Incredibly important and exciting news. My friend, colleague, and fellow blogger, Mrs. McPea, recently found this oddly familiar-looking thing in her bag of Cheetos: That, ladies and gentlemen, is Miles Davis. Oh yes it is. Look at the cover of one of his most celebrated albums, Sketches of Spain: See?? Miles died in 1991. What we have here is nothing …
Kind of Blue at 50
After talking about Christian McBride’s Kind of Brown a little while ago (which, by the way, was just as good as I thought it would be), I came across this on You Tube recently. The footage of So What on this film was recorded for TV (“The Sound of Miles Davis”) about 4 weeks after Kind of Blue itself was recorded. …