Miles Davis Quintet - 1967 - Footprints

shorter writes badass songs

he is a genius improvisor too, some of the most interesting ideas I've heard

Hey "brewepau" you only say that because you haven't heard my band play yet. Check out my solo on our video, "Exception To The Gruel" for a lesson on what jazz is really all about.

"The egg-scramblers knew who everyone was talking about." -Wayne Shorter

What is so brillant too in the solo of Wayne Shorter is also the way Herbie, Ron and Tony follow him so fast!

One of the genius aspects of Miles is that he understood if he let Tony play how he did that it would let the music go to these places. If he told Tony to "just play some motherf#%kin time" this shit wouldn't have happened.

haha he would have said it like that too

lol hmm actually from what i was reading the other day Davis had to force williams to play like that, when he first joined he played traditionally behind miles and only went crazy for colemen, so davis turned around and was like "what don't you fuckin play like that for me?" and aparently davis also said during Seven Steps of Heaven, williams never used the bass drum, so he made him. Davis partly picked these young kids just so he could manipulate them, "old musicians are too stubborn"

cool story, bro.

Thank you, shoegazer.