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- From: ujwb@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Jeff Beer)
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- Subject: Re: Jack Johnson and other things Miles....
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 12:02:50 -0600
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- In article <ALLMUSIC%93012702420348@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU> TBUCK@KNOX.BITNET writes:
- >P.S. Do you have the Complete Prestige Recordings box set? That's the one
- >part of the Miles catalog I haven't heard *any* of. How much of it is
- >really worth having? (I know, all of it is.) But really, I figure why buy
- >the albums piece-meal when someday I'll just buy the whole anchalada....
-
- yes, in fact some people insist that the 50s Miles is his greatest.
-
- of course, those are the people who live in the 50s jazz forever.
- Jazz stopped somewhere in the middle of a Coltrane solo....
-
- great stuff though, Workin, Steamin, Cookin' and Relaxin' have Coltrane
- and Red Garland, Mr. PC, and Philly Joe Jones. There's others too.
- I am not sure if there were some sessions with Monk, there were some,
- but I don't know if they are on Prestige. I think there was one on
- December 24, and there was an argument that broken out between Monk and
- Miles. They talk about it on the NRP radio project. If so, Monk takes
- a gem of a solo on a blues, not sure if it is Bag's Groove, but a medium
- slow blues in F.
-
- I don't know to what extent, but I think if it came down to blows, Monk
- could have taken Miles.
-
- I hear the best fighter in jazz is Elvin Jones. Even though he is in
- his 60, nobody should mess with him.
-
- The only thing about waiting, don't wait too long, things have a way of
- going out of print and disappearing in this world. There ought to be a
- Miles credit card, to be used only for buying Miles recordings.
-
- Jeff
-