[78-L] Miles Davis etc [was Thelonious Monk [was Leonard Feather's Inside Jazz]]

[Bertrand CHAUMELLE]

What about "Kind Of Blue" ? It's Coltrane, it's studio and it's more 
than OK !!

"Porgy and Bess" and "Sketches of Spain": ditto. The covers are better 
than anything on gloomy Blue Note.

Cannonball a 'disgrace' ? You must be kidding, Julian.

But don't worry, that's only my opinion, and France isn't part of the 
www, AFAIK

BC ;o))

Le 13 mars 10, à 10:12, Julian Vein a écrit :

>
> Dan Van Landingham wrote:
>> I had some of those Miles Columbias and I just couldn't get into 
>> them.I'd like to get my hands on the stuff
>> he recorded for Prestige between '51 and '53 with Sonny Rollins.
> =================
> Davis's best work during his Columbia period was on his live 
> recordings,
> mainly with Coltrane (who, by 1959, was under contract to Atlantic and
> couldn't make studio sessions with Miles). Davis's Columbia work was OK
> (apart from Cannonball Adderley whose playing, frankly, was a disgrace,
> and sounded like a tipsy debutante with champagne bubbles up her
> nose--strange, because I've heard him play much better elsewhere), but
> tended to be on the "constipated" side--too much A&R'ing perhaps? I 
> find
> a similar problem with Blue Note--too much supervision, and too much
> reliance on undistinguished "originals". The chords may have gassed the
> musicians, but they don't make for an attractive presentation. Prestige
> fared better by letting their artists get on with it. The material
> seemed to be superior too. The best thing about Blue Note was the album
> art work.
>
>       Julian Vein
>
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