Hey, fellow music lover. What an amazing documentary this is. Nothing concrete, yet everything is there, between the spaces, in the moments. Wonderful. My kind of master filmmaking. I love informal. Thank you for sharing!
Every time I listen the work of Miles Davis, there is something new to find, to achieve in the mind river we call memory. When waking up, that something we dunno what, was there and still is here.
This is great but Miles always should've had a guitarist in his band after '69, being that it was so essential to the music with John McLaughlin being almost indispensable on In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, Big Fun, Jack Johnson, and Live/Evil, to name a few. It wouldn't have to have been McLaughlin either, as there was so many great guitarists floating around in the Jazx-space at the time. Sonny Sharrock played on the Jack Johnson album and sessions so he could've been a good choice.
I could see him in the summer of 1991 at Budapest, at around this concert. Alas, I was too young to know and remember the band mates, but I suspect many from this list were present. The greatest musician ever.
I just finished the book '3 Shades of Blue' and while everything about Miles/Trane/Evans through the Kind of Blue years was great, the author admits to only caring about jazz up to 1967 and goes on to trash Miles 70s work including his playing. For me, this era had some of his most powerful trumpet work, as we see here.
