Ron Lorman - the 1980's
from Miles To Go: The Lost Years: An Intimate Memoir of Life on the Road with Miles Davis, pages 268-269:
[It was in] ’80, ’81, and ’82. As he [Miles Davis] was coming back out. I was telling somebody this the other day. Half of his audience was young kids wanting to catch up to a new understanding and the other half was fifty and sixty-year-olds, if not older, wanting to hear Kind of Blue and Sketches of Spain. And Miles refused to play that. And for me on an audio side, it was a bit of a complication because the shows were more high energy, fusion rock-and-roll kind of stuff where Mike Stern was steering the ship in terms of volume... reviewers were having a rough time with that, I know … more >>
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Chris Murphy, Miles To Go: The Lost Years: An Intimate Memoir of Life on the Road with Miles Davis (New York City, 2002), p. 268-269. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1430820834964 accessed: 24 January, 2025
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jazz fusion performance
written by Miles Davis |
performed by Miles Davis, Mike Stern |
Experience Information
Date/Time | the 1980's |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
Ron Lorman recalling working for Miles Davis in an interview with Chris Murphy, for Murphy's memoir about working for Davis 1973-1983.
Originally submitted by 5011Henning on Tue, 05 May 2015 11:13:55 +0100
Approved on Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:36:06 +0100