Fools in love, well are there any other kind of lovers?

beautiful (smoke-induced?) smile...

 On_The_Beach wrote: 

AMEN JOHN!! (add milton & dorham for me and I'll be island VP )

 coloradojohn wrote: 

thank you thank you THANK YOU bill & bec.  You have made my day.  Follow up with some Nick Drake, I may have to leave work for the casino.

Taxi Driver-ish. 
Me likey. In the berries and bananas category of comparison, this has way more soul but just a fraction of Arcade Fire's noise. 

I always feel there is something magical- or even a little disturbing about this piece of music. Like its from another dimension.

 rdo wrote: 

It all depends on how its cooked and presented ...spinach comes in all shapes and forms as in 'Esccofiers Culinary Bible.' :-)

Like a slow and delicious slippery slope ...

If I had this, along with Kind of Blue, some 'Trane, Baker, a bit of Mingus, Dolphy and Blakey...I could do a desert-island lifetime or two...!

I like the work Miles did. If you don't, there's a PSD button and a whole world of other stations to listen to.

An incredibly beautiful piece of music. Draws me to the speakers from whatever room I'm in...

 On_The_Beach wrote: 
In his later years, Miles should his back side to the audience.

 Toke wrote: 
Speaking as a charter member of the Jazz Haters Club, I am well aware of what you claim, it is an undisputed fact.  I'd venture this applies for many, perhaps most, professional writers as well.  Does that mean I must eat your spinach and like it?  No sir, it don't. 

 Carl wrote: 
Miles was very image-conscious from the beginning, and he did not like to be photographed smiling. He didn't like the "happy-go-lucky" image portrayed by Louis Armstrong and others, which he felt catered to the safe post-minstrel image of blacks that white society felt comfortable with ("Song of the South" anyone?). Of course when one is almost never seen smiling, it's such a pleasant change to see them when they are. That's what's great about this photo; Miles actually let his guard down for a second and showed his warmer side.

Miles seems to always do such cool songs.

This is cool...

 

This is exactly why every other radio station I listen to pales in comparison to Radio Paradise. You will just pop in some Nature Boy. LOVE.

Nothing better than Miles, ever.. and this song? wow... a 10 he is the best ever..... just the perfect musician

 Misterfixit wrote: 
It sounds like it came from someone trying to make a "political statement".

 jbjnr wrote: 
There's more where that came from. I love his work from the mid-50's and the 60's. He loses me with the fusion stuff in the 70's, but I appreciate his desire to keep changing, to keep trying new stuff.

 Misterfixit wrote: 
I think that idea must have been retrieved from a posterior holding facility.

wow! I finally heard a Miles Davis track that I like.

(That new medication must be better than I thought)

marvelous...  love it...

 

 rKokon wrote:
Wow. This post the 3+ years old and still gets reactions. As a musician, I'll only suggest that jazz is as difficult a genre to learn as any, including varying forms of classical and romantic orchestral literature. And Miles (love that pic BTW—one of the very few I've seen in which he's actually smiling), along with massive talents like Coltrane, Louis, Django, Bill Evans, Mingus (and many more—the list goes on), plumbed its depths with a singularity of purpose that in its way defined the last half of the 20th century. I don't pretend to understand but a fraction of what I hear, but I'm in awe of what little I do understand.

And, son, in my 7th decade, I'm pretty sure that I've had a conscious purpose to my life, and I love jazz.

Happy New Year, all!!

 Aural_not_Oral wrote: 

Ummmm such negative comments I'm reading here... Can I just draw your attention to a significant observation and I'm sure I will be backed up on this and that is that 99% of Classical musicians worldwide choose Modern Jazz as their second Genre of music and to take a break from playing classical they play jazz for fun as its so interlocked with the great composers.. But that could well be a highbrow statement.

 Dinges,_the_Dude wrote: 
I just checked out your neighborhood. Nice!

Soooo smooth...  everybody in my hotel room loves this jazz...

 

Smooth relaxing !!!!!

I think this may be one of the best photos of Miles I ever saw (taken by Tom Palumbo)

After perusing some of the comments herein am I to assume that some feel Jazz Music is a "political statement"?  Just wondering where that idea came from?