WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from April 9, 2020

Listener comments!
	♥ 2:56pm doctorjazz: Hi-empty chat board? They're been packed since isolation started.
	♥ 2:57pm doctorjazz: Ahhh, I'm a drop early. Hello folks!
	♥ 2:57pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	♥ 3:00pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): i'm READY!!!
	♥ 3:00pm Matt from New Orleans: Hi everyone
	♥ 3:00pm Funky16Corners: Hey Granny!
	♥ 3:00pm Phillippe Bastille: I'll testify! (psst, what am I testifying to?)
	3:00pm Erica: Ready too!
	♥ 3:01pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): doctorjazz: we were all standing in the doorway of Julie's program, lingering before this call to Testify!
	♥ 3:01pm Listener Bob in PGH: You're either part of the problem or you're part of the solution
	♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: Hi Bob!
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: Phillippe! Erica!
	♥ 3:02pm StringOFperils: Emulsified and waiting for instructions.
	♥ 3:02pm Phillippe Bastille: We actually had some cleaning up to do at Julie's. Oatmeal crumbs and raisins in the carpet
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: Matt!
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: StringofPerils!
	♥ 3:02pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): Phillippe Bastille: you may testify to whatever moves you
	3:03pm βrian: Is this where we tsetse fly?
	♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: Brian!
	3:03pm FunkySugarWalls: Brian!!!!
	♥ 3:04pm doctorjazz: Hey Granny! Think I'm just a bit disoriented, "fa-cha-tid", as my mom used to say! Miles! Gil Evans! Great track!
	♥ 3:05pm Funky16Corners: FunkySugarWalls!
	♥ 3:06pm doctorjazz: (Should have read the title of this episode...)
	♥ 3:06pm Matt from New Orleans: A nonet is not a viable money making size for jazz gigs.
	♥ 3:07pm dutchtheo: Hey Larry and cool indoor boppers
	3:09pm Julie: YUCK raisins
	3:10pm FunkySugarWalls: Julie!!!!!
	3:10pm Julie: sugar walls! I don't think that's on the prince disc
	3:11pm FunkySugarWalls: which disc is that?
	3:12pm Erica: A very jazzy show today. Very windy and rainy at times too.
	♥ 3:13pm Phillippe Bastille: 35 mph gusts here in Annapolis. Bright skies but clouds are moving fast.
	♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: Hey Theo!
	♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: Very windy and stormy here, too
	♥ 3:14pm John from NP: Testify!! Hi Larry
	♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: Hey John!
	3:14pm Michael Fish Was Right: we are lucky to have so many out of work weather forecasters in the chat on a regular basis
	♥ 3:15pm John from NP: It's cold in my basement, forecast is for more cold
	♥ 3:15pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - I don't think the nonet "gigged" as such. They did at least one radio broadcast that I'm aware of.
	♥ 3:15pm Matt from New Orleans: Hi 80s & humid here. Feels close to 100. I’m sitting in the shade outside with about half of my liter sized cocktail remaining.
	♥ 3:15pm StringOFperils: If this isn't soulful, I'll eat this paint-roller.
	♥ 3:16pm Funky16Corners: Hey MichaelFishWasRight! (what was he right about??)
	3:16pm Michael Fish Was Right: no hyphen in paint roller
	3:17pm Hubig Pie: Miles Davis is cooler than a sack fulla mutherfuckers !
	♥ 3:17pm StringOFperils: it's jazz spelling
	♥ 3:17pm Funky16Corners: HubigPie!
	♥ 3:17pm Funky16Corners: Bring your extra hyphens here and drop them wherever.
	♥ 3:18pm StringOFperils: Miles was how I lost my hyphen
	♥ 3:18pm Funky16Corners: Miles, Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Jimmy Cobb and Paul Chambers (in this iteration)
	3:18pm Michael Fish Was Right: and your wife lost her hymen?
	♥ 3:19pm Matt from New Orleans: There’s a solid recent documentary about Miles. I think it’s on Netflix.
	♥ 3:20pm Funky16Corners: I still have to check that out
	♥ 3:20pm StringOFperils: John Szwed's book is pretty good
	3:20pm Michael Fish Was Right: ive seen it.
	3:21pm Michael Fish Was Right: miles's first wife was self-assured wasnt she!
	♥ 3:21pm StringOFperils: He regretted wasting that marriage
	3:21pm Hubig Pie: She was quite the dish
	♥ 3:21pm Matt from New Orleans: I really like the soundtrack to Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle’s first feature length narrative film) from around this time.
	3:22pm Michael Fish Was Right: he shouldnt have slapped her around and been a control freak
	♥ 3:22pm StringOFperils: too much Bolivian marching powder
	♥ 3:22pm Franco Twinkie: Larry! You good? I'm good. The rain is coming down and Miles is good, good, good.
	♥ 3:23pm doctorjazz: Matt, I believe that Miles doc is Netflix, and I liked it as well. So What BEFORE Miles had to speed it up in the 60's (which always made me a bit crazy).
	♥ 3:23pm Funky16Corners: Franco! All is well. I haven't yet succumbed to cabin fever.
	♥ 3:24pm Matt from New Orleans: Franco I polished off both pies over the last two days. Probably a tad too much pie for my waistline but my tummy wasn’t complaining.
	♥ 3:24pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - I think Miles was put off by what a mark 'So What' made. It was a riff/improvisation that turned into something spectacular, but he didn't seem to love it the way his audience did.
	♥ 3:24pm John from NP: If peeing your pants is cool, then consider me Miles Davis
	♥ 3:24pm Franco Twinkie: Doc, how are you and your clan?
	♥ 3:25pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry. There is not going to be a huge storm, oops yes it just happened, how were we to know (at 3:16).
	♥ 3:25pm Funky16Corners: Birth of the Pants
	♥ 3:25pm Funky16Corners: Hey Brian!
	♥ 3:26pm Funky16Corners: This right here. This is just perfect.
	♥ 3:26pm Franco Twinkie: Matt, Make another pie! Enjoy.
	♥ 3:27pm Brian in UK: Learned somethings from the Miles doc. Thought it was/is constructive.
	♥ 3:28pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): Larry, this set is soothing some rough patches in my psyche, thank you. Thanks to everyone keeping the WFMU boat floating.
	3:28pm Erica: Sorry had to get my food heated up.
	♥ 3:28pm Funky16Corners: I'm glad, Granny. This piece right here some of my favorite 'medicine'.
	♥ 3:29pm Brian in UK: Instructive is the new constructive.
	♥ 3:29pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): And this is how we Testify!
	♥ 3:30pm Brian in UK: ...at the church of the mute.
	♥ 3:30pm Phillippe Bastille: Well this weather is starting to suck. Power cut out three times in the past 15 minutes. hard to keep this FMU lifeline active without power
	♥ 3:30pm StringOFperils: Well, he's no Taylor Swift, whoever he is.
	♥ 3:33pm doctorjazz: Sure, Larry, I understand playing the same tune over and over, night after night can get stale, and some musicians will change it to get some life back into it...still find those versions (uptempo) lose a lot.
	3:33pm KevinfromBayRidge: Hey, Testifiers( with or without failure or strength!)
	3:34pm Erica: Yea String, he's no girl lol.
	♥ 3:34pm doctorjazz: @Franco-we're doing OK, thanks for asking. Home now, taking April off (not enough to do in the office for me and my associate).
	♥ 3:34pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - I agree with you. He seems to rush it in later recordings, which kind of kills the vibe
	♥ 3:35pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kevin!
	♥ 3:37pm StringOFperils: The faster versions are just Miles wanting to get out of there, to get to the next thing. The sessions were holding him up.
	♥ 3:37pm Matt from New Orleans: Do you have the first pressing Larry with the sailboat cover?
	♥ 3:38pm Funky16Corners: I have the later one with Miles on the cover
	♥ 3:40pm Matt from New Orleans: The sailboat cover always reeked of the worst of exotica to me
	♥ 3:40pm Funky16Corners: Miles was very unhappy about it
	♥ 3:40pm Doug Schulkind: This is so much better than the Chet Baker plays with the Mariachi Brass record I could be listening to.
	♥ 3:41pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doug! No doubt.
	♥ 3:42pm Brian in UK: I have this vague recollection that Miles recorded a tune called Paraphernalia in the late Sixties. Am I imagining this?
	♥ 3:43pm Doug Schulkind: Here's the cover art Matt from NOLA is referring to: www.discogs.com...
	♥ 3:43pm Funky16Corners: Philly Joe Jones on drums!
	♥ 3:43pm Matt from New Orleans: I haven’t listened to my copy of Miles Davis & Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings in a long time. This is making me want to pull it out.
	♥ 3:43pm Brian in UK: Oh he hated that according to the documentary.
	♥ 3:44pm doctorjazz: BiUK, he did, on Miles in the Sky
	♥ 3:44pm Funky16Corners: It was sadly very common with black artists way into the 1960s
	♥ 3:45pm Brian in UK: Thanks doc, now I remember a friend had a copy in the late Sixties.
	♥ 3:55pm Matt from New Orleans: I saw Porgy and Bess at The Metropolitan Opera in 89 or 90.
	3:57pm Hubig Pie: New Orleans Opera Assn. did a production of Porgy and Bess circa 2002
	♥ 4:00pm Funky16Corners: It's one of those pieces that gets remounted every few years, the way Threepenny Opera often does.
	♥ 4:01pm StringOFperils: This recording, I think, has to have had a huge influence on the, much later, and much different, recordings of Jon Hassell.
	♥ 4:02pm Funky16Corners: I can't imagine a horn player coming up in the 60s, 70s or 80s that wouldn't have been touched in some way by these records
	♥ 4:05pm StringOFperils: Even classical composers like Bernard Hermann, i.e. the film score for Scorcese's TAXI DRIVER
	♥ 4:06pm StringOFperils: he's the Picasso of jazz
	♥ 4:07pm Funky16Corners: I read a bio of Gil Evans a few years back, and it kind of bugged me how someone who made so much great art, which was in its way commercially successful, didn't make much of a living doing it. It never took the edge off his sound, though. If anything he got edgier as the years wore on.
	4:07pm Erica: More like the Elvis of Jazz.
	♥ 4:08pm Funky16Corners: I'll have to dig into his electric catalog at a later date.
	♥ 4:08pm Sem: Hey, Larry the G. Along for the rest of the ride. Greets, Testifiers. Holed up in Aranjuez for a week, with sidetrips to Toledo for the el Grecos. Holy!
	♥ 4:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey Sem!
	♥ 4:09pm Funky16Corners: El Greco is one of my faves. Domenikos Theotokopolis!
	♥ 4:09pm Funky16Corners: College art history for the win!
	4:09pm northguineahills: Body here, brain not....(oh, and Miles!)
	♥ 4:10pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH!
	♥ 4:10pm StringOFperils: The Elvis/Picasso of jazz with Lou Reed's attitude, Sugar Ray Leonard's moves in the ring, and somebody who hasn't been born yet's fashion sense'
	♥ 4:11pm Funky16Corners: The Bowie of Jazz. The only artists I can think of in rock that reinvented himself so frequently and successfully
	♥ 4:11pm StringOFperils: ok you win. ha ha ha
	4:13pm Erica: Ah Larry I was thinking of Bowie too.
	♥ 4:14pm Funky16Corners: There is some Lou Reed in there too.
	♥ 4:14pm StringOFperils: He even had nice trumpets. Saw him near the end, with Bill Evans (not that one) on guitar, etc. He had this beautiful red (like anodized aluminum) horn. And he (characteristically) laid back (a lot), to let everyone else shine.
	♥ 4:15pm doctorjazz: For a while, thus was the most overplayed classical piece out there.
	♥ 4:15pm doctorjazz: Heading for a dog walk, listening, of course...
	♥ 4:16pm Funky16Corners: I think the harpist on this session made a nice payday for about 5 minutes work
	♥ 4:18pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - Enjoy the fresh air. I was out foraging yesterday but I had a surgical mask on the whole time.
	♥ 4:20pm Funky16Corners: How's everybody else holding up? Any "essential" employees among us? My wife is a teacher and has been tele-teaching since it started.
	4:23pm northguineahills: When I was an undergrad, it seemed every kid who wanted to be chic, had a coltrane or miles poster, so I ignored them. Then I saw Sam Rivers, William Parker, and Mathew Shipp live. That took me on a wild ride. Then I discovered Alice Coltrane before I graduated, then late Coltrane and electric Miles. I came full circle w/in a few years of that, but I still think most of those poster poseurs didn't have a clue, and were my age's bachelor pad music lads of the time.
	♥ 4:24pm Funky16Corners: I have two children, Miles John and Sean Coltrane.
	♥ 4:25pm StringOFperils: May they bear their titles proudly.
	♥ 4:26pm Funky16Corners: They do pretty well!
	♥ 4:26pm doctorjazz: Other jazz versions of Concerto-MJQ and Jim Hall. (That I have)
	4:29pm northguineahills: I love the music and person of John, and love the music of Miles, but can't stand the person that was Miles. But as I say many times, I can love the art and not like the artists, as otherwise, there will be little left for me to love in this world...
	4:30pm Erica: So that explains your sons' names Larry.
	♥ 4:34pm Funky16Corners: @NGH - Yeah, Miles as a person is a tough sell, but I try to look at the life of a black artist of his stature in the 40s/50s/60s and I understand his anger, Certainly not the physical manifestations thereof. But the music has always hit me so deeply. Coltrane is of course the perfect contrast (as a person).
	♥ 4:35pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Yes, though Miles isn't unheard of in kids his age, when people hear 'Sean Coltrane' they start asking questions.
	4:38pm Erica: Oh my Larry.
	♥ 4:38pm Funky16Corners: BTW - I always assumed - because if the quality - that this must have been a radio broadcast, but there isn't any info in that regard on the CD
	♥ 4:38pm StringOFperils: @NorthGH>>The period of time that encompassed Miles coming up was the culmination of decades of unbelievable ugliness with respect to the lives of black people in America. Miles was a well-heeled dentist's son, but that had little bearing on his profound disgust with the racial thing, and with the predatory exploitative nature of the music industry that he perceived as being what he might call a bunch of scheming white motherfuckers. He was an angry man (never a pretty thing, no matter the circumstances). the substance abuse added to his irrasciblity, in additon to which creative genius is impatient and anxious. I'd be afraid to be in a room with the guy, but I was alway empathetic with his outlook, despite the hideous appearance of his outward personality at times.
	♥ 4:40pm Matt from New Orleans: Just read that Mort Drucker passed away. I always loved his work in Mad Magazine.
	♥ 4:40pm doctorjazz: Charlie Parker is supposed to have really crapped on Miles when he was young and in Bird's band. Hard to know how much that Affected Miles (or Bird's heroin use as well), but he was still at an impressionable age.
	♥ 4:40pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - I saw that. Drucker was a big fave of mine when I was a teenaged cartoonist
	♥ 4:41pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - In addition to being a virtuoso, Bird also seemed to pass on his bad habits to younger band members, as Davis reportedly did with Coltrane
	4:43pm northguineahills: My caveat w/ Miles, comes w/ his treatment of his first two wives, especially Betty. Coltrane was an addict, as far as the eyewitness record goes, he never mistreated his wives, possibly save cheating on Juanita when he met Alice, and I think the universe is better for that.
	♥ 4:44pm Matt from New Orleans: Larry is this from a different date en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 4:44pm Funky16Corners: It's one of the great conundrums, how some people are capable of making beautiful art, while simultaneously being complete assholes.
	♥ 4:46pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - Same date, but a different track list. The CD I have doesn't sound like it was dubbed from master tapes, but who knows.
	♥ 4:48pm Matt from New Orleans: I have the two CD version of the complete concert released in 1998. It’s Mono not the pseudo-stereo they made.
	♥ 4:50pm Sem: Enjoying from the kitchen. Believe the cooking is better when Miles and Evans are cooking. See you again, LG, and all.
	♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: Bye Sem!
	♥ 4:51pm Matt from New Orleans: Actually got the promo from WBAR as none of the other student DJs liked Jazz.
	♥ 4:52pm Funky16Corners: I'm going to have to do some research to find out if these are just dubs or from a separate live recording of the same date.
	♥ 4:54pm Doug Schulkind: When I listen to music like this, I feel like I am being rewarded for being a grownup.
	♥ 4:54pm StringOFperils: There has to be some kind of payout.
	♥ 4:57pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry, lovely music, later, All!
	♥ 4:57pm Matt from New Orleans: Thanks Larry. Always nice to revisit Miles and Gil.
	4:57pm northguineahills: Thanks, Larry!
	♥ 4:58pm StringOFperils: Thank you very much for all of this great music, and for putting up with my exhortations in chat. I humbly say good day to you all
	4:58pm Erica: Thanks for the Miles show Larry. As always, stay safe all!
	♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks all! Thanks for listening. Keep surviving! Stay healthy!
	♥ 4:59pm Funky16Corners: @Doug - Indeed!
	♥ 4:59pm Funky16Corners: @String - Exhort away! That's why we're here!
	♥ 5:09pm dutchtheo: Thanks Larry!
	♥ 5:11pm Funky16Corners: See you next time, Theo!
	♥ 3:45pm WR: Thank you so much for this Evans/Miles program. Thursday I thought I was going to be quietly doing paperwork listening to this. Customer had an emergency which took all afternoon. Kept the stream going in the background but couldn't focus on it. Have today off so am sinking in deep with it as I does a bit of sorting/ cleaning. I have all these recordings but your organization and commentary is all spot on. Digging it.
	♥ 4:03pm Funky16Corners: Thanks WR!
	♥ 4:16pm WR: So cool with It Ain't Necessarily So, with such a well known, well defined melody line, to hear what Miles does with it.
	♥ 4:18pm Funky16Corners: Indeed. It’s great to see him swerve like that, avoiding expectations and going in an unexpected direction.
	♥ 4:28pm WR: So cool with It Ain't Necessarily So, with such a well known, well defined melody line, to hear what Miles does with it.
	♥ 4:31pm WR: Oops. Didn't mean to post that twice. Phone said it failed so I clicked retry. And I initially wrote my comment before you did your back announcement. Again, spot on. IMHO.

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from April 9, 2020

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April 9, 2020: Testify! - Miles Ahead: The Music of Miles Davis and Gil Evans

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Approx. start time
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Miles Davis Nonet	Boplicity "Boplicity" by "Miles Davis Nonet"	Birth of the Cool	Capitol	1957	LP
Miles Davis Nonet	Moon Dream "Moon Dream" by "Miles Davis Nonet"	Birth of the Cool	Capitol	1957	LP

Miles Davis Quintet with the Gil Evans Orchestra	So What	Robert Herridge Theater	Bootleg	1959	MP3	0:05:44 (Pop-up)
Miles Davis with the Gil Evans Orchestra	The Duke/Blues For Pablo	Robert Herridge Theater	Bootleg	1959	MP3	0:15:16 (Pop-up)

Miles Davis and Gil Evans	Miles Ahead	Miles Ahead	Columbia	1957	LP	0:26:39 (Pop-up)
Miles Davis and Gil Evans	New Rhumba	Miles Ahead	Columbia	1957	LP	0:30:01 (Pop-up)
Miles Davis and Gil Evans	Gone "Gone" by "Miles Davis and Gil Evans"	Porgy and Bess	Columbia	1959	LP	0:34:36 (Pop-up)
Miles Davis and Gil Evans	Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)	Porgy and Bess	Columbia	1959	LP	0:38:12 (Pop-up)
Miles Davis and Gil Evans	It Ain't Necessarily So	Porgy and Bess	Columbia	1959	LP	0:42:50 (Pop-up)

Miles Davis and Gil Evans	Concierto de Aranjuez	Sketches of Spain	Columbia	1960	LP	0:51:41 (Pop-up)
Miles Davis and Gil Evans	Solea "Solea" by "Miles Davis and Gil Evans"	Sketches of Spain	Columbia	1960	LP	1:07:55 (Pop-up)

Miles Davis and the Gil Evans Orchestra	Miles Ahead Medley (Meaning of the Blues/Lament/New Rhumba)	Live at Carnegie Hall 1961	Giants of Jazz	1961	CD	1:24:24 (Pop-up)
Miles Davis and Gil Evans	Corcovado	Quiet Nights	Columbia	1963	LP	1:32:44 (Pop-up)
Gil Evans	Time of the Barracudas "Time of the Barracudas" by "Gil Evans"	The Individualism of Gil Evans	Verve	1964	LP	1:35:23 (Pop-up)
Miles Davis and Gil Evans	My Ship	Miles Ahead	Columbia	1957	LP	1:42:48 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up on the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45	1:51:10 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 2:56pm doctorjazz: Hi-empty chat board? They're been packed since isolation started.
	♥ 2:57pm doctorjazz: Ahhh, I'm a drop early. Hello folks!
	♥ 2:57pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	♥ 3:00pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): i'm READY!!!
	♥ 3:00pm Matt from New Orleans: Hi everyone
	♥ 3:00pm Funky16Corners: Hey Granny!
	♥ 3:00pm Phillippe Bastille: I'll testify! (psst, what am I testifying to?)
	3:00pm Erica: Ready too!
	♥ 3:01pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): doctorjazz: we were all standing in the doorway of Julie's program, lingering before this call to Testify!
	♥ 3:01pm Listener Bob in PGH: You're either part of the problem or you're part of the solution
	♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: Hi Bob!
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: Phillippe! Erica!
	♥ 3:02pm StringOFperils: Emulsified and waiting for instructions.
	♥ 3:02pm Phillippe Bastille: We actually had some cleaning up to do at Julie's. Oatmeal crumbs and raisins in the carpet
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: Matt!
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: StringofPerils!
	♥ 3:02pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): Phillippe Bastille: you may testify to whatever moves you
	3:03pm βrian: Is this where we tsetse fly?
	♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: Brian!
	3:03pm FunkySugarWalls: Brian!!!!
	♥ 3:04pm doctorjazz: Hey Granny! Think I'm just a bit disoriented, "fa-cha-tid", as my mom used to say! Miles! Gil Evans! Great track!
	♥ 3:05pm Funky16Corners: FunkySugarWalls!
	♥ 3:06pm doctorjazz: (Should have read the title of this episode...)
	♥ 3:06pm Matt from New Orleans: A nonet is not a viable money making size for jazz gigs.
	♥ 3:07pm dutchtheo: Hey Larry and cool indoor boppers
	3:09pm Julie: YUCK raisins
	3:10pm FunkySugarWalls: Julie!!!!!
	3:10pm Julie: sugar walls! I don't think that's on the prince disc
	3:11pm FunkySugarWalls: which disc is that?
	3:12pm Erica: A very jazzy show today. Very windy and rainy at times too.
	♥ 3:13pm Phillippe Bastille: 35 mph gusts here in Annapolis. Bright skies but clouds are moving fast.
	♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: Hey Theo!
	♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: Very windy and stormy here, too
	♥ 3:14pm John from NP: Testify!! Hi Larry
	♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: Hey John!
	3:14pm Michael Fish Was Right: we are lucky to have so many out of work weather forecasters in the chat on a regular basis
	♥ 3:15pm John from NP: It's cold in my basement, forecast is for more cold
	♥ 3:15pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - I don't think the nonet "gigged" as such. They did at least one radio broadcast that I'm aware of.
	♥ 3:15pm Matt from New Orleans: Hi 80s & humid here. Feels close to 100. I’m sitting in the shade outside with about half of my liter sized cocktail remaining.
	♥ 3:15pm StringOFperils: If this isn't soulful, I'll eat this paint-roller.
	♥ 3:16pm Funky16Corners: Hey MichaelFishWasRight! (what was he right about??)
	3:16pm Michael Fish Was Right: no hyphen in paint roller
	3:17pm Hubig Pie: Miles Davis is cooler than a sack fulla mutherfuckers !
	♥ 3:17pm StringOFperils: it's jazz spelling
	♥ 3:17pm Funky16Corners: HubigPie!
	♥ 3:17pm Funky16Corners: Bring your extra hyphens here and drop them wherever.
	♥ 3:18pm StringOFperils: Miles was how I lost my hyphen
	♥ 3:18pm Funky16Corners: Miles, Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Jimmy Cobb and Paul Chambers (in this iteration)
	3:18pm Michael Fish Was Right: and your wife lost her hymen?
	♥ 3:19pm Matt from New Orleans: There’s a solid recent documentary about Miles. I think it’s on Netflix.
	♥ 3:20pm Funky16Corners: I still have to check that out
	♥ 3:20pm StringOFperils: John Szwed's book is pretty good
	3:20pm Michael Fish Was Right: ive seen it.
	3:21pm Michael Fish Was Right: miles's first wife was self-assured wasnt she!
	♥ 3:21pm StringOFperils: He regretted wasting that marriage
	3:21pm Hubig Pie: She was quite the dish
	♥ 3:21pm Matt from New Orleans: I really like the soundtrack to Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle’s first feature length narrative film) from around this time.
	3:22pm Michael Fish Was Right: he shouldnt have slapped her around and been a control freak
	♥ 3:22pm StringOFperils: too much Bolivian marching powder
	♥ 3:22pm Franco Twinkie: Larry! You good? I'm good. The rain is coming down and Miles is good, good, good.
	♥ 3:23pm doctorjazz: Matt, I believe that Miles doc is Netflix, and I liked it as well. So What BEFORE Miles had to speed it up in the 60's (which always made me a bit crazy).
	♥ 3:23pm Funky16Corners: Franco! All is well. I haven't yet succumbed to cabin fever.
	♥ 3:24pm Matt from New Orleans: Franco I polished off both pies over the last two days. Probably a tad too much pie for my waistline but my tummy wasn’t complaining.
	♥ 3:24pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - I think Miles was put off by what a mark 'So What' made. It was a riff/improvisation that turned into something spectacular, but he didn't seem to love it the way his audience did.
	♥ 3:24pm John from NP: If peeing your pants is cool, then consider me Miles Davis
	♥ 3:24pm Franco Twinkie: Doc, how are you and your clan?
	♥ 3:25pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry. There is not going to be a huge storm, oops yes it just happened, how were we to know (at 3:16).
	♥ 3:25pm Funky16Corners: Birth of the Pants
	♥ 3:25pm Funky16Corners: Hey Brian!
	♥ 3:26pm Funky16Corners: This right here. This is just perfect.
	♥ 3:26pm Franco Twinkie: Matt, Make another pie! Enjoy.
	♥ 3:27pm Brian in UK: Learned somethings from the Miles doc. Thought it was/is constructive.
	♥ 3:28pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): Larry, this set is soothing some rough patches in my psyche, thank you. Thanks to everyone keeping the WFMU boat floating.
	3:28pm Erica: Sorry had to get my food heated up.
	♥ 3:28pm Funky16Corners: I'm glad, Granny. This piece right here some of my favorite 'medicine'.
	♥ 3:29pm Brian in UK: Instructive is the new constructive.
	♥ 3:29pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): And this is how we Testify!
	♥ 3:30pm Brian in UK: ...at the church of the mute.
	♥ 3:30pm Phillippe Bastille: Well this weather is starting to suck. Power cut out three times in the past 15 minutes. hard to keep this FMU lifeline active without power
	♥ 3:30pm StringOFperils: Well, he's no Taylor Swift, whoever he is.
	♥ 3:33pm doctorjazz: Sure, Larry, I understand playing the same tune over and over, night after night can get stale, and some musicians will change it to get some life back into it...still find those versions (uptempo) lose a lot.
	3:33pm KevinfromBayRidge: Hey, Testifiers( with or without failure or strength!)
	3:34pm Erica: Yea String, he's no girl lol.
	♥ 3:34pm doctorjazz: @Franco-we're doing OK, thanks for asking. Home now, taking April off (not enough to do in the office for me and my associate).
	♥ 3:34pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - I agree with you. He seems to rush it in later recordings, which kind of kills the vibe
	♥ 3:35pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kevin!
	♥ 3:37pm StringOFperils: The faster versions are just Miles wanting to get out of there, to get to the next thing. The sessions were holding him up.
	♥ 3:37pm Matt from New Orleans: Do you have the first pressing Larry with the sailboat cover?
	♥ 3:38pm Funky16Corners: I have the later one with Miles on the cover
	♥ 3:40pm Matt from New Orleans: The sailboat cover always reeked of the worst of exotica to me
	♥ 3:40pm Funky16Corners: Miles was very unhappy about it
	♥ 3:40pm Doug Schulkind: This is so much better than the Chet Baker plays with the Mariachi Brass record I could be listening to.
	♥ 3:41pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doug! No doubt.
	♥ 3:42pm Brian in UK: I have this vague recollection that Miles recorded a tune called Paraphernalia in the late Sixties. Am I imagining this?
	♥ 3:43pm Doug Schulkind: Here's the cover art Matt from NOLA is referring to: www.discogs.com...
	♥ 3:43pm Funky16Corners: Philly Joe Jones on drums!
	♥ 3:43pm Matt from New Orleans: I haven’t listened to my copy of Miles Davis & Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings in a long time. This is making me want to pull it out.
	♥ 3:43pm Brian in UK: Oh he hated that according to the documentary.
	♥ 3:44pm doctorjazz: BiUK, he did, on Miles in the Sky
	♥ 3:44pm Funky16Corners: It was sadly very common with black artists way into the 1960s
	♥ 3:45pm Brian in UK: Thanks doc, now I remember a friend had a copy in the late Sixties.
	♥ 3:55pm Matt from New Orleans: I saw Porgy and Bess at The Metropolitan Opera in 89 or 90.
	3:57pm Hubig Pie: New Orleans Opera Assn. did a production of Porgy and Bess circa 2002
	♥ 4:00pm Funky16Corners: It's one of those pieces that gets remounted every few years, the way Threepenny Opera often does.
	♥ 4:01pm StringOFperils: This recording, I think, has to have had a huge influence on the, much later, and much different, recordings of Jon Hassell.
	♥ 4:02pm Funky16Corners: I can't imagine a horn player coming up in the 60s, 70s or 80s that wouldn't have been touched in some way by these records
	♥ 4:05pm StringOFperils: Even classical composers like Bernard Hermann, i.e. the film score for Scorcese's TAXI DRIVER
	♥ 4:06pm StringOFperils: he's the Picasso of jazz
	♥ 4:07pm Funky16Corners: I read a bio of Gil Evans a few years back, and it kind of bugged me how someone who made so much great art, which was in its way commercially successful, didn't make much of a living doing it. It never took the edge off his sound, though. If anything he got edgier as the years wore on.
	4:07pm Erica: More like the Elvis of Jazz.
	♥ 4:08pm Funky16Corners: I'll have to dig into his electric catalog at a later date.
	♥ 4:08pm Sem: Hey, Larry the G. Along for the rest of the ride. Greets, Testifiers. Holed up in Aranjuez for a week, with sidetrips to Toledo for the el Grecos. Holy!
	♥ 4:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey Sem!
	♥ 4:09pm Funky16Corners: El Greco is one of my faves. Domenikos Theotokopolis!
	♥ 4:09pm Funky16Corners: College art history for the win!
	4:09pm northguineahills: Body here, brain not....(oh, and Miles!)
	♥ 4:10pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH!
	♥ 4:10pm StringOFperils: The Elvis/Picasso of jazz with Lou Reed's attitude, Sugar Ray Leonard's moves in the ring, and somebody who hasn't been born yet's fashion sense'
	♥ 4:11pm Funky16Corners: The Bowie of Jazz. The only artists I can think of in rock that reinvented himself so frequently and successfully
	♥ 4:11pm StringOFperils: ok you win. ha ha ha
	4:13pm Erica: Ah Larry I was thinking of Bowie too.
	♥ 4:14pm Funky16Corners: There is some Lou Reed in there too.
	♥ 4:14pm StringOFperils: He even had nice trumpets. Saw him near the end, with Bill Evans (not that one) on guitar, etc. He had this beautiful red (like anodized aluminum) horn. And he (characteristically) laid back (a lot), to let everyone else shine.
	♥ 4:15pm doctorjazz: For a while, thus was the most overplayed classical piece out there.
	♥ 4:15pm doctorjazz: Heading for a dog walk, listening, of course...
	♥ 4:16pm Funky16Corners: I think the harpist on this session made a nice payday for about 5 minutes work
	♥ 4:18pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - Enjoy the fresh air. I was out foraging yesterday but I had a surgical mask on the whole time.
	♥ 4:20pm Funky16Corners: How's everybody else holding up? Any "essential" employees among us? My wife is a teacher and has been tele-teaching since it started.
	4:23pm northguineahills: When I was an undergrad, it seemed every kid who wanted to be chic, had a coltrane or miles poster, so I ignored them. Then I saw Sam Rivers, William Parker, and Mathew Shipp live. That took me on a wild ride. Then I discovered Alice Coltrane before I graduated, then late Coltrane and electric Miles. I came full circle w/in a few years of that, but I still think most of those poster poseurs didn't have a clue, and were my age's bachelor pad music lads of the time.
	♥ 4:24pm Funky16Corners: I have two children, Miles John and Sean Coltrane.
	♥ 4:25pm StringOFperils: May they bear their titles proudly.
	♥ 4:26pm Funky16Corners: They do pretty well!
	♥ 4:26pm doctorjazz: Other jazz versions of Concerto-MJQ and Jim Hall. (That I have)
	4:29pm northguineahills: I love the music and person of John, and love the music of Miles, but can't stand the person that was Miles. But as I say many times, I can love the art and not like the artists, as otherwise, there will be little left for me to love in this world...
	4:30pm Erica: So that explains your sons' names Larry.
	♥ 4:34pm Funky16Corners: @NGH - Yeah, Miles as a person is a tough sell, but I try to look at the life of a black artist of his stature in the 40s/50s/60s and I understand his anger, Certainly not the physical manifestations thereof. But the music has always hit me so deeply. Coltrane is of course the perfect contrast (as a person).
	♥ 4:35pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - Yes, though Miles isn't unheard of in kids his age, when people hear 'Sean Coltrane' they start asking questions.
	4:38pm Erica: Oh my Larry.
	♥ 4:38pm Funky16Corners: BTW - I always assumed - because if the quality - that this must have been a radio broadcast, but there isn't any info in that regard on the CD
	♥ 4:38pm StringOFperils: @NorthGH>>The period of time that encompassed Miles coming up was the culmination of decades of unbelievable ugliness with respect to the lives of black people in America. Miles was a well-heeled dentist's son, but that had little bearing on his profound disgust with the racial thing, and with the predatory exploitative nature of the music industry that he perceived as being what he might call a bunch of scheming white motherfuckers. He was an angry man (never a pretty thing, no matter the circumstances). the substance abuse added to his irrasciblity, in additon to which creative genius is impatient and anxious. I'd be afraid to be in a room with the guy, but I was alway empathetic with his outlook, despite the hideous appearance of his outward personality at times.
	♥ 4:40pm Matt from New Orleans: Just read that Mort Drucker passed away. I always loved his work in Mad Magazine.
	♥ 4:40pm doctorjazz: Charlie Parker is supposed to have really crapped on Miles when he was young and in Bird's band. Hard to know how much that Affected Miles (or Bird's heroin use as well), but he was still at an impressionable age.
	♥ 4:40pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - I saw that. Drucker was a big fave of mine when I was a teenaged cartoonist
	♥ 4:41pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - In addition to being a virtuoso, Bird also seemed to pass on his bad habits to younger band members, as Davis reportedly did with Coltrane
	4:43pm northguineahills: My caveat w/ Miles, comes w/ his treatment of his first two wives, especially Betty. Coltrane was an addict, as far as the eyewitness record goes, he never mistreated his wives, possibly save cheating on Juanita when he met Alice, and I think the universe is better for that.
	♥ 4:44pm Matt from New Orleans: Larry is this from a different date en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 4:44pm Funky16Corners: It's one of the great conundrums, how some people are capable of making beautiful art, while simultaneously being complete assholes.
	♥ 4:46pm Funky16Corners: @Matt - Same date, but a different track list. The CD I have doesn't sound like it was dubbed from master tapes, but who knows.
	♥ 4:48pm Matt from New Orleans: I have the two CD version of the complete concert released in 1998. It’s Mono not the pseudo-stereo they made.
	♥ 4:50pm Sem: Enjoying from the kitchen. Believe the cooking is better when Miles and Evans are cooking. See you again, LG, and all.
	♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: Bye Sem!
	♥ 4:51pm Matt from New Orleans: Actually got the promo from WBAR as none of the other student DJs liked Jazz.
	♥ 4:52pm Funky16Corners: I'm going to have to do some research to find out if these are just dubs or from a separate live recording of the same date.
	♥ 4:54pm Doug Schulkind: When I listen to music like this, I feel like I am being rewarded for being a grownup.
	♥ 4:54pm StringOFperils: There has to be some kind of payout.
	♥ 4:57pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry, lovely music, later, All!
	♥ 4:57pm Matt from New Orleans: Thanks Larry. Always nice to revisit Miles and Gil.
	4:57pm northguineahills: Thanks, Larry!
	♥ 4:58pm StringOFperils: Thank you very much for all of this great music, and for putting up with my exhortations in chat. I humbly say good day to you all
	4:58pm Erica: Thanks for the Miles show Larry. As always, stay safe all!
	♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks all! Thanks for listening. Keep surviving! Stay healthy!
	♥ 4:59pm Funky16Corners: @Doug - Indeed!
	♥ 4:59pm Funky16Corners: @String - Exhort away! That's why we're here!
	♥ 5:09pm dutchtheo: Thanks Larry!
	♥ 5:11pm Funky16Corners: See you next time, Theo!
	♥ 3:45pm WR: Thank you so much for this Evans/Miles program. Thursday I thought I was going to be quietly doing paperwork listening to this. Customer had an emergency which took all afternoon. Kept the stream going in the background but couldn't focus on it. Have today off so am sinking in deep with it as I does a bit of sorting/ cleaning. I have all these recordings but your organization and commentary is all spot on. Digging it.
	♥ 4:03pm Funky16Corners: Thanks WR!
	♥ 4:16pm WR: So cool with It Ain't Necessarily So, with such a well known, well defined melody line, to hear what Miles does with it.
	♥ 4:18pm Funky16Corners: Indeed. It’s great to see him swerve like that, avoiding expectations and going in an unexpected direction.
	♥ 4:28pm WR: So cool with It Ain't Necessarily So, with such a well known, well defined melody line, to hear what Miles does with it.
	♥ 4:31pm WR: Oops. Didn't mean to post that twice. Phone said it failed so I clicked retry. And I initially wrote my comment before you did your back announcement. Again, spot on. IMHO.

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