In Praise of Miles Davis...

[Fab Foodie]

Just listening to 'Blue Miles' a fiver off Amazon...


I'm gone man... solid gone....

 

[Aperitif]

Gone? You mean you're miles away... Happy listening fab...maybe one of dellzeqq's joints will tumble into this thread from above.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Gone? You mean you're miles away... Happy listening fab...maybe one of dellzeqq's joints will tumble into this thread from above.

Mmmm... weed man, weed...

 

[rich p]

I've tried to like MD but I just can't. Maybe I should try again.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I've tried to like MD but I just can't. Maybe I should try again.

Have to say that this is a beautifully laid-back, late night chilling album, for the price it's a bargain! Very accesible. I'm working my way up to the Bitches Brew and his later fusion stuff... it may take some time.

 

[Ian H]

Music for grown-ups.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

If you like that, you should try In a Silent Way and then... well, there's just so much, and he was so brilliant.

 

[ttcycle]

FF, good choice- Miles is a great musician- for accessible fusion stuff with a good rhythm try 'what I say' on Live Evil. The fusion stuff has some really interesting structures musically.

Enjoy!

 

[zimzum42]

Miles Davis AND Bill Evans together, now that's something!!!

 

[theclaud]

Miles Davis AND Bill Evans together, now that's something!!!

Zim/Claud agreement shock!

 

[theclaud]

I've tried to like MD but I just can't. Maybe I should try again.

[with apologies to Delftse Post]

 

[Fnaar]

Love early Miles, can't stand later fusion/'funky' Miles. Sketches of Spain I played almost every day, when I llived in Spain.

 

[Twenty Inch]

Sketches of Spain blew my mind when I was about 17, and continues to do so. Great stuff. I have been in Seville during Semana Santa and he does wonderful things with the saeta.

 

[Andy in Sig]

Just listening to 'Blue Miles' a fiver off Amazon...


I'm gone man... solid gone....

Try the Kind Of Blue album and the Somethin' Else album he did which appears under the name of Cannonball Adderley.

My own personal jury is still out on MD but those two albums are masterpieces (as much from the other musicians as from him).

 

[NickM]

I've tried to like MD but I just can't. Maybe I should try again.

...I'm working my way up to the Bitches Brew and his later fusion stuff... it may take some time.

I wasted spent years (er, make that decades...) listening to music because I thought I ought to. I have hundreds of CDs of stuff bought only because I thought no collection could be "complete" (an entirely specious notion) without it...

Now I only listen to music that I like