MILES DAVIS CENTENARY DIALOGUE: THE SOUND BETWEEN US
A Brief Note on the Journey What began as a series of scattered conversations between two friends about Miles Davis slowly evolved into something neither of us had initially anticipated. At first, we believed we were merely exchanging reflections on music, albums, transitions in sound, and the enduring mystery of a man who continues to […]
REVISITING BITCHES BREW AS MILES TURNS 100
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In August 2009, a lovely sister and I were at a concert by the jazz bassist, John Pattituci at Dizzy’s Club – part of Wynton Marsalis’s Jazz at Lincoln Centre establishment – and we ran smack into the bear of a man, that was Stanley Crouch, the irascible jazz critic and writer. At first, I […]
SKETCHES OF BECOMING: CONVERSATIONS ON MILES
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There are friendships forged in proximity, and others tempered in absence. Stretched across borders, tested by history, and sustained by memory. The musical reflections that follow emerge from the latter: a lifelong dialogue between us. Our paths diverged early under the pressures of exile, yet remained tethered by a shared sensibility, a common ear, and […]
THE SORCERER: MILES DAVIS AT 100
The other day, I woke up with a serious affliction. I was hustled and mugged by a tune. I could not banish it from my interiority. It had me in its clutches. The song was Jo-Jo from Miles Davis album Amandla, released in 1989, on the cusp of our democratic breakthrough. The album was an […]