Jazz for aficionados
o10, many thanks for that link to the Beethoven/Monk overlay by Brown and Almeida. I heard that performed live years ago by Almeida and Bob Magnusson, plucked, no bowing. It was mesmerizing but it was not recorded and I never found another good rendition until this one. Now, for anyone here who may not have seen the video of the process of shooting the "Great Day in Harlem" photo, here’s a link - https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hsimp=yhs-att_001&hspart=att&p=A+Great+Day+In+Harl... |
I couldn’t get The Frogman’s post to magnify. I may have misspoken. The paragraph about Mile’s wisdom was actually made by the liner notes writer, Robert Levin. ...."Paul, too, has benefited greatly from his association with Miles. No musician with any degree of sensitivity can work night after night behind the "great man" without absorbing some of his profound musical wisdom, and the results of Paul’s exposure to Miles can be heard in his music"..... More recent notes from / for the Gelder CD, by Bob Blumenthal, go into greater detail about the connection between Miles and the music on this disc. Also points out that modern recording techniques favor the bass more than in the past. (?) Reading all this you would think Miles actually played on this session. In a sense I guess he did. Cheers Btw, there appears to be an actual title "Bass on Top". First held by Jimmy Blanton of the Ellington Band. |
