Jazz for aficionados

Love Hank Mobley; probably the most under appreciated tenor player ever. Great album of, yes, modal hard-bop tunes:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ndqxk5J-VHQ

The Frogman:

Excellent Posts on Modal Jazz. I may have to take a class at the local community college.

I hope you know how much we appreciate the time and effort you take to be thorough and accurate. I did some reading and found a site with a list of modal tunes by many different people. I noticed there were no 'Standards' listed. Which leads me to what may be a stupid question.

Can be-bop tunes be played using the modal concept, and can modal tunes be played as be-bop. i.e., can we be-bop Maiden Voyage and Modal Tunisia? If this is stupid, just act as if O-10 asked the question.

Everything you ever wanted to know, and more, about Miles, Coltrane, Evans and modal. Nice short history.
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/music/jazz/ch/14/outline.aspx

Cheers

Frogman, "Ditto" on what Rok posted, you're very much appreciated here.

Rok, E. S. P. is one of the albums that's mentioned in regard to modal jazz, and there are a lot of photographs of miles shown while this music is playing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajQsZPf2Mb4


Although I never met Miles personally, or talked to any of the musicians he played with, I knew a lot of people who grew up with Miles, and I didn't even know this until his autobiography came out. Vernon Davis's, Miles brother, was always out on the town and I knew him a long time before I knew he was Miles brother; although I used to wonder where he got all those way out clothes ( they were the same size).

I had an uncle who used to call me at 2:00AM when he was into his "Courvoisier" brandy, and talk through what was left of the night. Once he asked me if I was a Miles fan, when I responded yes, the next question was would I like to meet him. After he told me he could arrange that, I figured it was the brandy talking, and went on to something else.

It was only after reading Miles autobiography that I discovered they were "buddy buddy" when Miles was growing up, and he could have called and asked when Miles had some free time in New York, and arranged a get together.

As I'm looking at these photographs, I'm realizing Miles had a side to his personality that's never mentioned; he kept that side separate from the musicians he worked with and the public. All of the people I knew, who knew Miles, said he was just a regular person, no quirkiness or anything.

I guess every celebrity has that side that longs not to be a celebrity, but the guy you grew up with next door.

Enjoy the music.

Hank Mobley Is to me the most interesting jazzman I know about . Hard driving but still rhythmic and melodic, even
a fool like me can't mistake him for anyone else.
I wonder if Kurt Elling was influenced by him ?

O-10:

Nice insights into Miles and his friends and family. He may have been just a normal guy, but he presented one of the coolest images ever of a Jazz player.

Funny how you didn't know Miles, but you were tight with his Aunt. :)

Thanks for the interesting post.

Cheers