There are a few technique-related posts coming up, and after last week’s teaching rant, this quote from Bill Evans is particularly timely. Italics are mine: “Technique we always think of as being a thing having to […]
Category: Miles Davis
Very occasional quote of the day: late arrivers
“There’s a certain kind of people that are more or less late arrivers, you can – even though he was certainly on the scene and known and respected – you can hear him building his […]
Transcription: Tony Williams – Time of the Barracudas
From the Miles Davis album Quiet Nights, with conducted and arranged by Gil Evans. The tune is a Miles/Gil classic, and appears as a bonus track on the 1997 reissue of this album. The version […]
Practice loop: Sivad
This is a fun one, and just about my favorite ~45 seconds of music in the world: the opening of Sivad, from the Miles Davis album Live Evil. Tempo is 86 bpm. Rock out.
Practice loop in 3/4: All Blues
Another practice loop in 3, to go with all of the recent jazz waltz stuff, sampled from the very famous tune All Blues, from the very famous album Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. The […]
Groove o’ the day: Go Ahead John
Getting loose definitionally with our groove o’ the day here— this one is all variations, really, and no foundational groove. This is Jack Dejohnette playing the beginning of Go Ahead, John, from Miles Davis’s album […]
VOQOTD: Miles
This is from an interview by Jake Feinberg in Tucson, who you should be following— he’s interviewed a lot of great people: “I’ve been a sideman in a lot of different bands. The only time […]
Daily best music in the world: Splash
Slow week. Of course we can’t just have a continuous onslaught of new stuff— I don’t write just to hear myself bloviate, and I’ve already put on the blog far more information than I was […]
Transcription: Kenny Clarke fours
Here are Kenny Clarke’s fours, played with brushes, on Love Me Or Leave Me, from the album Walkin’, by Miles Davis. I’ve given the drum solo breaks only: The ties are due to some kind […]
Listening: Miles Davis — In A Silent Way
This guy’s copy is in a little too good condition for my taste. Following another Twitter conversation begun by Ethan Iverson, I listened to Miles Davis’s album In A Silent Way, always one of my favorites, three […]
Very occasional quote of the day: making In A Silent Way
Guitarist John McLoughlin on recording In A Silent Way with Miles Davis. Classic art can be very instantaneous: […] I had gone to New York to play with Tony [Williams] and Larry [Young], and I […]
Philly Joe starts a chorus: The Theme
Another micro-transcription looking at how Philly Joe Jones plays the beginning of a chorus. The tune is The Theme, from the Miles Davis album Miles (what it says on the cover), or The New Miles […]