[78-L] 78-L Miles Davis etc

[JD]

> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:12:26 +0000
> From: Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Miles Davis etc [was Thelonious Monk [was Leonard
> Feather's Inside Jazz]]
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> 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.
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> 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


"Kind of Blue" or the collabrations with Gil Evans don't count????
JD