Chris Murphy in Japan - 1973
from Miles To Go: The Lost Years: An Intimate Memoir of Life on the Road with Miles Davis, pages 84-85:
[... Miles Davis's] physical pain improved the music. He had both a wah-wah pedal and a volume/tone pedal hooked up to his horn, which he usually manipulated with his feet. But in Japan, Miles's legs bothered him so much that he knelt down on one knee instead, playing the trumpet with one hand, and using his other hand to carefully work the pedals. Using this method, he was able to achieve a much greater degree of tonal subtlety than if he had used his feet. When he would go into a soft muted solo, with the rest of the band quieted down to a whisper, then drop to a knee and let that pain … more >>
Chris Murphy, Miles To Go: The Lost Years: An Intimate Memoir of Life on the Road with Miles Davis (New York City, 2002), p. 84-85. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1430580433280 accessed: 3 December, 2024
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jazz
written by Miles Davis, Robert "Bumps" Blackwell |
performed by Miles Davis |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 1973 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |