Monday, February 4th

by musicclipoftheday

Miles

Miles Davis Quintet (MD, trumpet; Wayne Shorter, tenor saxophone; Herbie Hancock, piano, Ron Carter, bass; Tony Williams, drums), live, Europe (Karlsruhe, Germany; Stockholm, Sweden), 1967

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lagniappe

musical thoughts

Miles may not be the greatest trumpet player in the history of jazz, but he’s arguably the greatest bandleader. Only someone with supreme self-confidence could do what he did. A brilliant judge of talent, a leader who expected, and enabled, others to flourish, he could seem, at times, the least interesting player in his own band.

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reading table

Winter solitude—
in a world of one color
the sound of wind.

—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694, translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)