ALBUM: Milesones (1958)
MVC Rating: 5.0/$$$$$
ALBUM: Milestones (1958)
MVC Rating: 5.0/$$$$$
I don’t know if it’s a Lewy thing but I’m enjoying this jazz more than ever. I’ve played this Miles record, both sides about five times in the past two days. It’s old new jazz. (Also jumped into a Dizzy Gillespie record, I’ll review in the G’s.}
It’s modern jazz, sometimes ‘played too darn fast’ Chuck Berry famously complained. It’s modern but it’s 1958, a year before I was born and a year before Davis gave us his masterpiece (IMHO) ‘Kind of Blue.’
But this one with Cannonball Adderly and John Coltrane burned pretty well. I gave it a ‘5’ anyway. I remember buying this used at some kind of flea market in Anniston, AL. Would have been 1982. I knew who Davis was but upon seeing the cover photo I felt like I had to have the album. Pretty intense and cool looking dude. And that’s what his music looks and sounds like: Him.
Below, Miles and company play:
Counting down my 678 vinyl records before I die of brain disease.