Which is why I got to listen to the series "Soul Music" which collects together testimony from fans about how a particular piece of music "changed their life". Yes, it was a bit corny, but that didn't matter - today's piece was "So what" by Miles Davis.
The piece is half a century old now, and by all rights it should be Grandad Music, fit only to be played on TV drama soundtracks. It's also Jazz, which means it occupies a filing cabinet that is widely mistaken for a urinal these days.
(( Insert the usual Stan ravings here during which Stan will beg you to spend a tiny amount of your life listening to the piece that's got him excited. He's even likely to provide a link to YouTube to make it really easy for you. Stan will go on to deny he is a Jazzer, despite having posted on Humphrey Lyttleton and Nina Simone recently. He'll then change the subject to avoid alienating his long-suffering readership. ))If Jazz isn't your thing, you might at least check out Elbow - one of the few worthy winners of the Mercury prize in recent memory. I saw them on "Later ... with Jools Holland" here and they blew the walls down. Big, noisy, daft Rock from some big, noisy, daft lads from Bury, Lancashire.
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Nothing wrong with Spooks. Even less wrong with Jazz, and more particularly Miles Davies.
And if there's anything wrong with putting links in to pieces of music you love, I should have been hung years ago. Good music should be shared, and if your audience don't like it, they can not click the link again -- it's not like you've locked them in your car on a long journey and cranked up Eminem. ;)
A friend of mine makes a living doing audio/visual stuff for big corporate marketing events, especially product launches.. he takes great pleasure in playing 'So What' as (almost subliminal) background music at these events whenever possible.
Definitely a classic track, whether you're a jazz fan or not..
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I'm not sure I'd even be able to hold the horn knowing that once I've finished my riff, John Coltrane is up next. No pressure ...
On the recording I linked to, they were actually under-strength - missing Cannonball Adderley (migraine - yeah right) on alto and their first-choice pianist, Bill Evans.
Oh, and DrummerDave will never speak to me again if I didn't mention Jimmy Cobb, who is the only survivor of the group - still drumming at age 79.
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