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is Miles Davis God?

post #1 of 19
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Does anyone know? He just played the first solo on Love for Sale... now it's Cannonball's turn... he lays it out... here comes Trane... in top form as usual... he jumps around the chords, never quite laying the foundation, but always tickling the outer regions... Trane is surfing the winds... now he's coming round... ok, here's Bill Evans... wow... i really lost my train of thought there... i'm on the next song now... If I were I Bell...

Miles is on mute.... a little back from the mic... this is live.... on Columbia... .. . well.. . I just skipped to Someday my Prince will come.. Wynton Kelly has the intro...now it's Miles doing the header... really sweet......

I listen.

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complex tones... caressing the chords... Miles is... gently
and he goes... here we go... together... across the fruity plains... time to here a little bit of some Hank...

Hank Mobley is loving it... you can hear it in his tone... each blessed moment a triumph for the joy of mankind... he seeks the thrill... you can tell...

all around he goes... like my toes... Wynton Kelly has the solo... his floating down the stream... you can see the steam... I really like it, man. Now I'm wondering...

Where will it go?

Back to the head. Here's Miles again.. playing that melody so clean... and trane sobs his mow... you feel it grow... the loving grows... over the hills we sow... to see the morrow of day in light his hay will ever seek the way, can't complain, hey, it's nothing sacred, just some hay, hey. He's turning around, see's the ground, topples cross the mountain, like a fountain, onto the lint he grins like sinning mints... I find... Miles is back to me...

Singing his glee, he loves to spread his sound across mound real round... Wynton has the moment

It's thrilling and I'm still in my exception.. tense as it is I await the next one... here it comes... and there it goes...
pop...
that's it

What do you think?
post #2 of 19
after his version of michael jackson's "human nature" made me throw up in my mouth a little bit... i'd say no.

but overall... i'd place him in the top five, maybe even top three, after coltrane and monk.
post #3 of 19
sure he is, just ask him.
post #4 of 19
He died, you know...

I'm not sure about the ascension part.
post #5 of 19
human nature. yeah that was bad. even worse than him covering "time after time" by Cyndi Lauper.


but listen to him in his years with Coltrane. if Miles is God, then Coltrane was his prophet.
post #6 of 19
Would God say things like “I still got my Ferrari.” or “So what?”
post #7 of 19
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Originally Posted by Jahn
human nature. yeah that was bad. even worse than him covering "time after time" by Cyndi Lauper.


but listen to him in his years with Coltrane. if Miles is God, then Coltrane was his prophet.

Actually Miles isn't even in the trinity, it is Coltrane, Sanders, and Ayler as the father, son, and holy ghost respectively.
post #8 of 19
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What do you think?
I think that God should have better taste....

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0...1.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Amicalement
post #9 of 19
Coltrane for God!
post #10 of 19
After Bitches Brew, I have my doubts.
post #11 of 19
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Originally Posted by Genetic
I think that God should have better taste....

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0...1.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Amicalement
ROFL
post #12 of 19
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Originally Posted by Bunnyears
After Bitches Brew, I have my doubts.
before and up to, I have mine!!
post #13 of 19
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Originally Posted by MichaelFranks
before and up to, I have mine!!
i have to concur, for the most part. i enjoy some of his quintet stuff, and when i wanna romance the ladies (well.... lady), i'll throw on Birth of the Cool. but Kind of Blue never really did it for me. davis has never moved me the way j coltrane, t monk, c mingus, o coleman and e dolphy do.
post #14 of 19
Thread Starter 
Every player is God when (s)he's got enough skill and creativity to express himself through the horn spontaneously...

the intangible living quality of the music produced is proof enough of God in all things and consciousness of God in the minds and hearts of human beings. Please call 1-800-CHEESUS and then hit CRUST when you hear the tone. Thanks.

the magic is in the diagonal lines
post #15 of 19
In 1987 Davis attended a reception in honor of Ray Charles at Ronald Reagan's White House. A Washington society lady, seated next to him, asked him what he had done to be invited. "Well," Davis replied, "I've changed music four or five times. What have you done of any importance other than be white?"


Can't argue with the guy.
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