Re: [Harp-L] Re: Harp-L Digest, Vol 109, Issue 83

["mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Angelo
That's right if there ever was a Jazz Artist  that had a long and unusual growth history it would have been Miles Davis.
Coming from the elevated class, father of  a St. Louis Dentist ,was not " born of the ghetto "
As many of his mentors or peers...

That and the long journey he made as a musician to become  " Miles " gives another kind of Cred ....Miles earned this long notes and pregnant pauses.

Anyone that remembers when " Bitches Brew " was cut, he took a lot of heat for " going
Psychedelic "
Jazz people thought Miles had jumped ship but really, Miles was taking command !

Well that's my read on Miles Davis for what its worth.

Mike Wilbur 



On Sep 27, 2012, at 8:59 AM, Angelo Adamo <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'd like to say something about playng few/many notes.
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> I think that everything is good when comes from a choice.
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> If you talk about Miles Davis and his "few notes poetry", don't forget that this phase of his artistic history was the natural prosecution of a path started in the 1940s.
> At that time, he was playing be bop with Charlie Parker and all the great names of that epoch.
> What I'm trying to say is that if Miles decided later to play few, long notes, he was doing that because he felt that as the right thing to do; he managed hi solos this way because he preferred those few to a forest of notes.
> But, if he would, he could play the forest...
> Being an artist of that level to me means also that you know so well your instrument and the music that you can prefer something to some other thing, being not the slave of your instrument and of the genre you are playing.
> This way, emotions can flow freely, regardless how many notes you decide to use in expressing yourself.
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> Angelo Adamo
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