Thanks all, improvisatory extensions/tangents included, for the take on the Mile's piece.
Two things: A query. Do folks remember the first time they ever hear a Miles' piece - live or on record? For me it was, Sketches of Spain, at a party in a friend's hotel room on Rue de Prince, Paris in late 1960 or early 1961. It, his trumpet, literally seemed to cut and carve the air. I had never heard anything like it - though, by that time, I had heard Monk in San Francisco. I had not heard anything like that either. Nor John Coltrane in 1964. Nor Cecil Taylor in 1974. Autobiographic acoustic footprints, all.
My favorite name of anybody growing up in my home town was Miles Messenger.
It sounded good and seemed to signfy something 'heraldic', but I could not figure out what. (In those days you did not ask anyone "what their name meant.") He was a smooth basketball player, I remember that, too.
Stephen Vincent, who has an important announcement on his blog site:
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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From: robert e. watling jr <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Memory Snap - Vincent
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Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 4:53 AM
On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:07:23 -0800, Judy Prince
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> Has anybody done a better _Concierto De Aranjuez [Adagio]-?
> Listen to it here [my fave's the first 4 minutes]
I also love Sketches of Spain and agree that Miles and Gil Evans brought
something to the music. I often listened to the complete Concerto either
before or after Sketches and find them totally complimentary. I used to
own all the Davis\Evans collaborations but only Sketches ever really held
my attention...rob.
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