Quote of the Day (Chick Corea, on a Miles Davis Masterpiece)
"It's one fixation to just play a tune, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what Kind of Blue did."—Pianist Chick Corea, quoted in Ashley Kahn, Indulgent of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece.
Fifty years ago today, the final recording seating was held at Columbia Record's 30th Street Studio for what might be Miles Davis’s supreme moment as a jazz icon, Nice of Blue. The great trumpeter’s lineup included musicians who matched the standard set by Davis himself: “Cannonball” Adderley (alto saxophone), Paul Chambers (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums), John Coltrane (tenor saxophone), Wynton Kelly (piano), and my favorite of the classify, Bill Evans (piano).
For an excellent summary of why this recording became Davis’ biggest-selling LP—and one of Rolling Stone’s top 500 albums of all heretofore—please see John Edward Hasse’s account from two weeks ago in The Wall Street Journal.
The Brubeck Quartet, with the chief patriarch on grand piano, Bobby Militello on saxophone, Michael Moore on bass and Randy Jones on drums, is the headliner
Bruce Babad on tenor sax, pianist Ed Czach and Paul Kriebich on drums, the congregation will play great jazz inspired by the music of Cannonball and Coltrane
