Let’s start things up with Miles Davis’ “Ife”.
In live performance, this piece inevitably sounded different from the version found on the LP On the Corner.
The iteration formed something of a basis for “Gondwana” on the Pangaea LP. He’d perform it periodically in the early 1980s after he came out of a self-imposed retirement, although by that point, the piece no longer had that menacing vibe that made it such a fascinating listen in the first place.
Okay. You know what to do, y’all.
Don Cherry from the mid-1970s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls1ddrT7HPc
More mid-1970s Don Cherry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROzbYANw1_g
I probably would have never gotten into jazz had it not been for my dad. Yeah, my tastes were likely to reflect my age cohort, but I was well aware of Dizzy, etc. Watched a lot of PBS footage of jazz fests with my dad when I was a kid in the 1970s. Never got whatever the theories were supposed to be. Just understood intuitively a vibe. That and some wonderful memories of someone very important to me.
Nice.
Howzabout Lady Day?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYUqbnk7tCY
Recommended by Michael Ray.
Recommended by Michael Ray.
Recommended by Michael Ray.