tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post5398432201414725416..comments2024-03-28T19:52:07.635-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: NPR KIND OF dribbles BLUE...Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-70520848601099579842010-05-13T12:02:12.729-04:002010-05-13T12:02:12.729-04:00Glad you liked the post...and while the fusion alb...Glad you liked the post...and while the fusion albums are the least favored by me of Davis's records (but I like the earlier adventurous ones a little better than the duller funk ones later on...it helped that he was working with some promising folks early on, less true with the later ones), I can certainly see preferring them to KOB, if 1950s jazz isn't one of one's musical "homes"...also amusing, given Davis's noises about how the free players, including Coltrane, were playing "anti-jazz," how much his early fusion albums resembled free jazz, ten years later...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-7021284649416944362010-05-12T23:02:28.163-04:002010-05-12T23:02:28.163-04:00Great blog post. Although I've always enjoyed ...Great blog post. Although I've always enjoyed the electric albums more (Bitches Brew, On the Corner), Kind of Blue is cool too.michael a. gonzaleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09639621894455376324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-69053719820421032482010-05-11T16:47:16.687-04:002010-05-11T16:47:16.687-04:00Well, you'd like a lot of Davis in the latter ...Well, you'd like a lot of Davis in the latter '50s, when he got his chops up (and learned that he would never be as pyrotechnically dexterous as a Dizzy Gillespie, so went for melodious approaches instead) and the early '60s, before he started to move toward fusion that wasn't as interesting as that of many other folks' fusion recordings. The Gil Evans Orchestra album PORGY AND BESS, some of his last Prestige records such as WORKIN' and STEAMIN', CBS releases such as ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT and on up to about NEFERTITI. Mosaic's COMPLETE BLACKHAWK sessions, and, of course, KIND OF BLUE, to hear the best quintet Davis had, with Evans, Coltrane, Chambers...Philly Joe Jones when he was there.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-62194080714784109752010-05-11T16:16:10.429-04:002010-05-11T16:16:10.429-04:00Never been a Miles Davis fan. I like Monk, Evans, ...Never been a Miles Davis fan. I like Monk, Evans, Brubeck and a bunch of others a lot more. I like me a tune, I guess.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.com