Thanks to Rob Fife for hipping me to this through a Facebook post. Not only do you get to watch Miles and Trane at their best (not to mention Paul Chambers lead in and exit—wish he'd had a long solo too though) but on a composition and arrangement that tops any soundtrack of my life. [And if the date is correct on the video this was shot at the time of the original recording!]
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2000 American Book Award winner
1997 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award "for Excellence in Literature"
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When I was 10,
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—an Irish-Black-
Queer-Movie-Star.
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7 comments:
What else can I say but, "THANKS," for posting this video. It delivers the goods, and, damn, look how young they all were.
Shem The Penman
Yeah, Trane's solo is especially amazing. For my taste this was all of them at their peak, especially re the cool factor...
The title to your post says it all.
~ Willy
Ditto to all comments above, and I'll add how amazingly relaxed they appear (Miles standing around smoking while Trane blows) while creating some of the best music of all time!
Ah, my most important artistic hero! I was around 13 yrs. old at that time and just discovering jazz and had been writing poems for a few years. I think "Milestones" and "Miles Ahead" were the first 2 music albums I bought. What I learned from Miles when I was a kid is artistic integrity which I hope has followed me through the years.
I think this was from a CBS broadcast back then.
There was another tv program out of NYC back in those days called "Camera 3" which focused on the arts and was shown on Sunday mornings around 10:30 a.m. One episode from around 1962 featured an in-studio performance of the Bill Evans Trio (w/ Scott La Faro on bass). I had a small reel to reel tape recorder and hooked it directly to the tv speaker with aligator clips and made a beautiful recording of the show. Eventually I accidentally recorded over it but still have most of their performance of "Waltz For Debbie". I've tried searching for that show on the internet for years, to no avail.
Tv was and is a vast wasteland but there are some real treasures hidden in it's archive.
Bob Phillips
Ha! Just did some googling and found two youtube videos that appear to be from the Camera 3 program (Nardis and Blue In Green) from 1962. Terrible video and sound. It also notes the bassist as Chuck Israels and not La Faro. Nice to know that it exists in some form or another.
Bob
Hey- I wonder where that genius comes from- heart, brain, soul, life experiences??? All maybe & lots of work too but it seems to just flow out of them so pure and naturally- loved the music & watching them in action, beautiful faces and expression- essence of cool.
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