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SUMMARY:Miles Davis: Kind of Blue at 50 - Jimmy Cobb's So What Band
LOCATION:AB Theater (Anspachlaan 110\, 1000 Brussel)
DESCRIPTION:Miles Davis: Kind of Blue at 50 - Jimmy Cobb’s So What\nBand featuring: Wallace Roney\, Javon Jackson\, Vincent\nHerring\, Larry Willis and Buster Williams + Screening of:\n‘Celebrating A Masterpiece: Kind Of Blue’ (2009 – 55\nmin. – director: Chris Lenz)8:15 pm Kind of Blue at 50 -\nJimmy Cobb’s So What Band featuring: Wallace Roney\, Javon\nJackson\, Vincent Herring\, Larry Willis and Buster Williams\n   "It’s sort of… like the Bible in a way. You just\nhave one in the house" (Q-Tip)"It’s a\ncornerstone record not only for jazz. It’s a cornerstone\nrecord for music." (Herbie Hancock)"That’ll\nalways be my music\, man. I play ‘Kind of Blue’ every\nday - it’s my orange juice. It still sounds like it was\nmade yesterday." (Quincy Jones)    1959. Even though we\nmourned the passing of Billie Holiday and Lester Young (or\nrather ‘Pres’ as Lady Day called him) that year\, 1959\nwas an extremely fruitful and crucial year for jazz. BBC 4\neven devoted a documentary to it earlier this year:\n"1959. The Year That Changed Jazz Forever". It was\nnamely in ’59 that a number of jazz-milestones pushed the\ngenre in other directions. Just remember ‘Giant Steps’\nfrom saxophonist John Coltrane\, the first album from\n‘Trane’ that consisted completely of his own\ncompositions. Also ‘The Shape Of Jazz To Come’ from\nOrnette Coleman was released via Atlantic\, and Dave\nBrubeck’s ‘Time Out’ (Columbia) containing the single\n‘Take Five’\, the first jazz single to sell more than a\nmillion copies. Irrepressible bassist Charles Mingus put out\na masterpiece too: ‘Mingus Ah Um’ (Columbia). ‘Kind Of\nBlue’ (Miles Davis) has one thing in common with the\nlatter: both albums were highly commended by the prominent\nPenguin Guide To Jazz with the highest score: **** completed\nby the famous crown\, only allocated to the greatest of the\ngreat.Miles Davis' ‘Kind Of Blue’ is often –\nthough exact numbers are lacking – cited as the best sold\njazz album of all time\, by some even labeled as the best\njazz album ever\, but – and this is certainly typical:\n‘Kind Of Blue’ often appears in prominent 'Best\nRecord Ever' charts across many different genres. So it\nwas that this album ended in – say - the Rolling Stone 500\nGreat Albums Of All Time at # 12. These days a work could be\nlabeled a 'universal masterpiece' for less! But\n‘Kind Of Blue’ does belong to the pantheon of modern\nmusic. To think that the recordings were often first-takes\,\nthat there were no rehearsals held and no written music\nexisted before Miles Davis and his colleagues dived into the\nstudio to record ‘Kind Of Blue’.In 2009 ‘Kind Of\nBlue’ is exactly 50 years-old\, but it sounds just as\ncontemporary and relevant as ever. Drummer Jimmy Cobb is the\nlast survivor of the original players (Miles Davis\, John\nColtrane\, Cannonball Adderley\, Bill Evans\, Wynton Kelly\,\nPaul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb). In connection with ‘Kind Of\nBlue at 50’\, Cobb will be curating an evening with a\ncontemporary all-star band consisting of performers directly\nconnected to Jimmy Cobb himself or who have direct links\nwith original members from the album recordings. You can\nexpect straight-forward interpretations of the likes of\n‘So What’ (the standard of this classic album) or\n‘Freddie Freeloader’ and other interpretations of\ncompositions from John Coltrane\, Miles Davis or Cannonball\nAdderly.For those who want to get themselves completely into\nthis album: then re-read ‘Kind Of Blue. The Making Of The\nMiles Davis Masterpiece’ (2000) from Ashley Kahn. Mojo\nwrote of it: "… a model of research\, artfully\ninterposes his narrative with illuminating quotes which\ngives the book a trustworthy\, multi-angled documentary\nfeel".Line up:Jimmy Cobb - DrumsWallace Roney -\nTrumpetJavon Jackson - Tenor SaxophoneVincent Herring - Alto\nSaxophoneLarry Willis - Piano    7:00 pm Screening of:\n‘Celebrating A Masterpiece: Kind Of Blue’(2009 – 55\nmin. – director: Chris Lenz)A well-prepared person is\nworth two and so this very recent documentary from '09\ncouldn't be lacking. ‘Celebrating A Masterpiece: Kind\nOf Blue’ came about with the assistance of some rather big\nnames. Director on duty was Chris Lenz\, known from his work\non the bonus DVD that accompanied the re-issue of Jeff\nBuckley’s ‘Live At Sin-É’. Co-producer was music\nhistorian and journalist Ashley Kahn (who also wrote the\nmuch praised book ‘Kind Of Blue. The Making Of The Miles\nDavis Masterpiece’). The script was in the hands of\nMichael Cuscuna\, mainly known as the man responsible for\nthe re-surfacing of the historic Blue Note recordings from\nforgotten archives. This documentary contains many black\n& white stills\, interviews with both Herbie Hancock\,\nCarlos Santana\, Horace Silver\, Q-Tip and ‘Kind Of\nBlue’-drummer Jimmy Cobb.                               \nMiles Davis - ‘Celebrating A Masterpiece: Kind Of Blue’\n\nhttps://www.abconcerts.be/en/agenda/miles-davis-kind-of-blue-at-50-jimmy-cobbs-so-what-band/a105J000001wga9QAA
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