I'm sorry to git down, but you sound like one ignorant
motherfucker. To call Miles overrated is to know nothing
about jazz. I don't know how he "damaged" Coltrane's career,
either. Cecil Taylor holds no candle, and Ornette does show
genius, but he also shows no respect, by playing trumpet and
violin, without ever taking a lesson. Miles talks alot about
how he dug Ornette, btw.
Miles is almost single handedly responsible for John Lewis'
career. Not to mention how close he was to Gil Evans, the one
white man he loved. (And did countless albums with.)
His
"Birth Of the Cool" sides invented third stream in 1948-49!
Everything afterwards came outta those sides.
Likewise, Miles invented "fusion" in the sixties Why? Because
he felt music should be alive, and not exist inside some
mausoleum. Yeah, "jazz" was dead, then. But Miles was totally
into Sly and the Family Stone, and he was chasing Sly
throughout this period. Every great jazz musician of this
late stage apprenticed with Miles -- Keith Jarrett, John
McLaughlin, Chick Corea ... the list is endless.
I'm sorry, but I will brook no criticism of Miles. No matter
what Dizzy said. Miles always respected and loved Dizzy, but
I saw them all in the last years, and Dizzy's music, almost
always sucked. Miles, at least, had some moments. But in the
sixties, and early seventies -- those Miles sides are ...
total motherfuckers.
Todd Mason wrote:
>
to casually damage the careers of the likes of
> Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, and even John
Coltrane.
>
>
> The single most overrated figure in jazz, despite
being a genius, and it's
> notable how much the "unhip" 3rd Stream folk (Dave
Brubeck, John Lewis, Gil
> Evans, Chico Hamilton) reached out to and fostered
the free-jazz players,
> while Davis retreated into often self-indulgent
fusion, presumably the
> sterling counter-example to Coltrane, et al.'s,
"anti-jazz."
>
>
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