[lbo-talk] jazz history

[Mark Bennett]

Not a bad article, but I don't hear a whole lot of Red Garland's left hand
on Kind of Blue, except perhaps for the track where Wynton Kelly took over
for Bill Evans, "Freddie Freeloader".   And Evans didn't "claim" much of the
"aesthetic credit" for Kind of Blue; it was more that Miles claimed most of
the credit and ignored the contributions of everyone else.  Miles was
notoriously for doing that, from The Birth of the Cool on.  Evans never made
a big deal of it; he simply answered questions about the origins of the
tunes when he was asked.  He did write the original liner notes, after all,
so he clearly was deeply involved in the making of the disc.

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Chuck Grimes <c123grimes at att.net> wrote:


> Below is a link to a brief history of jazz in the 50s-60s which includes
> just about everybody I followed (who didn't) when I first discovered them on
> an obscure FM channel in LA. The first albums I bought were Sketches of
> Spain, Kind of Blue, My Favorite Things, and Something Else.
>
> http://www.counterpunch.org/**2011/09/23/groove-on-the-**tracks/<http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/23/groove-on-the-tracks/>
>
> For me, they all caught the period exactly right. You could only dream of
> being that good. I had no idea what it cost them. Well I sort of did, but
> didn't
> want to dwell on it. As a side note Red Garland deserves all the credit St.
> Clair gives him
>
> CG
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