Miles Davis died 20 years ago today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqW0WU6q2D4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1HoJSB-atE

peace

Hard to believe. Seems like a lot less.

r.i.p. you genius asshole

thkg u elan

at least he lived long enough to hear nevermind

his output over the last 20 has been poor tbh

the last thing Miles Davis wrote before he died was the words, "Kurt Cobain."

ps "is a sorry-ass cat"

So basically it's time to start getting stoked up for the 20th anniversary 6-CD Doo-Bop remasters.

the last thing Miles Davis wrote before he died was the words, "its better to burn out than fade away, sorry-ass cats!"

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfgmt9Bmnj1qz9m0ho1_500.jpg

So basically it's time to start getting stoked up for the 20th anniversary 6-CD Doo-Bop remasters.
wellll, this is finally coming out...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51L3gk10ciL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

This box set includes the Warner Bros studio albums Tutu, Amandla and Doo-Bop, the Dingo and Siesta soundtracks and live recordings with Quincy Jones and the likes of Kenny Garrett, Foley and Adam Holzman. It also includes 4 previously unreleased tracks, from the Rubberband Sessions. The liner notes were provided by leading jazz critic Ashley Kahn.

I posted about this on Twitter yesterday. When Miles died, I was working at a Quick Chek that used the smooth jazz station CD 101.9 as in-store muzak. When they announced his death, they played "Time After Time." And that was it. Then it was right back to the Yellowjackets and David Sanborn and whatnot.

He heard the Use Your Illusion albums after waiting three years, and then said "That's enough."

Paul Tingen sez:

...Eagle Rock this month releases a compilation of video footage from Miles' Montreux concerts, 1973-91. This is apparently a taster for the release of a huge boxed set with the full video footage of all Miles' Montreux concerts, the audio of which was already issued on The Complete Miles Davis At Montreux in 2002.

He listened to Laughing Stock and then said, "That'll do, pig. That'll do."

word on the street is Paul McCarney's gonna play a club show tonight and open Sgt Pepper w/"it was 20 years ago today/that Miles Davis passed away" so look forward to that

http://www.noisemademedoit.com/miles-davis-blind-listening-test/

^that link is so sick. was that talked about anywhere else on ilm

4. Al Hirt
Goin' to Chicago Blues
(Live at Carnegie Hall, RCA).
Hirt, trumpet.

It's Al Hirt. I think he's a very good trumpet player. For anyone that feels that way, I guess he hits them. He's a good trumpet player, but that's some corny-ass shit he plays here.

They want him to be fat and white and funny and talented, but he ain't. They want something that looks good on television; fat, with a beard, and jovial and jolly. He's like a white Uncle Tom. And he's a nice guy; it's a drag. You know, white folks made Negroes tom a long time ago by giving them money. To do this in front of some white people, to play you to have that kind of personality, like him, it's tomming. I can't see why a guy like Al Hirt . . . I guess if he was thin he wouldn't do it.

Harry James is a good trumpet player, and he never did tom or no shit like that. Harry had some feeling.

For a guy to shake his unattractive body and think somebody thinks it's funny - it ain't funny, it's disgusting. He can't entertain me like that; he can entertain some corny ofays, but all the colored folks I know would say, "Oh, fuck! I don't want to hear that!"

http://www.forghieri.net/jazz/blind/Davis_4.html

^that link is so sick. was that talked about anywhere else on ilm

I was linking to the all the ones I can find a couple mos ago...think it was in a Mingus thread