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09 September 2005

Gil Heron
posted by Specklet 09 September | 12:20
Sorry. I have been reading a website about Gil Evans. It makes Blue Note look fucking tiny. Really. Blame "Miles Davis?" No: Blame Bill Clinton for being such a hack on sax.
posted by Hugh Janus 09 September | 12:21
Nice!
posted by Cryptical Envelopment 09 September | 12:55
I'm just kidding around, Cryptical Envelopment. This is a great post -- I can't wait to send the link to my dad (he's the man! I mean, he's a serious bebop fan. But he's the man! too).

I can't believe how thorough this is. Just goes to show you how much the French love America.
posted by Hugh Janus 09 September | 13:01
We gotta convert the general populous (great word) to good music!
posted by Cryptical Envelopment 09 September | 13:12
You're just teasing, now.
posted by Hugh Janus 09 September | 13:21
Miles Davis always played flat. It must have been for a reason.

That is teasing.
posted by Cryptical Envelopment 09 September | 13:22
He must've been tuning to a baroque A or something. You know, around 438 Hz instead of the current way-too-bright >440 Hz A. Or a baroque B flat, being a trumpeter.

Maybe that's why everything sounds so appropriate on Sketches of Spain. Who'd a thunk jazz could evoke the renaissance?

Miles Davis, I guess.
posted by Hugh Janus 09 September | 13:35
*sigh*
posted by Cryptical Envelopment 09 September | 13:37
Sometimes I feel like that big widemouth bass that sits at the bottom of the lake with half a dozen severed lures poking out from his wide mouth.

Speaking of bass, I wonder what it is about Cuernavaca that made both Charles Mingus and Gil Evans go there to die.
posted by Hugh Janus 09 September | 13:48
I'll have to research that. Now I have to go lookin.

/gone fishin'
posted by Cryptical Envelopment 09 September | 14:15
Oh, this is sweet.
Nice post.
posted by caddis 09 September | 21:10
norwegian hip-hop summer hits || Defensive Marriage:

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