As far as I know, Miles Davis never recorded his Oriental-sounding composition 'Nardis' but here are three versions by Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley & the George Russell Sextet. Are there any others?
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There's a nice on one the 1968 Neil Ardley New Jazz Orchestra recording "Dejeuner sur l'Herbe" - an Ardley arrangement iirc.
Oh, and the one on the wonderful George Russell Sextet "Ezz-thetics" album of 1961, with Eric Dolphy, Don Ellis and co which I have before me. Hmm - time to hear again. -
....Ah haa....the Phrygian dominant scale....bong chingComment
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Joe Henderson recorded a very cool sextet version on his "The Kicker" album in '67. (Milestone). I think its now quite an attractive "standard" so a lot of people have picked up on it...Phil Woods, Hank Jones, Charlie Haden etc.
There was a suggestion on Organissimo a few years back that Miles got the title from a then US fashion house "Nardis" that made some rather attractive women's dresses etc. Miles being a fashionista and him and Cannonball dressing up as "ladies" is their spare time. The REAL reason Philly Joe left...
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Morticia! You spoke French!!!Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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....I rec' sponging the 'S' bend until almost clear of water, then applying a good deal of elbow grease and classic Ajax powder on a metal scouring pad....Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Postbong chingComment
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That's scraping the bottom rather, isn't it??Originally posted by eighthobstruction View PostComment
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....failing that, spread a bit of this....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNxtkpy03Ckbong chingComment
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I managed to pick up the album with that on at the last-ever Bracknell Festival. Pat Thomas came over and said: "AAARGH! You have THAT!? I've been searching for that for ever since I can remember. How much will you sell it me for?" I told him I'd do him a cassette and hand it to him when he came down to play at our gig the following weekend. When I did so, he said, "That's all right - I've got it!" Pat was slim in those days and in appearance like a better-dressed Herbie Hancock - none of today's puffa jacket and woolly Rasta mad hatter of cluster cruncher fame; very a la mode.Originally posted by eighthobstruction View PostComment
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....it's a top album....(what's that in todays parlance....we've gone past 'sick' I believe....)....<probably requires a ? in their somewhere....>bong chingComment
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I think I paid 20 smackers for it back in '88!Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
Speaking of spreading Nutella, this will probably be the swansong they play for me when I go:
I much prefer the Cleo Laine 1955 version that used to be on utube to thissun, but neither has much to do with Nardis except "Nar dis am what I's sayin', if ya get me".Comment
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....the greatest gift that we possess....bong chingComment
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"Roy Plomey (Desert Island Discs) audibly blushed when he thought Brigitte Bardot’s luxury item –‘A Piness’ – was too rude to broadcast - but it was, she’s insisted in her thick French accent, ‘what we whole world needs most – ’appiness!’ BBC retrospective.Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
Salute Brigitte! So, not Ken Dodd then...
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I wonder how my French lady friend would react if I told her this story.
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Ralph Towner
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