One of Bowie's best projects was Tin Machine. Both albums are great and neither one can be mistaken for the other... and what about Miles Davis? No one on the list seems to mention him - how could that be? __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
on 12/23/02 10:04 AM, Theo Klaase at river_of_dogs@yahoo.com wrote:
One of Bowie's best projects was Tin Machine. Both albums are great and neither one can be mistaken for the other...
and what about Miles Davis? No one on the list seems to mention him - how could that be?
he didn't do much new music this year, what with being dead and all... sh
Skip/Theo et. al.: I don't know, "being dead and all" didn't seem the releaseerelease of new music from Trane, Elvis, Gram Parsons, Chet Baker etc. Wasn't there a bunch of new stuff (yawn) ocolossalper collasal million-CD Montreux set or something. Death can be a good career move. Kinky Friedman did ayearsrview yearas ago where he told the writer he had just signed with Jim Croce's former manager. "But didn't famousecome really famouys after he died?" asked the hack. "Well" said the Kink man. "I'm looking into private planes right now." Ken Waxman --- skip Heller <velaires@earthlink.net> wrote: > on 12/23/02 10:04 AM, Theo Klaase at
river_of_dogs@yahoo.com wrote:
and what about Miles Davis? No one on the list seems to mention him - how could that be?
he didn't do much new music this year, what with being dead and all...
sh
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Ken -- I think the difference between somebody like Gram (and for that matter Chet Baker) is that their work becomes pretty invisible for a time, then somebody puts out a reissue and hires a publicist to drum up the hype about their legendary status and what an influence the were on everything that came after them. In Miles' case, his music has never gone away, so you've never had to re-introduce to him to a new generation of listeners. One of the rules of thumb of jazz is that a majority of listeners buy KIND OF BLUE early into their consumership. The reissue spate in Miles' case is less to attract new consumers (who can buy KoB much more cheaply) but rather to get all the old consumers to buy new titles (or, moreover, new versions of old titles). (Personally, I refuse to buy the boxes, just because I've already bout all the albums three times, and three is my limit. I'd be happier with a chronologically-seuqenced box of all the alternate takes and songs that didn;t make it.) As for anything Kinky Friedman says, it should be pointed out that the Kinkster's only sacred cow is irreverence. on 12/23/02 3:06 PM, Ken Waxman at mingusaum@yahoo.ca wrote:
Skip/Theo et. al.:
I don't know, "being dead and all" didn't seem the releaseerelease of new music from Trane, Elvis, Gram Parsons, Chet Baker etc. Wasn't there a bunch of new stuff (yawn) ocolossalper collasal million-CD Montreux set or something.
Death can be a good career move.
Kinky Friedman did ayearsrview yearas ago where he told the writer he had just signed with Jim Croce's former manager.
"But didn't famousecome really famouys after he died?" asked the hack.
"Well" said the Kink man. "I'm looking into private planes right now."
Ken Waxman
--- skip Heller <velaires@earthlink.net> wrote: > on 12/23/02 10:04 AM, Theo Klaase at
river_of_dogs@yahoo.com wrote:
and what about Miles Davis? No one on the list seems to mention him - how could that be?
he didn't do much new music this year, what with being dead and all...
sh
===== Ken Waxman mingusaum@yahoo.ca www.jazzword.com - Jazz/improv news, CD reviews and photos
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