Joyce ,'Never Leave Me'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
I think it's somewhere between krautrock & funk.
Which makes sense given Miles' main inspirations (Hendrix, Sly, JB & Stockhausen) for this portion of his career. And the band's resident Kraut, Joe Zawinul. Yeah, I know he's Austrian. Vienna native Billy Wilder had a great line: "The genius of the Austrian people: we've convinced the world that Beethoven was Austrian and Hitler was German."
I just loaned JJSessions Disc Five (which has the original album tracks on it) to the trumpet-playing jazzbo down the hall, who said "Joe Zawinul's on this, right? 'Cause he's the shit." Which cracks me up, because he's a trumpet guy more excited about Zawinul than Miles.
Is he one of the "Jeez, I have more chops than Miles" guys who just doesn't get it? My friend Bob is a jazz and classical trumpeter (he's a monster) and he said his Dad was like that ("Miles couldn't carry Dizzy's mouthpiece") despite Bob's thorough explanations as to why he was wrong.:-)
Calexico is on Soundcheck (WNYC.org) and is covering "ALone Again Or" as I type this.
Calexico is on Soundcheck (WNYC.org) and is covering "ALone Again Or" as I type this.
Their version is on an EP that came out recently.
This was an in-studio performance. Only 4 of the 6 guys were there.
Is he one of the "Jeez, I have more chops than Miles" guys who just doesn't get it? My friend Bob is a jazz and classical trumpeter (he's a monster) and he said his Dad was like that ("Miles couldn't carry Dizzy's mouthpiece") despite Bob's thorough explanations as to why he was wrong.:-)
Nah, he's a self-described Miles fanatic. I think he's more into the Bop period, though.
Oh yeah, I picked up Filles at your recommendation last year. And I can see exactly how "He Loved Him Madly" influenced Eno. I was pretty unprepared for the McLaughlin v. Sharrock guitarfest on the Jack Johnson Sessions. I mean, the album itself rocks like hell, but the Sessions are like Can with Thurston Moore sitting in.
Oh man, I've been meaning to pick this up. I guess now I HAVE to. JJ is one of my favorite of Miles' albums, if not my absolute favorite.
Actually, one of the "Willie Nelson" tracks has a fan-freakin-tastic Bop solo on it, now that I think about it.
Oh man, I've been meaning to pick this up. I guess now I HAVE to. JJ is one of my favorite of Miles' albums, if not my absolute favorite.
Yeah, man. It blew me away. I thought On the Corner was as good as it gets, but I was wrong, wrong, wrong. (edit - but, just for clarity, "He Loved Him Madly" is on Get Up With It, and GUWI seems pretty uneven.)
I thought On the Corner was as good as it gets, but I was wrong, wrong, wrong.
I've got the In A Silent Way sessions 4-disk (5?) release, which is quite good. However, the session stuff there tends towards the noodling (lots of Zawinul) - I think in that case they culled the right stuff for the actual album.