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I took "3 Shades of Blue" out from the library, and just finished it. The author had little knowledge about jazz until he was assigned to do an interview with Miles Davis for Vanity Fair in 1989. All he knew about Miles was that he had played with Bird in the 40s. The author, James Kaplan, had two Miles albums in his (mostly rock) record collection, Bitches Brew and Filles de Kilimanjaro, so don't expect an expert's book Basically, it's a bio of Trane ,Miles and Evans. and how they came together in 1958-9, and what happened to them until their dying days. It's written for the general public so maybe it will get some people interested in post Swing jazz who never were into it. It only spends eighteen pages on Kind of Blue, so I think people were misled to think it was only about that album. Most of the technical parts on jazz were quoted from interviews with musicians, and the well-known bios of the three musicians it centered on, but there was a lot of stuuff about Monk, Diz, Max, etc...There was confirmation of stories that you might have thought were rumors-e.g. Miles did tell Bill Evans he had to f*** all the members of the band, not give them blow jobs. Evans had to think for 30 minutes before telling Miles that he didn't think he could do it, and they all laughed their heads off at him!LOL. There are a lot of inside views of things from musicians  that I never heard before e.g. John Lewis was behind getting Ornette and Cherry to The Lennox School of Jazz, and got Nesuhi Ertegun to pay for their airfare and tuition to raise their profile on the East Coast. Max Roach did indeed knock out Ornette with one punch, but he didn't beat him up at Ornette's  hotel afterwards. He just yelled at him from outside the hotel that he was gonna beat his ass in if he came out of his hotel room Miles hated Ornette's playing up till the end, and. Coltrane did indeed use LSD at the end of his life. Sonny went to the bridge to simply get his playing together, and Trane was a close friend of his, not a rival. Miles' penchant for lying is taken into account, and everything he says is investigated with that in mind, although his claim to writing Donna Lee is not questioned at all. So I'd recommend this book as a fun read for anyone interested in learning more about these three dudes and everyone they played with. The profound insights only come from the musicians interviewed; not from Kaplan.

Al most all of the batteries I've had leak in remotes have been AA & AAA Duracell batteries.

What is a "chalkboard"?

I really hate that trio date, especially the tune where he gets stuck. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard for me.

Ike Quebec “Bossa Nova Soul Samba” Blue Note Japan 24 Bit by RVG lp facsimile cd I love this session so much. I discovered today that I have TWO copies of this 24 Bit by RVG, and I know I have another Japanese cd. One that I haven’t gotten that I might one day when I feel a big splurge possible is the Analogue Productions SACD which I bet sounds great.   [IMG]600×600 50.4 KB