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

[Julian Vein]

Bertrand CHAUMELLE wrote:
> 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))
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"Kind Of Blue" is OK, but I don't consider it the classic that others 
do. "Porgy and Bess" and "Sketches of Spain" were both boring records 
along with the rest of the Davis-Evans stuff for Columbia, poor 
definition of full of overdubs. I've tried listening to them over half a 
century, and can't warm to them.

As I said I've heard better Cannonball Adderley. I heard him in person 
in, I think, 1958 with JATP alongside Benny Carter, and I was more 
impressed by Adderley--he had a fuller tone than Carter's watery one. 
It's just that he wasn't up to the job with Davis, his solos are full of 
quotes and changes of direction. His playing is a serious blemish on 
"Kind Of Blue". At other times he seems to be aping Coltrane. The album 
wasn't that well recorded either.

      Julian Vein


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