Miles Davis died on this day in 1991.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not a fact I have in memory; I heard it on the local Jazz station today at noon as I was driving downtown for lunch.<\/p>\n
By 1991, I was aware of Miles only as an image on a stage blowing long (by that time, high, often shrill) notes that went on for days.\u00c2\u00a0 Only in the last couple years have I become aware of Miles’ earlier work, an awareness that necessarily begets an understanding of how profoundly his musicianship influenced the one true American art form.<\/p>\n
Miles was the third male in his family to get the name.\u00c2\u00a0 When I was reminded today of the anniversary of his death, I wondered if his grandfather ever had any inkling of what he would become (Miles was the son of a well-off dentist father and Jazz pianist mother who hid her talent from him in the hope he’d stick with his violin lessons).<\/p>\n
Someday I’ll be a seldom-read footnote in Ava’s biography.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe sooner than I could guess.\u00c2\u00a0 If you have it at home, throw on “So What” and crank it up loud.\u00c2\u00a0 If you don’t have it, go get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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