You want Cool?

erick (Eric) · #1 31-08-2009, 09:48 AM

Miles Davis and John Coltrane - OberCool!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlIU-2N7WY4

taminga16 (Greg) · #2 31-08-2009, 10:17 AM

Eric,

That track is now 50 years new.
When I was very young my father worked at night (he was a Jeweller-watchmaker) in a room next to my bedroom and he would listen to shortwave radio, Note for the very young, there was no 24 hour local radio service back then, Radio Luxemburg played a lot of Miles Davis. My kids listen to it now and I am sure that there kids will too.

Thanks, you have prompted some very early memories.

Regards,

Greg.

AstralTraveller (David) · #3 31-08-2009, 12:37 PM

That is from the best selling jazz album of all time and one of my favorites! I think Miles was a genius and that band was so so so good. I found a few pieces from 'Sketches of Spain' (probably my favorite Miles) on YouTube but none of a live performance.

Thanks for the post!

erick (Eric) · #4 31-08-2009, 12:44 PM

I've been working my way through the John Coltrane and Stan Getz clips. Love that smooth and soulful sax!

taminga16 (Greg) · #5 31-08-2009, 04:42 PM

Eric,

Julian 'Cannonball' Adderlley played Alto sax on the studio Version filling nicely with Coltrane, another sax player to look for is Tom Scott, he features on a lot of Michael Franks tracks and I think that he may have done some stuff with Steely Dan as well, Clarence Clemens tends to overplay with Springsteen but can be forgiven when you realise that a lot of those beautiful sax overlays on the Joan Armatrading tracks are his, I have a list but I will stop now.

Regards.

Greg.

erick (Eric) · #6 31-08-2009, 04:58 PM

Thanks Greg - some Youtube targets there for a start.