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In Reply to: "Green Dolphin Street" posted by rico on May 22, 2004 at 07:21:52:
--The title theme was picked up by Miles Davis in 1958 and became a jazz standard overnight as well as remaining in Miles' repetoire for seven years.
To nitpick a little bit - last time Miles was recorded playing this tune was in 1969.
Also, it was a standard some years before he first recorded it.
My suspicion is that he picked up on it from listening to Ahmad Jamal and more probably from his sideman on that date, Bill Evans, who recorded it in 56 on his Jazz Showcase album.
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Thanks. The last I have is from the Plugged Nickel sessions in December of 1965. Where is the 1969 version to be found?Agree that Evams and Jamal did it first but it was hardly a standard
until the Davis sextet recorded it and released it on the "Jazz Track" album.
Best way to find out would be to look up the tune database somewhere. I think Tony Bennett did it maybe 5 or 6 years prior to Miles. Tony only does standards.:)))The 69 Miles version is a bootleg. W/Dave Holland and Chick Corea[I think].
Love the Plugged Nickel!! Some say it's not Miles best playing[parrot mentality]. I think he is awesome on it.
BTW, so as not to stray from the forum header - In which popular tv series did Miles participate as an actor?
Yes, it's amazing the way that Columbia treated the Plugged Nickel stuff, withholding everything for years and then only releasing part of it, truncated as well. The version of Green Dolphin Street is IMHO the best thing the second great quartet ever did.The 1969 so called "Lost Band" (because it was supposedly not reorded) did have some bootlegs. I have two, both recorded in Paris (can't tell whther it's the same session or not). At any rate, GDS is not on either and I'd be very surprised to hear this band play it as at the time they were doing very contemporary stuff.
The TV show was "Miami Vice", where he played a pimp.
I'd love to watch that episode of M.V.
Do you have it?I've got a video of Miles in Milan in 67, I believe[have to check at home].
No, I don't have the episode but remember being psyched to see Miles in a drasmatic setting. I do have the video from 1959 on laserdisc, where he introduced "So What" and played three tunes with the Gil Evans Orchestra. Other Miles videos I have are the DVDs of the recent documentary film and concerts from Paris, 1969, Montreal, 1975, and Montreuex, 1991, with Quincy Jones. In an interview once Miles commented on his unwillingness to play the older material, saying, "If I had to play that stuff I'd probably have a heart attack or something". Prophetic, indeed.I also have over 100 Miles albums and CDs.
The Montreal concert is of course from 1985 and the Paris concert is of course from 1989.
I bet one of them isn't the Montreux performances box. He he.
I wqas tempted but 21 CDs at that price is too much even for me.
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