orpheus10
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| All things Bill Evans. Foster_9, thanks for the "heads-up" on Coltrane. I can't seem to type and spell at the same time.In regard to "Portrait in Jazz" and "Sunday at the Village Vangaurd", they were recorded 17 years before "Affinity". Bill, like any great artist, made... | |
| All things Bill Evans. While it's important to have the ability to speak, it's even more important to have the ability to listen; Bill had that ability. He always heard everyone he played with.Although I had heard Scott LaFaro before, only recently is the first time I r... | |
| All things Bill Evans. Bill was playing with the big boys a long time ago. On the 58 Miles sessions, you have Bill, Trane, Cannonball, Paul Chambers bass and Jimmy Cobb drums. This is as good as it gets for my money, and Bill held it all together. The stars take the sol... | |
| Grant Green's version of 'Round About Midnight I like Wes Montgomery's version even better. "The Wes Montgomery Trio", recorded in 1959 is the one. Since that one might be hard to find, I'll consider the one by Grant to be a tossup. | |
| Grant Green suggestions Alexatpos, "Face" had one hit record. It came out in 63 ot 64. It was on Blue Note, and I don't remember the name of the record. Could you give me a list of what's available in Europe. Grant loved Face like a brother. | |
| Grant Green suggestions Something is very wrong, and I don't know if it's me or Blue Note. I have known about Grant Green all my life, yet I only became aware of those gems he made in the 60's after his death; while everyone was made aware of the commercial recordings he... | |
| Real Stinkers Jeff1225, could you enlighten me in regard to the several classical albums Miles produced. Remember, all music is subjective, and "On the Corner" is the worst album Miles ever put out, as far as I am concerned. | |
| Real Stinkers "Columbia marketed it for them old-time jazz people who couldn't get into what I was doing now in the first place. It was just a waste of time playing it for them; they wanted to hear my old music that I wasn't playing anymore. So they didn't like... | |
| Real Stinkers Jeff1225, "The best improv funk ever recorded"; Miles was supposed to be Jazz. When I heard that LP, it was the same as buying a bottle of whiskey, and tasting wine. Of course I spat it out. I took that LP back to the record store and demanded a r... | |
| Real Stinkers "On the Corner", by Miles Davis. | |
| Most Influential American Musician of All Time? Without a genre of music, it's a dumb question. | |
| Gerry Rafferty dies It's not necessary to reveal things of that nature. They should have had more respect for his family. | |
| The many musical faces of Mr. Miles Davis? More Miles trivia: that remark "I remember Miles, he was the little dark skinned kid who was always trying to blow the trumpet", it had absolutely no racial connotations, it was simply a fact of observation.She would have seen Miles through the sc... | |
| The many musical faces of Mr. Miles Davis? A little Miles Davis trivia: At the beginning of this thread, I mentioned an elderly lady who remembered Miles as "The little dark sinned kid who was always trying to blow the trumpet"Miles grew up three block from where that lady lived in a large... | |
| Grilles or No Grilles I have never heard a speaker that did not sound better with the grills off. However, some speakers look "but ugly" with the grills off. |