the world’s great altoist’ as Scott Yanow, American historian and jazz reviewer once said for Peppe.

I very much like this one
Art Pepper ’The Prisoner’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5utT5yiQAOo

made by Karen Lawrence’s song ’Prisoner’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPFOIBwKf5Q

mistakenly thought to be the song written by Barbra Streisand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjMR-A5AaH8
- came to be a huge hit after the song was used as the soundtrack for the movie ’Eyes of Laura Mars’

Lyrics
"I’ve never been wrong
But you’re the the only one I trust to show me the way
I always hear your voice
And in my dreams I hear you calling my name
What is it about you?
Some kind of light shines from your face
And I can’t turn away.
I’m like a prisoner
Captured by your eyes,
I’ve been taken
And I’ve been hypnotized..."

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As for the Dusko in related to Miles, Frogman said it all. And so did you in one of your latest postings.

In my opinion, I am quite sure that, the more the artists ’work’ on themselves and their art, the more they are able to shape their own and recognizable sound in the process. I think it’s inevitable. Will they try to suppress their signature or let it out on the open, I guess that’s the matter of their choice & courage & arrogance.
Personally, I prefer lousy original over excellent copy (replication).

nsp, frog's reference covered it better, but here is another substantiation.
See the second paragraph -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rodney

I remembered it from something shown on PBS maybe a dozen years ago.  At least my memory didn't fail me this time. ;^)