As much as I love music, I rarely find that it transcends a simple performance to something a little more ethereal. Miles Davis is a musician I absolutely love and adore, but his music has always remained academic for me, always appealing to the artistic side of my brain, but rarely the emotional. Through his career, he reinvented himself time and time again moving from Be-Bop (originally replacing Dizzy Gillespie in Charlie Parker’s Quintet), to founding the Cool movement and then broke away from everything with Bitches Brew with little or no regard for the previous style that he had worked so hard to establish.
In 1985 he took the stage at the famed Montreal Jazz fest and played, among others, Time after Time (by Cindi Lauper) and Human Nature (Michael Jackson), 2 pop tunes featured constantly on MTV. Early in his career, jazz standards were derived from pop tunes and as jazz evolved, this traditional had been forgotten.
There’s both strength and fragility in his sound and his interpretation of Time after Time is an honest exposure of the emotional side of a performer the audience rarely gets to see. This is pretty damn close to perfection.
Posted by Steve Mynett
Tags: Inspiration, miles davis cinty lauper michael jackson, Music
