Miles at the Black Hawk & Rediscovering Old Faves

[Sam Sherry]

I'm spinning the Miles Davis' Live at the Black Hawk 4-CD set now. I just got it this morning.

This is a record that I listened to, and played along with, literally hundreds of times as a kid. Turning down PC and grooving along with James Cobb was quite literally one of the ways I learned to play jazz. When I think of jazz, this stuff is by and large what I think of.

It is so cool to hear it sounding clean, and to hear new, unreleased stuff that sounds just like the old familiar stuff. Hey, there's "I Thought About You" -- man, I've never heard this, but there's Wynton Kelly making Miles sound like the Mayor of San Francisco! I can't wait to get home and work out again!

You?

[msw]

I love that set. I had the LPs first, they were some of my first Miles Davis quintet records. It all holds up like it was recorded yesterday! None of it sounds dated to my ears.

[milomo]

That was one of the first jazz records I ever bought, my Dad told me to get it because he liked it. I never dug it as much as "Live at Carnegie Hall" because of the hatchet job editing, especially all those Hank Mobley solo's that got cut out. But with the box set, all those horrible edits are gone, and now it's one of my favorites. It's got a real gritty club sound to it that I love.