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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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May 27, 2009 - 12:16am PT
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Jaybro=enlightenment....thought Miles was another climber like our dear Blitzo.....they never let me out much bitd :D
thanks for the enlightenment on the path. More great musika...ah, ain't life grand ? lynners
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Double D
climber
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May 27, 2009 - 12:51am PT
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I've always thought it would be really cool to see someone do a documentary on the “family tree” of Miles, i.e. all the musicians that came through his band, his influence on them and in turn their influence on others. He was like a scouting agent for the jazz word. He had an amazing knack for progressing into new realms without looking back. It’s too bad that he and Jimi never got together, it would have been good. Miles wrote about the possibility in his autobiography.
So long Miles.
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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May 27, 2009 - 12:59am PT
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By the way, I have a close friend - Matthew Sand - a fellow climber and screenwriting machine who's uinder studio contract to pen a movie on Miles, with some big hitters attached (can't remember who).
I thoght Miles was particularly fine when he had Bill Evans on board.
JL
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Fuzzywuzzy
climber
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May 27, 2009 - 02:24am PT
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Saw Miles at the Isle of Wight in 1970. Amazing.
Heard an interview (his voice was so raspy, full of character).
In the interview he makes a point of telling the audience that when he went into the studio it was to take the music further. They were not just cutting another disc they were raising the stakes on ALL that had proceeded them.
He implied that the prep and the knowledge of what had gone into music should be fully understood before one cuts his own.
Impressive.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - May 27, 2009 - 06:50am PT
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In the unauthorized bio of Miles that I read, he is quoted as saying that after Isle of Wight, he went back to London to await Jimi with whom he had plans for some colabaration recordings, unfortunately for the universe, that was when Jimi, passed on to the other side. What would have come of that? the mind boggles! imagine those guys sharing a wawa!
Lynne, had Miles been a a climber, he would have kicked all our asses, but he would have sent us all on a mission to find the climbing that means the most to each one of us.
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Bazo
Boulder climber
Ky
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May 27, 2009 - 06:58am PT
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Cecil Taylor on Miles Davis:
"He plays alright for a millionare."
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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May 27, 2009 - 10:21am PT
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Actually Miles and Jimi played together on a few occasions at Miles' house. They were good buddies but their planned recording didn't happen due to business details.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - May 27, 2009 - 11:17am PT
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Anyone got recordings of that?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - May 27, 2015 - 05:59am PT
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He would have been 89 yesterday!
Without Bitches Brew to lead me in, I might never have followed the thread to find jazz. Life without Coltrane?
I only saw him once, in The Celebrity theatre in Phoenix. Perfect small venue for him I thought. He never spoke a word, even when he introduced the band. Kept his visor like shades on the whole time.
Did he ever play with P-funk?
My vote for flat out, the most important, most influential musician of the twentieth century.
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crankster
Trad climber
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May 27, 2015 - 06:24am PT
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Best ever, Bitches Brew. I was lucky to see him in '89...it was either Concord or Mountain View, don't recall.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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May 27, 2015 - 07:02am PT
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Bazo, what Taylor was really referring to was Miles came from wealth. His father was a dentist; the family owned properties and were actually a kind of American nobility. So he came by his stunning, powerful attitude early on. Yeah, I saw him too; it was in the mid-Sixties at The Greek.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 27, 2015 - 07:21am PT
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Maybe the best of the best live shows.
New Years 1980!
We were going to be six white folk in Harlem then two of the girls chickened out
As I recall this left us way over supplied, not wanting to waste the wasting sauce,
We shared our real Moët, with a homeless vet
Who was so happy and lept around saying "yup good god, the real sh!t!"
At the show, tin foil and bindles of blow were passed up and down the rows for all who wanted to,To share!
MILES, has been a part of my children's musical background and now at the teen years they know from what is real great sounds as opposed to the canned crap of their friends .
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