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In Reply to: Where did Miles go to learn music? Get the answer right, and you live. posted by clarkjohnsen on August 16, 2004 at 07:51:59:
as did Thelonius Monk and a great many other noteable musicians
Do I get to live?Grins
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Not if you were in the film. Vincent (Cruise) dispathes the trumpeter/club owner who gives that answer, observing that Miles quickly left Julliard to apprentice with Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, and he stayed with Bird until late 1948. (Bird replaced him with Kenny Dorham, who also replaced the late Clifford Brown in Max Roach's band in 1956). Miles' next project was the three "Birth of the Cool" recording sessions in 1949 and 1950. A version of that nonet appeared at the Royal Roost in 1948.BTW, it's spelled "Thelonious". Critic Ira Gitler once observed that if Monk had a dime for every time his named was mis-spelled he'd be a rich man.
Not that this has anything to do with the film, but was it during Miles' period with Bird that he (Miles) began using smack?I know they both had probs with heroin (Bird started using around the age of 16?) and that while Miles eventually kicked, Parker used until the time of his death........
I believe Miles got seriously into the habit after his Paris visit in 1949. He finally kicked it cold turkey in 1954 and shortly after was a star soloist in the Newport Jazz Festival, kickstarting his heretofore downward spiraling career. He later became a coke head after his "return" in 1981.
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