Jazz for aficionados

Today’s Listen:

Clark Terry -- YES, THE BLUES
with ’Cleanhead’ Vinson on alto & vocals.

Another Great Trumpet player from St Louis. The notes require an electron microscope, and the booklet is written in Japanese. But the CD title says it all. That ’Cleanhead’ is a funny guy.

give the bass player a little love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK6bkcIne10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGjHi3FlZd0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq_Zc4Uoy-c

Cheers

Schubert, beyond being a great musician, Miles Davis was not all the things he claimed to be or appeared to be. It's for sure he was not a pimp. A pimp is one cold blooded disgusting SOB. Miles accepted money from prostitutes and other women when he was on drugs and needed a fix. He didn't force the women to give him the money, they gave him the money willingly for his company; that's not the same as being a pimp.

He claimed to being a pimp because that boosted his stature in the street as a worldly person. The Miles Davis "Persona" was for a number of reasons which were personal to Miles.

The only people who knew the "Real" Miles Davis were the people he grew up with that he mentioned in the first chapter of his autobiography; not even the musicians who worked with him knew the "Real" Miles Davis; I also knew those people he grew up with although they were approximately 15 years older than me; to a person, they said Miles was the nicest kindest person you could ever meet.

From time to time he would invite them to his home for "old times sake". None of the musicians he worked with, or any one else was privy to those gathering. You can cross check this with the various musicians who were also his close friends; none of them were invited either.

In these gatherings, they reacted to one another the same as they did when they were growing up; they called one another by the same nick names. They may have even called Miles "Buckwheat". Regardless how much fun they had, there is no way Miles was going to allow anyone to observe these gatherings where he was no longer a celebrity, but a child having fun with his best friends, the same as he did when he was growing up.

Here's a hot horn section.  But please, disregard those suits!

For those who know the music, it gives more appreciation to the original to hear all five are needed to replicate the one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cst9lV5PPg

If you think this is off topic, blame rok.  He got me off track. ;^)

pryso

Here’s a hot horn section. But please, disregard those suits! ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cst9lV5PPg

That’s a brilliant arrangement. The music is timeless, so the suits don’t matter.