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Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 1655
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 29, 2006 - 09:42 am: | 
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Miles Davis Inducted Into RockWalk
By Associated Press
September 28, 2006, 8:42 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES -- The King of Cool, Miles Davis, was posthumously inducted into Hollywood's RockWalk on Thursday.
The event was attended by musicians and members of the Davis family, including his son, Erin, and daughter, Cheryl.
While living icons have had their handprints immortalized on the sidewalk gallery outside the Guitar Center on Sunset Boulevard, a bronze bust of Davis will be put on display outside the store instead. Davis died in 1991 at age 65.
Davis first picked up the trumpet at age 13 and made his recording debut in 1947. He was renowned for morphing his cool jazz into fusion and experimental sounds that later gave way to jazz funk and hip-hop grooves. His many many legendary albums include "Round About Midnight," "Birth of the Cool" and "Kind of Blue."
Recently, a DVD, a movie, a Smithsonian museum exhibit and induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have all renewed Davis' popularity in what would have been his 80th-birthday year. Don Cheadle has agreed to play Davis in an upcoming biopic and a new Davis CD will be released this fall called "Evolution of the Groove" featuring guitarist Santana and rapper Nas.
The RockWalk was established in 1985 to honor musicians who have made a significant contribution to the history of music. |
Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 822
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 30, 2006 - 06:49 am: |
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Thanks Mzuri. I'm a extra hard core Miles disciple from way back. But my obsession with his music is for his recordings with Bird, the Prestige years with Coltrane and Red Garland, Jones, et al and his Columbia recordings. The Columbia recordings include the great quintet and sextet with Coltrane, Cannonball, Evans, Kelly, Chambers, et al, the second great quintet with Hancock, Shorter, Williams and Carter which included all of his recordings up to Bitches Brew. After that, I had no interest in what he did. His music after that (Bitches Brew), although commercially successful was the most artistically sterile and embarrassing.
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Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 1657
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 30, 2006 - 08:17 am: |
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But how could you lose interest in Miles??? He could have coughed and I would have loved it!!!  |
Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 829
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 30, 2006 - 08:36 am: |
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Don't get me wrong, I LOVE THE MANS MUSIC! When I was young, I would sit in my room for hours on end listening to one Miles recording after another! I have just about every book written about the man, starting with that very weak tome written by Bill Cole (the first bio on Miles). The acoustic recordings work (even some of the Gil Evans collaborations) best for me. You would be shocked at how many recordings (domestic and foreign) I have by him.
Most people (unfortunately) know of Miles after he came out of retirement back in the 80's. I've found most of them have little to no knowledge of his works with Bird, Prestige and the second great quintet. What do you have by him? Any favorites?
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Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 1660
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 30, 2006 - 01:05 pm: |
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I own his contemporary recordings, the one's that you profess to hate. I don't have his older recordings although I have heard them. I never even knew of Miles until in the eighties probably because I wasn't exposed to Miles when I was coming up, my parents listened to Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Al Green, Miss Aretha, etc. Lots of soul but no jazz. And I preferred Jackson Five, Stevie Wonder, Diana & The Supremes, etc. In my late teens it was Chaka Khan, Kool and the Gang, Sly Stone, and eventually Prince. Not that any of that is a valid excuse. I feel so deprived now, I wasn't raised on Miles  |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1331
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 30, 2006 - 09:20 pm: |
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The older stuff is simply classic. I love the quintet recordings you talked about, Ntsf. There is something about that combination of a trumpet and sax that is just magical. They are really playing as an ensemble on many of these recordings--no one trying to outshine anyone else, really focusing on the music. If you have to start somewhere, Mzuri, with the older recordings, begin with "Kind of Blue." I get chills every time I hear it. |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 1677
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 30, 2006 - 09:25 pm: |
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Thank You Yvette |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 5316
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, October 01, 2006 - 04:28 pm: |
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I love Miles, too, Yvette & Mzuir. I go way back with him - naturally - LOL. I remember checking him out at a little jazz club in Chicago where he was appearing and where he did what he frequently did, which was to turn his back on the audience and proceed to play a very exquisite solo for the benefit of himself. Back in the day, he was very eccentric and cantankerous, and of course, heavily into drugs, but it never seemed to affect his genius. Later he mellowed out, and was even accused of being a sell-out when he started making videos and giving jazz interpretations to hits of the day, most notabley Cindy Lauper's "True Colors." But he persevered because he was, after all, Miles Davis. During this time, he and Prince became good buddies.Is it any wonder?? |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 5318
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, October 01, 2006 - 04:54 pm: |
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I understand that you are a purist when it comes to Miles, NTFS. But I always kinda appreciated the fact that he resisted becoming stagnant. He never lost the ability to make a ballad his own. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 5319
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, October 01, 2006 - 05:02 pm: |
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Correction. I wasn't sure of the Cyndi Lauper song that Miles did, and I thought it was "True Colors" but although he may have done a version of "True Colors", too, it suddenly came to me that the most notable song of hers that he did was "Time After Time." |
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