Miles Davis - Billy Boy

[waynebij]

yeah

[tambourDOM]

Would this be considered bebop?

[KarsaViktor]

Red Garland, yeah! :)

[TheEazyDuzIt95]

Pretty meh song to be honest

[Cidique]

@TheEazyDuzIt95 Hahaha, can't believe this - a hatepost on a jazz video :D I like you!

[TheEazyDuzIt95]

@Cidique Well it's not that the song is bad, it's just that it's a little upbeat for my tastes, also there aren't any horns which I find to be the best aspect of Miles Davis songs.

[amenonmicapiscono]

Billy boy have been shot!

[mharbaugh]

I spent some time learning how to do Red Garland's block voicings. They're not very difficult, and they sound really authentic.

[elizuma544124]

Cidique@ that's funny! i find absoloutly nothing in commun between the two genres!?!

[Oceansandblue]

im learning this song on drums and solo as part of my audition for capilano university. my teacher friggen transcribed this drum solo like it was nothing!

[AT8747]

How come nobody's even mentioning the pianist, Red Garland ? He's the featured artist on this cut... not Jones or Chambers.

[Cidique]

@AT8747 What I'm talking about is that many of the first heavy metal bands were listening a lot to jazz and blues, so these two were very influentual for the original genre. Also, if you listen to some of the technical death metal around, Death, Illogicist and maybe Gorod, there's some common ground. Very technical, far-out riffing, which there also is a lot of in jazz, in solos and such.

[AT8747]

@Cidique

You may be right, but you won't find me listening to any of those artists...

Listening to too much of that stuff can make you sterile....

;-)

[Cidique]

@AT8747 Hahahaha :D

[ZackPomerleau]

@AT8747 I have to disagree with you, Jones, Garland, and Chambers are ALL the featured soloists. This song was meant to show off the full rhythm section. Chambers and Jones in my opinion was one of the best bass/drum duos of all time and Red just fills them out. I just wish Philly would have done more soloing with the brushes on this cut! Any chance there is some other cuts with him playing brushes?

[AT8747]

@ZackPomerleau

I hope you understand that I'm not putting down Chambers or Jones in any way, and I myself feel that Chambers was higher up in the bass community than Garland was in the piano community. But the format of the piece is pure jazz piano trio. The piano starts it , ends it, and occupys the majority of the time of the piece, with both the bass & drums having significant solos.

In reality however, all 3 of them are sidemen to Miles, Coltrane & Adderley.

[d2theutchgold2]

Paul Chambers was such a bad ass.

[Cidique]

I don't know much about jazz, I don't know much about the way old recordings were done, I don't know anything at all about jazz, to be honest. I just caught interest, because I was told that heavy metal (of all genres, and which is my favorite genre) was closely intertwined with jazz. That's how I found Miles Davis, and immediatly fell in love with this album, after buying it.

The point, the cover and booklet makes a big fuzz of the old recordings being masterfully restored. Glad you like it!

[explorations]

Cidique, your path and mine are exactly alike! I grew up a young metalhead, and got introduced to jazz because everyone was telling me that Jaco Pastorius was an incredible bassist. I bought his album, loved it, and then found out about Herbie Hancock, Miles, Sonny, Cannonball, Ornette, etc.

[ludwigvan17]

Yeah. Same here. After I listened to Zeppelin nonstop for my whole life, I wanted to to try something different for a change and I stumbled upon jazz. I've listened to equal doses of rock and jazz since then.

[Whatisthescore]

slayer?

[bassscape]

'The brushmaster Jo Jones'

...and the bowmaster Paul Chambers!

[ulfkulf]

The brushmaster Jo Jones.

[madchops82]

philly "joe" jones

[ulfkulf]

You mean "Philly" Joe Jones. But this is "Papa" Jo Jones.

[madchops82]

no sir, this is Philly Joe. I'd bet ya but I can't. Do ya homework.

[ulfkulf]

Yes, meant Philly Joe.

[Jazzman303]

Love this tune... the brushes sound so good