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

[Dan Van Landingham]

The copy of Bitch's Brew I had was a "for radio only" promotional copy.Again,I don't remember where it
came from.



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From: Bertrand CHAUMELLE <chaumelle at orange.fr>
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Miles Davis etc [was Thelonious Monk [was Leonard Feather's Inside Jazz]]

"Bitches Brew" on a 45 ? But it's a lenghty piece ( a whole LP side in 
fact). I don't understand.

NC
Le 13 mars 10, à 23:59, Dan Van Landingham a écrit :

>
> I had "Sketches of Spain" several years ago and I did find it rather 
> boring.I gave it to a friend of mine.The
> Miles stuff I had from '51 and '53 were from an old 10" LP.I had it on 
> a cassette I recorded years ago.I
> remember the tracks of "The Blue Room":one track of was strictly Miles 
> and he didn't sound good at all.
> The other was a combo version that had a nice Rollins solo.It sounded 
> like an overdub to me.When I got
> I got out of high school back in '70,"Bitches Brew" was popular and I 
> had a 45 of it I acquired somehow.
> I couldn't get into it either.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
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> Sent: Sat, March 13, 2010 10:50:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Miles Davis etc [was Thelonious Monk [was Leonard 
> Feather's Inside Jazz]]
>
> 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))
> =======================
> "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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