Interview With Miles Davis 1973 Rythmn Section (Michael Henderson)

[Dr. Cheese]

Check it out:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmYz5ruHvsU

[VroomVroom]

You, my man, are even more awesome than usual for posting this! Thanks...what a great vid.

[bottomzone]

Cool post-I was not aware that Reggie Lucas and Mtume playe with Miles!!!


A Groove is a Terrible Thing to Waste!

[JimK]

Originally Posted by bottomzone

Cool post-I was not aware that Reggie Lucas and Mtume playe with Miles!!!

Everyone (that is someone) has played with Miles.


I cannot see the video here...there is some good info about this band in paul Tingen's book, Miles Beyond: The Electric Explorations of Miles Davis, 1967-1991.
http://www.amazon.com/Miles-Beyond-E...5653246&sr=8-2

One excerpt I found funny as Hell-
Miles tells a young/green Michael Henderson-
"...under no circumstance, DO NOT follow Keith Jarret when he starts playing "that Catholic school ****".

And Jarrett's reaction when he learned Henderson was the band's new bassist-
"Michael Henderson? He doesn't know Jazz...he's from Motown".

[Terry Funk]

Thanks man, this is great.

[chicago_mike]

On The Corner:

My first Miles Davis record/cd I ever bought. And still the most important.

I was so pissed....heres a guy who was doing the music I heard in my head, before I was even born!

"You dont do the reacting. I do the reacting." Many levels to that...many many levels.

LEARN: Michael Hendersons track "Happy"...uber cool.

[WRBass]

That's cool when he said that he woke up to see Bill Cosby and Duke Ellington standing over him.

[Low Main]

One of the mysteries of life is what was Jarrett doing working with Miles in those bands to begin with and playing a Rhodes, of all things?

And being one of three keyboardists on some sessions? That's so not Keith.

He was young, it was there, so was he...things happen.

Between the Miles gig and the prior Charles Lloyd gig, our poor sensitive hero pianist spent his entire early adulthood playing with the two most popular acts of the time period in the "jazz" genre to full raucous houses around the world.

He sure made up for it later: "I'm going to go grab a box of Kleenex and make barnyard noises like Monica Seles while I play my own personal Steinway Concert Grand. Anyone in the audience who so much as unwraps a stick of gum during one of my excursions will be waterboarded."

[Dr. Cheese]

Here is what I think is some recent concert footage of some Miles Davis alumni including Michael Henderson:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKD3y2N6NhI


BTW, I agree about learning "Happy" it is from Michael Henderson's In the Nighttime CD,

[JAUQO III-X]

Check out the Miles Davis Isle of Wight concert DVD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnFhnscKRXQ


Here's the dvd.

http://www.popmatters.com/music/revi...ctricdvd.shtml

[Mushroo]

I love watching Dave Holland in that Isle of Wight performance. He looks so young and happy!

[RHFusillo]

Originally Posted by Low Main

One of the mysteries of life is what was Jarrett doing working with Miles in those bands to begin with and playing a Rhodes, of all things?

And being one of three keyboardists on some sessions? That's so not Keith.

Miles Davis' influence and pull was very strong. Jarrett compromised (sort of) to play that gig with Miles. Chick Corea, too, wasn't playing electric keyboards until Miles hired him in 1968 or 69.

If you want to hear something that is REALLY "so not Keith," seek out his album, Restoration Ruin (Vortex, 1968). It will make you question whether the Miles gig was really a compromise for him. Here is the review from allmusic.com:

Restoration Ruin is a real oddity in the Jarrett catalog: a vocal album on which he plays all the instruments. And not a jazz vocal album, either, but a folk-rock one in which he alternates — quite literally, track to track — between sub-Dylan outings and more folk-Baroque ones that echo the late-'60s work of artists like Love and Tim Buckley. There's a certain amateurish appeal to the LP, in keeping with other crossover acid folk artists of the period. Yet the fact is that Jarrett is a major jazz musician, but a journeyman-at-best folk-rock singer (with a hoarse, wavering croon-whine), instrumentalist, and songwriter, with a bent for flaky wordplay that gives this a bit of a fried-psychedelic tinge. At times, to be harsh, it's less than journeyman, particularly on the Dylan-esque cuts, which have almost embarrassing wheezing son-of-Dylan harmonica and some downright embarrassing out-of-sync drums. Better are the daintier, more melodic tracks with trimmings of flute, strings, and flamenco-like guitar, like the title song, "For You and Me," and "Sioux City Sue New," with their bossa nova feel.

It's a pretty funny record, and obscure for good reasons.

[RHFusillo]

That video clip was wonderful, and too damned short (I wonder where I can get the full version). I have a CD of the concert (Vienna 1973) that opens the clip.

Michael Henderson is one of those bass players who influenced me greatly without my knowing it. He and Al Foster were brilliant at holding down those grooves.

Pete Cosey is a genius. Imagine playing on the most controversial recordings of Miles Davis and Muddy Waters.

Liebman has said that he was uncomfortable being the only white guy in that band, given the racial tensions of the time. I saw him play quite often around that time. Great player.

[JimK]

Originally Posted by RHFusillo

Pete Cosey is a genius. Imagine playing on the most controversial recordings of Miles Davis and Muddy Waters.

There's a "controversial" Howlin' Wolf album, too...Electric Wolf.

[willgroove2]

On the electric miles DVD Branford Marsalis talks about how some of those guys were doing things they wouldn't normally do or like because it was Miles Davis asking them to

[Blavelle]

wow. Dave Liebman frequents a jam session at the deer head inn in PA and I've jammed with him...I'm 1 degree of jam separation from miles! haha