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An extremely dumb guid to “Which famous 60’s/70's Jazz man is that?”

1, Is it Piano lead or Brass lead? If piano go to question two. If brass question three.

2, Does the Pianist sound like he’s taken all the acid, or is there a guy making love to a clarinet?

Oh yeah: he’s taken all the acid alight. Is… is he okay? Thelonious Monk.

Oh yeah, some guy is going ham on a clarinet. Dave Burkbeck Quartet.

Neither of the above: Duke Ellington.

3, If brass lead: is it Louis Armstrong? If Yes, it’s Louis Armstrong. If no, question four.

4, Does the Trumpet player make you feel sad? Even, dare I say, Blue?

Almost? Chet Barker

Kind of? Miles Davies.

If no, question five.

5, Is the trumpet player trying to blow your face clean off? Like, actively trying to kill the first row of the audience? Dizzy Gillespie.

It’s brass led, but Sax not Trumpet.  

Okay, question 6, isolate the stings: is Charles Mingus doing what he’s actually paid to do in the back of the ensemble, or is he dicking around and seeing how far a man can take a double bass before his band-mates kill him?

Seems to be playing normally: Charlie Parker

He’s fucking around in F minor, and also that Bari sax is filthy! The Mingus Big band, with Ronnie Cuber on the Sax.

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Nina Simone, Miles Davis.

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Some Kind of Blue: Miles Davis

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Palpable

I look at the clock

It’s 5:32 am

My fingers brush against your thigh

My hand resting on your hip

I think of the times

In the middle of the night

I felt your fingers rapidly

Squeezing my arm

I would think she’s having

Her cat dream

like a cat dreaming.

I never told you

About the cat dream

I turn over

The clock shows 5:32 am

And the emptiness

Is palpable

There’s an entire world

Just outside my window

I would give it all

For the cat dream

Once more…

Forever more

Rollo©️Roberson2024

“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.

Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. 

Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts

me, all day

I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.”

Love Sonnet XII by Pablo Neruda

Photography ©️Rolloroberson 2024

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Miles Davis

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Miles Davis with his girlfriend Jackie Battle during the Isle of Wight Festival at Afton Down in England on August 29, 1970.

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Miles Davis, Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970).

Cover art: Mati Klarwein

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Miles Davis, So What, 1959

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Miles Davis in his NYC apartment, 1986.

Photo by Shigeru Uchiyama.

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/ Dennis Stock, Miles Davis at Birdland, 1958

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jazz sketchies i colored in digitally

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Miles Davis, Madrid, Photo by Serge Cohen, 1984

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Miles Davis

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Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)

Sixty-five years ago today, on August 17, 1959, Kind of Blue, the legendary album by the Miles Davis Sextet, was released. Featuring an all-star lineup of Davis, Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb, and Wynton Kelly on one track, the album is considered Davis’ masterpiece, the greatest jazz album ever recorded, and one of the best albums of all time. In addition, it is certainly also one of the most popular and influential jazz albums of all time, with its legacy extending well beyond the confines of jazz. Timeless and perfect, Kind of Blue is, as one reviewer put it, a “defining moment of twentieth century music”.