{"id":7305,"date":"2016-04-01T18:37:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T18:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=7305"},"modified":"2016-04-05T03:10:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T03:10:34","slug":"why-should-we-care-about-miles-davis-new-biopic-live-tribute-local-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=7305","title":{"rendered":"Why should we care about Miles Davis? New biopic, live tribute, local thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Portrait of US jazz trumpet player Miles Davis taken 06 July 1991 in Paris.
Portrait du trompettiste de jazz Miles Davis pris lors d’un concert le 06 juillet 1991 \u00e0 la Halle de la Villette \u00e0 Paris. (Photo credit PATRICK HERTZOG\/AFP\/GettyImages)<\/p><\/div>\n

Why care?<\/p>\n

Miles Davis dwells at, and helped create, the root thrust of many music vernaculars of the 20th century — from vintage bop with Bird, to\u00a0purring\u00a0like a breeze-cooled cat in Birth of the Cool<\/em>,\u00a0to kicking in the blues ‘n’\u00a0back beat of workin’, walkin’\u00a0hard-bop with Trane, to modal jazz trance with Kind of Blue,\u00a0<\/em>to cutting-edge modern slash with his second great quintet, to polyrhythmic Afro-fusion with Bitches Brew<\/em>, to deep street funk and proto-hip-hop ‘tude with On the Corner<\/em>. And he always gave us the essence of personal style, as an expression of American individuality and romance. Whew.<\/p>\n

Well, that’s by way of introduction to this radio story.\u00a0Thanks to 88.9 Radio Milwaukee’s Glenn Kleiman and trumpeter Jamie Breiwick for including me in this fine feature. http:\/\/radiomilwaukee.org\/discover-music\/still-care-miles-davis\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The feature, with interviews of Breiwick and me is hooked on Don Cheadle’s highly-anticipated biographical film about Miles Davis Miles Ahead<\/em>, and “A Tribute to Miles Davis,” (a supper club edition) a live concert event at Company Brewing, 735 E. Center St, Milwaukee, at 9:30 p.m. on April 15. The event is organized by and features saxophonist Jay Anderson along with trumpeter Russ Johnson, pianist Mark Davis, bassist Ethan Bender, and drummer Mitch Shiner. This is an excellent ensemble event, featuring music by and associated with Miles, not to be missed:\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1671208159798613\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Also, here is a link to my review of the 1983 Miles Davis concert in Milwaukee, for The Milwaukee Journal<\/em>:https:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19830218&id=XWgaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4ykEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4166,4949562&hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n

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Why care? Miles Davis dwells at, and helped create, the root thrust of many music vernaculars of the 20th century — from vintage bop with Bird, to\u00a0purring\u00a0like a breeze-cooled cat in Birth of the Cool,\u00a0to kicking in the blues ‘n’\u00a0back … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,20,18,19,21,17,15,14,22],"class_list":["post-7305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-www-kevernacular-com","tag-88-9-radio-milwaukee","tag-a-tribute-to-miles-davis","tag-bitches-brew","tag-don-cheadle","tag-jamie-breiwick","tag-kind-of-blue","tag-miles-ahead","tag-miles-davis","tag-russ-johnson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hJWE-1TP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7305"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7320,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions\/7320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}