Miles Davis reviewed by Stanley Crouch in New Republic
Marc Barman
In article <8...@buddha.ncc.umn.edu> j...@buddha.UUCP (James Barnett) writes:
> [...] Miles would say
> things like, "You don't have to play EVERYTHING." What it probably
> meant was, that Trane would play very long and winding solos, whereas
> Miles would rather have him distill them into tighter statements.
What is meant was that Trane would load all of the scale and alternate
scale tones onto the change, sometimes packing notes in groups of 7 or
9 on a beat just to fit them in (this gave rise to the "sheets of sound"
label).
Marc Barman
Hewlett Packard Co.
Palo Alto, CA
bar...@hpcea.hplabs.hp.com
Nathan Shafer
> [...] Miles would say
> things like, "You don't have to play EVERYTHING." What it probably
> meant was, that Trane would play very long and winding solos, whereas
> Miles would rather have him distill them into tighter statements.
Couple of my favorite Miles n'Coltrane stories:
1) One night at a gig, Coltrane played amazingly well, so well in fact
that Miles, after the gig, took Coltrane out into the alley behind
the club to "have a talk" with him, and beat the snot out of him.
2) Miles once asked Trane why he played so much. Trane said he didn't
know, but that once he started playing, once he got his ideas flowing,
he didn't know how to stop playing.
Miles's response?
[hoarse voice] "Take the horn outcha mouth."