Miles Davis 1955 “Comeback” at the Newport Jazz Festival
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There is a very interesting article today in The Guardian about Miles Davis’s 1955 “comeback” from heroin addiction at the 1955 Newport Jazz Festival. Below is a link to that article. Below the link is a recording from that performance.
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Excellent find. Does anyone else find Miles' articulations not what we've come to expect?
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@Kehaulani
His style changed a lot over the years. Early on, his sound was more mainstream to the era. -
Now don't start throwing things at me but I have never been a student of his work and with me it was always a case of take him or leave him. But I have to say, he sounded pretty damn good here at Newport in 1955.
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@Kehaulani meaning that performance specifically, or as a general statement when comparing his body of work with other artists?
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No, was his articulation at that time in his life different than the way he articulated things later in his playing. I hear a difference, more like Clifford Brown. More reliance on the tongue.
