fabforgottennobility:Miles Davis at Gleason’s, Gleason’s Gym, New York City, 1969Photo Baron WolmanI
fabforgottennobility:Miles Davis at Gleason’s, Gleason’s Gym, New York City, 1969Photo Baron WolmanI’m currently reading this man’s autobiography. I was hooked by the first couple of paragraphs in the Prologue:Listen. The greatest feeling I ever had in my life - with my clothes on - was when I first heard Diz and Bird together in St. Louis, Missouri, back in 1944. I was eighteen years old and had just graduated from Lincoln High School. It was just across the Mississippi River in East St. Louis, Illinois.When I heard Diz and Bird in B’s band, I said, “What? What is this!?” Man, that shit was so terrible it was scary. I mean, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie “Yardbird” Parker, Buddy Anderson, Gene Ammons, Lucky Thompson and Art Blakey all together in one band and not to mention B: Billy Eckstine himself. It was a motherfucker. Man, that shit was all up in my body. Music all up in my body, and that’s what I wanted to hear. The way that band was playing music - that was all I wanted to hear. It was something. And me up there playing with them.Lots of ‘motherfuckers’ being thrown around. -- source link
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