The many musical faces of Mr. Miles Davis?

I mentioned in another post(thread)" A Tribute To Jack Johnson ". His music followed his moods through out his life and career.

Viridian,

I'd agree. I recently finished reading his autobiography...he was hard on women in general..and not overly kind to himself, his body at least.

IMHO he was something special. I have somewhere around 20-25 of his cds. He was a product of his environment (40-50's America) and of himself. Much of his mental & physical pain was self-inflicted..but attributed by him to others. Overall he changed the world in a good way.

Miles has as many facets as a brilliant diamond. It's not until after you have seen them all can you appreciate his genious.

You got to give it to the man. He was in perfect position to have done a more commercially viable thing, ala Wes Montgomery, during the 60's. Miles Davis could have easily out Botti'ed Chris Botti during those radical 60's producing hot cool commercially successful records, but no, Miles remained utterly honest and true to himself, whilst continually reinventing himself. And for many in the black community Miles was an Icon, especially throughout the radical 60's for he represented the face of an angry black man that took no gruff from no white folk. Well, that's simply how it was 50 years ago. It's almost impossible to speak about Miles or his music without recognizing his anger. No one messed with Miles. In any event, Miles Davis, and others deserve a lot of credit for having endured it all, without selling out.

My fave Miles is his work with the 2 great quintets he had.I'm leaning towards the prestige albums as my fave output from him, but can't get into Bitches Brew. I find it all over the shop and much prefer A Tribute To Jack Johnson to that work.

Chris