Jazz for aficionados

**** Gotta wonder if he ever expressed being spellbound by geniuses other than Hendrix. Anyone know? ****

Based on what I’ve read and on hear say:

Gil Evans
Claude Debussy
Mike Bloomfield
Tony Williams, reportedly his favorite drummet.
Sly (“Sly and the Family Stone”)
and, surprising to me…Buddy Rich. He loved Buddy Rich

I think that what is at plays in music appreciation is way more deeper than craftmanship only and mastering of the instrument evaluation points and virtuosity appreciation ...

The musical content specifically played by a specific musician some day and not an another one is more important sometimes than the objective level of craftmanship "per se"...

In music miracles drew our attention to the content which is also a miracle sometimes in a way the usual and the ok did not...Sometimes what seems only ok to one reveal itself to be a true miracle to an another one....

Like love, music bath itself each day only in miracles....

Be it an interpretation or an improvisation or the two in a specific content and from a specific content, written in part or not....It is all miracles...Save for the deaf or for the part of ourself which is deaf again for the time being...

Then our tastes are hidden mysteries.... Even to ourself....We open them by listening to our own soul....

It is the reason why music history is also one of the deeper chapter of the human consciousness history....

And Miles choices a list of improbable picks at first sight....His own consciousness is a mystery in the making...And we must perceive this becoming to learn from it....

Listening so imperfect it is, is the door to pure consciousness....


For some masters the cosmos is only one sound: OM....

Why?

or How?

Perhaps OM is like a fractal, and any sounds is in it like the filament and thread that comes from it and go back to it at the sames times...



My deepest respect to our friend and musician frogman....

Be surprised if Miles did not love Rich, birds of  a feather .

Good comments, Mahgister!

To be clear, for me the names on the list don’t seem improbable at all. Not only is each of those musicians a virtuoso of one kind or another, they also fit what I understand to have been Miles’ constantly changing broad artistic aesthetic……except Buddy Rich, whose artistic persona seemes to me to not be a good fit with Miles’…..for me.

The contradiction is obviously in my mind and not Miles’. This goes to something that I have always felt is important to have….a certain amount of humility when listening and to not be too rigid with one’s opinions. Clearly, the message for me is that I have to listen to more Buddy Rich.

Regards.

“birds of a feather” ?!

Certainly as far as public persona was concerned. But, musically? I don’t see (hear) it. A drummer who in spite of his virtuosity also had a certain “signature” in his sense of swing that to my ears was very different from Miles’. Rich, I hear as very rhythmically aggressive, playing very on top of the beat while Miles’ was rhythmically much more relaxed. Rich, technical perfection, always. Miles, could sound very rough around the edges as a part of the musical attitude that he sometimes tried to project. Hence my surprise and why I need to listen to more Rich and try to hear more of what Miles heard.

@mahgister

It's a nearly impossible task to express the emotions of music via the written word, but you just did the best job I've ever seen - and I'm no spring chicken.  Well done, sir.