Miles Davis Interview from 1985
- KVRAF
- 25049 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
I saw that this morning
"When I hear myself back," he says, "things seem to be shorter than what you think they are. I keep playing and editing and playing and editing myself out … and I try and stop on a high point to leave someone else something to do. But when I hear it through, things that sounded bad for a long time sound bad only a few seconds.
"When I hear myself back," he says, "things seem to be shorter than what you think they are. I keep playing and editing and playing and editing myself out … and I try and stop on a high point to leave someone else something to do. But when I hear it through, things that sounded bad for a long time sound bad only a few seconds.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 4205 posts since 21 Oct, 2001 from my bolthole in the south pacific
Lots of interesting stuff in there. His take on old standards vs finding new material to work with etc. Jazz musicians of the swing and bop eras worked all the time from the popular songbook - reharmonising and improvising on the melody and changes. This is not something that happens so often these days. To some degree, this reflects the nature of the music biz and popular music but also a kind of backward looking attitude - the sort of thing he attributes to Winton in the interview.
"I got a car battery and two jumper cables that argue different."
Rust Cohle
Rust Cohle
- KVRAF
- 5687 posts since 11 Feb, 2005 from Bordeaux France
Lately, I listened deeply all the complete stuff , Jack Johnson, On the corner, Bitches Brew and so on. That's so great.
You can't always get what you waaaant...
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 4205 posts since 21 Oct, 2001 from my bolthole in the south pacific
In one of the books on Miles there is a passage where he is working out in the boxing gym everyday to keep fit and he discusses his new vegetarian diet with the writer. He says something along the lines that ... if "horses can eat grass and run like a muthaf@cka" why can't I?"
"I got a car battery and two jumper cables that argue different."
Rust Cohle
Rust Cohle
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fluffy_little_something fluffy_little_something https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=281847
- Banned
- 12880 posts since 5 Jun, 2012
Had to laugh a couple of times, for instance about this:
"Space music'd be really something … but they don't have no gravity up there. You couldn't have no downbeat!"
"Next thing I know, man, he was smiling and he looked like a piano."
He was a strange, maybe even vulgar person (but I know many black people speak like that), but also intelligent and funny...
"Space music'd be really something … but they don't have no gravity up there. You couldn't have no downbeat!"
"Next thing I know, man, he was smiling and he looked like a piano."
He was a strange, maybe even vulgar person (but I know many black people speak like that), but also intelligent and funny...
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 4205 posts since 21 Oct, 2001 from my bolthole in the south pacific
His language was the vernacular of his rather rarefied world of musicians and artists I guess - just think of the amazing list of people he worked with and socialised with. He was a modestly proportioned guy with a very forceful personality. The story goes that he had polyps removed from his vocal chords and was told to rest his voice while they healed. He got on the phone to the guys at Columbia to lean on them about keeping the advances on his royalties coming and he ended up yelling down the phone. Thereafter, his voice was the trademark whisper. You can hardly blame him - CBS have been making a killing out of the Miles Davis catalog since the 50's.
"I got a car battery and two jumper cables that argue different."
Rust Cohle
Rust Cohle
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- KVRAF
- 3581 posts since 25 Mar, 2006 from The city by the bay
Just in case some might not have already checked it out, Miles' autobiography, co-written with Quincy Troupe is quite good for anyone wanting insight into his life and extraordinary musical journey. (http://www.amazon.com/Miles-Autobiograp ... 0671725823).
On a different note, it's hard to believe that it's been 25 years since Aura came out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv_GaykNfe8
On a different note, it's hard to believe that it's been 25 years since Aura came out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv_GaykNfe8
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fluffy_little_something fluffy_little_something https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=281847
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- 12880 posts since 5 Jun, 2012
I used to have the Tutu album, which was also from that period. There were a couple of good tracks on it. Back then there were no online music shops, else I would certainly not have bought the whole album, 3/4 of it I hardly ever listened to. But Tutu and Portia I still love, have those two tracks on my computer. Tomaas was also cool, but haven't bought it so far. And the old Man with the horn, I like that electrified horn. Hm, never tried to program that sound on a synth, maybe I should try that...