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yolo115:rrrick: http://lunettenoires.blogspot.com: Miles Davis: “I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning … Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”
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The Black Hawk nightclub, San Francisco, California. Late April, 1961.
Photograph by Leigh Wiener.
A bonus left-over from last Friday.
First Listen: Miles Davis, ‘Live In Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1’
The five-man band he led from late 1964 to early ‘68 — the so-called “second great quintet” — was one of the best he ever had. Apart from Davis, they were all twenty- and early-thirtysomething virtuosos. They all brought hyper-modern ideas to the table, in both writing and playing. (It was the ’60s, after all; lots of musicians were experimenting.) And, crucially, they were super-tight and super-loose at once. That is, they had developed excellent communication from playing together for more than three years — enough that they could each turn on a dime and pursue far-out tangents, and everyone else could follow. (NPR Music)
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Bringing the cool
“Life is dangerous. Life is unpredictable. So why not know you’re close to your passion?”
(c) Dennis Stock
Miles Davis, Birdland, NYC, 1949.
Miles Davis was born 85 years ago today in Alton, Illinois.
Check out some live tracks of Miles, solo and with Thelonious Monk, in our show 50 Years of Newport Folk and Jazz.
Image by Herman Leonard, (c) Herman Leonard Photography, LLC
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