Monk & Miles & that cool bastard Lee
Reg
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Yeah Gene! Love that film. I'm just thankful there was someone that thought to get that on film. I wish someone had thought to do that at the Kind of Blue session.
As for the choice of Kind of Blue...well...I can't help it. Miles, Coltrane, Cannonball, Bill Evans, Jimmy Cobb and Paul Chambers all in the same room...and the legend that they improvised the whole damn record with just some instructions from Miles before cutting each song...no rehearsal...just played it...damn...there was some sort of mystical moment taking place and they all felt it and just let it flow.
They just played that...just a few words from Miles...sure Bitches had quite a set of players as well but I think a lot more went into "assembling" that record than went into Blue. I've had dreams of being there listening to Miles and company record Kind of Blue and damn...I just didn't want to wake up. It's a record that gets under your skin and just won't go away...
Lee...I imagine if you were there you'd never question your "coolness" again.
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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Yeah Gene! Love that film. I'm just thankful there was someone that thought to get that on film. I wish someone had thought to do that at the Kind of Blue session.
As for the choice of Kind of Blue...well...I can't help it. Miles, Coltrane, Cannonball, Bill Evans, Jimmy Cobb and Paul Chambers all in the same room...and the legend that they improvised the whole damn record with just some instructions from Miles before cutting each song...no rehearsal...just played it...damn...there was some sort of mystical moment taking place and they all felt it and just let it flow.
They just played that...just a few words from Miles...sure Bitches had quite a set of players as well but I think a lot more went into "assembling" that record than went into Blue. I've had dreams of being there listening to Miles and company record Kind of Blue and damn...I just didn't want to wake up. It's a record that gets under your skin and just won't go away...
Lee...I imagine if you were there you'd never question your "coolness" again.
–--
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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