Miles Davis - Billy Boy

From the album Milestones.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Miles
• davis
• jazz
• oldies

[TheEazyDuzIt95]

Pretty meh song to be honest

[Cidique]

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

[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

[mharbaugh]

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

[waynebij]

yeah

[tambourDOM]

Would this be considered bebop?

[KarsaViktor]

Red Garland, yeah! :)

[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!