purchase [ Quintet/Sextet ] Bitches Brew was the first that I heard (of) Miles Davis. It must have been mid '70s. Much later, I saw h...

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Miles Davis : My Funny Valentine [ purchase ] What makes a standard a standard? Clearly, there has to be something timeless about t...

Fleetwood Mac : Landslide [ purchase ] What has gotten into you, J. David, you may be asking. When we see your name on a SMM post, w...

Miles Davis : So What [ purchase ] I’m pretty sure that I’ve lamented here at some point that I’m not a musician, and don’t really hav...

Cannonball Adderley : Autumn Leaves [ purchase ] During this theme, there has already been a mention of “the elephant in the room.” ...

  Sting : Shadows In The Rain (studio version) [ purchase ] For those who remember 2012, I mentioned in a post that one of the first...

Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays : September Fifteenth [ purchase ] In 1981, after my junior year in college, I went to Europe with my two ro...

A change from some recent jottings, as I ease myself back into something at least resembling a comfort zone, avoiding the scatter gun of ...

John Coltrane : Everytime We Say Goodbye [ purchase ] Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye was composed by Cole Porter for a musical called Seven ...

Miles Davis : Flamenco Sketches [ purchase ] On my desert island, there are going to be times when I need to hear some jazz, and that m...

( Image by Wayne Potrafka) Miles Davis : All Blues [ purchase ] Corey Christiansen, Jimmy Bruno, Vic Juris : All Blues [ purchase ] M...

Miles Davis : Blue in Green [ purchase ] Miles Davis was a musical genius. I do not use the term lightly. But Miles had the ability to hear ...

You can't talk "horns" in pop music without mentioning the jazz trumpet player, perhaps the most iconic of all horn blowers. H...