Currently listening to the Electric Miles programme. Frelon Brun just played but Geoffrey Smith wrongly said it was Herbie Hancock on keyboard (it's Chick Corea).
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Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
- thanks for that, Joseph; I wouldn't've known.
I greatly enjoyed the programme, but was disappointed that they kept cutting off the longer pieces before their prime. Is there a Jazz programme in which such works are performed in full, non-stop? And if not, why not? (Imagine a Radio 3 programme that faded out ten minutes into Verklarte Nacht! Oh - that's Essential Classics, isn't it.
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Not surprised you couldn't tell the difference but Chic sounded very different with Miles on the road, sometimes playing a Hohner keyboard. (In the link below a commenter says its a Fender Rhodes on that piece). He often didn't play "pianistically" at all
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If there's one thing I can't stand on jazz programmes it's incomplete tracks being played which is an insult to the artist.Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post - thanks for that, Joseph; I wouldn't've known.
I greatly enjoyed the programme, but was disappointed that they kept cutting off the longer pieces before their prime. Is there a Jazz programme in which such works are performed in full, non-stop? And if not, why not? (Imagine a Radio 3 programme that faded out ten minutes into Verklarte Nacht! Oh - that's Essential Classics, isn't it.)
Classical music never seems to get this treatment.
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I know of no other Free source than Youtube:Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post - thanks for that, Joseph; I wouldn't've known.
I greatly enjoyed the programme, but was disappointed that they kept cutting off the longer pieces before their prime. Is there a Jazz programme in which such works are performed in full, non-stop? And if not, why not? (Imagine a Radio 3 programme that faded out ten minutes into Verklarte Nacht! Oh - that's Essential Classics, isn't it.)
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Yes indeeedee....criminal, second class citizens....they just think we are a load of music floozies/flappers....never never in the field of conflict....etc ....beaches blaalaaa laa ....scadee bee do da day shawooza....Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post - thanks for that, Joseph; I wouldn't've known.
I greatly enjoyed the programme, but was disappointed that they kept cutting off the longer pieces before their prime. Is there a Jazz programme in which such works are performed in full, non-stop? And if not, why not? (Imagine a Radio 3 programme that faded out ten minutes into Verklarte Nacht! Oh - that's Essential Classics, isn't it.)
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Indeed it was quite a bone of contention on the original vinyl sleeve. I've atually altered mine - thereby probably devaluing its potential Southeby's selling price.Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
I was surprised given the programme's usual scrupulous attention to historical accuracy, especially over a matter of such crucial importance in the transitions of style and personnel the programme was there to detail, there being plenty of places where GS could have found the accurate information.
I was disappointed on a whole with this programme, particularly with the choice of mostly uninteresting, even somewhat monochromatic tracks, in the period when new timbral resources were being exploited and combined beyond just bass guitar and wah-wah. And it only covered the period between 1968 and 1971, I think. It could have gone on to include "Pangea" and "Agartha", which would have meant at least up to the period of Miles's total absence from the scene (1976-1980). It would have given listeners a chance to compare what Miles was doing - which was not so easily packageable into broadcastable tracks at the time - and the much more publicised work of his acolytes in Weather Report, Return to Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Headhunters.Comment
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No complaints from me regarding the tracks - Frelon Brun, In a Silent Way/It's about that time, Miles Runs the Voodoo Down and I've just got up to the point where Sanctuary has finished - all of these are amazing. I'd say it would be far more difficult to go wrong in choosing tracks of this period. And I would say the time between the years you mention are much more fruitful than the following four years for Miles... I don't listen to On the Corner that much, nor that the albums that follow it...Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostComment
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