Wednesday, August 04, 2004

Someday My Toad Will Appear

I've never actually listened all the way through Miles' Someday My Prince Will Come. Frankly, if I want to listen to old school miles, I usually pick one with Coltrane on it instead of the ever-weary sounding Hank Mobley. But last night I listened all the way through and found an alternate take of Someday at the end. It offers an extremely interesting look into Miles' creative process and how he develops those quirky ideas. The alternate solo contains in it almost all of the ideas he plays in the published take, but they are overall much less successful. The alternate take also doesn't have the outro solo by Coltrane. What good could it possibly be?

2 Comments:

Blogger Moandji Ezana said...

"ever-weary Hank Mobley"

But check him out on the first Jazz Messengers record.

3:22 PM  
Blogger Chris Mosley said...

i will. my opinion is mostly from and of that one record, really.

11:05 PM  

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