Kind of Blue (jazz, rock, albums, fan, miles davis)

SATCHMO · 03-08-2008, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by ddp

Sonny Rollins "Saxophone Colossus"
John Coltrane "Giant Steps"
Thelonious Monk "Brilliant Corners"
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers "A Night in Tunisa"

Probably ,after A Love Supreme, the next 4 of my top 5.

ddp · 03-09-2008, 08:10 AM

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Originally Posted by SATCHMO

Probably ,after A Love Supreme, the next 4 of my top 5.

Yeah Love supreme is supreme.

I'd also chose Clifford Brown's trumpet playing over miles's every time.
Check out "Jazz immortal" he could play circles around miles.
Too bad he died at 25 we never found out his true potential.

Miles became a legend partly by a war of attrition. He outlasted so many of his contemporaries. He was the great band leader he was lucky to play with all the greats of Jazz. His alumni includes.

Charlie Parker (1940s)
John Coltrane (1950s)
Bill Evans (1960s)
Charles Mingus
Horace Silver
Sonny Rollins (1950s)
Marcus Miller (1980s)
John McLaughlin (1960s)
Herbie Han**** (1970s)
Billie Cobham (1970s)
Thelonious Monk (1940-50s)

Those are just the first of my favourtes of his bandmates that pop to my mind. There must be hundreds and hundreds.

He was one hell of a bandleader!!

SATCHMO · 03-09-2008, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by ddp

I'd also chose Clifford Brown's trumpet playing over miles's every time.
Check out "Jazz immortal" he could play circles around miles.
Too bad he died at 25 we never found out his true potential.

I'm a huge Clifford Brown fan. I can hardly fathom what music would be like today if he hadn't gotten into that car. BTW, Scott Lafarrow, the bassist for The Bill Evans Trio, AKA the upright player on Portraits in Jazz, also had an untimely death via a car accident, and is from my hometown. I used to drive past the scene of his accident daily on my way to school.