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Well, I haven't read this whole thread yet, and I guess I can understand why someone who was into Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan MIGHT NOT be into Miles. . . . But it's the opposite for me, I love Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan, but I listen to Miles more because he has more to offer ME. Like Jim I believe that Miles' chops were often superb and he played what he wanted to play. His timing as Jim also mentioned was amazing, a sixth sense that he had. And his leadership abilities were part of his entire musical being. He was a sculptor of sound, and like Elllington a masterful painter of the blues. He was a person who through intimidation, encouragement and perhaps even disdain brought out the very best in those on his payroll. He had a lot of tricks to use to create the architecture he wanted within his sessions. I put on Miles records to listen to MILES as often as not. I think I always will. I don't even think of him as a trumpet player in a way that I would Brownie or Mogie or Hargrove. I think of him more as just a musician/leader, more as I think of Armstrong in the period I listen to him most (the second half of his career), a consumate thinker and acter on musical ideas and feeling. And I think of Miles as a singer in a way.

I beg to differ. I'm not fooled, and none of it is in the least funny as far as I'm concerned. About as funny as kindergarden teasing!

I'm with you Guy. And on "Isn't It About that Time" on In A Silent Way Miles plays a solo that has been in my head ever since I heard it. It's funky, it's so well executed, it's like ten times better than anything I ever heard Lee Morgan do (for my taste, at least)! Miles was REALLY coming into his own coming out of the sixties and into the seventies!

Here's someone else's imaginitive idea:

That photo DOES exist.

It's very easy. I just move my lips.

Miles Davis.

I'd want Helen Merrill to be my producer, and we'd sit down and work out the musicians together. I'd lobby strongly for Jim Sangry and Andrew Griffith and Shawn Dudley.

Sure, I'm the one that has to come to reality, while you have all your multiple personalities popping up all over the place TRYING LIKE HELL to be funny. Keep trying! Come on Weiz, who ARE you fooling?

I don't think it's an insane thing to think at all Weizy, I mean Freudie baby, I mean Reddy Freudie, I mean . . . .

I've grown to really love her. I sure do "remember" her! Wouldn't you have liked to have spent a few nights out on the town with Lee and Bunny Berigan?

I think he's the Red Menace. Ban 'em all!

I love Miles. The reasons others don't like him may be the fuel for my ardor. That's cool. I'll be listening to Miles for the next few decades, I hope, and I hope I keep, as I did this week, discovering new Miles recordings to listen to. It bothers me not that others may not like him. They don't have to defend themselves. But even if (and it's so much deeper than that) it were only because Miles was one of the pathfinders led me to the whole world of jazz, Miles will always be a part of my musical world.

I had one, sold it. This was also being given away by Columbia to the first 300 people or so who responded with a postcard included in the Davis/Evans seet, you could chose a lithograph of the cover image or a copy of this cd. I went with the lithograph. Probably should have gotten the cd: the lithograph ended up costing me 250 dollars because my wife had it framed to that tune!

I'd love to hear that concert that had Shepp, Ayler and Trane. Among other things. . . . Like a lot more of Billie with Basie. . . .

You'll regard it as the classic it really is before too long!

And I'm a big fan of your diplomatic demeanor and your admiration for Michael Cuscuna.

I'm listening to Festival Session right now and you'll enjoy this one, no doubt!

Uh oh. . . now you're in for it. . . Ellington Jones really hurt bad and you'll do ANYTHING for a fix!

I know that Ghost of Miles received a wrong cd and mailed it back. . . hopefully he'll chime in on how the experience was/is coming along. This is a great great cd!

What's so odd about the disc "labels"--Columbias been doing this for years. . . .

Sort of like Jazz Party, yeah, in a way, without Guest Stars. . . . It's a rocking date in killer sound! Jimmy Johnson and Sam Woodyard tears up some drums too.

I'm intersted in hearing it too. It might be good. Who knows. In my opinion he's made good ones before. I wish it WEREN'T a quartet though; I'd like to hear more horns.

Hell, he's just waiting for another tumbleweed to come along his line of sight! It's worse than a Hollywood set of a ghost town over yonder!