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

[The Iceman <icemanle@xxxxxxx>]

Here's the interesting thing about Miles.....

his trumpet playing remained the same (once he found his unique voice)...it was the music that he surrounded it with that he constantly altered.

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Angelo Adamo <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, Sep 27, 2012 11:37 am
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Harp-L Digest, Vol 109, Issue 83


That's right, Mike!

But it seems to me that everything you are saying goes much beyond the  
technical problem we was talking about.

Miles did a more complex artistical path than other musicians and this  
compelled him to find new way of expressing himself.

This means new languages, which means also a new jazz phraseology,  
always evolving with his life experience.

In every case, if you know well how to move fingers on your trumpet,  
you can change you language every time you need to do it.

I can't speak a good english. This means that my eloquence technic  
isn't so good.

I can express few, poor concepts and I do this using always the same  
bundle of words.

Instead you can talk very, very much better than me and this permits  
you to let me understand, but also permits you to talk with a child  
and with a university teacher.

So, you have a great english technic. The one I don't have.

To me, playing is the same matter of speaking.

I can play only few notes and by them it's very difficult for me to  
give you many emotions.

Shakespeare can say whatevere he wants, he can be simple or  
complicated, and he can give you always emotions.

That's the difference

Angelo




Il giorno 27/set/12, alle ore 15:40, mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ha scritto:

> 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.
>>
>> I think that everything is good when comes from a choice.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Angelo Adamo
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

Dott. Angelo Adamo
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Il giorno 27/set/12, alle ore 15:40, mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ha scritto:

> 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.
>>
>> I think that everything is good when comes from a choice.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Angelo Adamo
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

Dott. Angelo Adamo
____________________
Via delle Borre 11, 40131
Bologna
info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Skype: a.adamo
+39 347 5131843
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