Mark Allison - the 1980's

from Miles To Go: The Lost Years: An Intimate Memoir of Life on the Road with Miles Davis, page 249:

Bobby [Irving, keyboard player] kept hitting this like major 7th chord and Miles [Davis] had asked him, he said, "Don't play that major 7th." And Bobby played the major 7th chord a few other times. And Miles came over to, I believe it was Don Kirk was mixing monitors or something, and I was near. He came over and said, "I'm gonna kill him." And then he played the chord again and I could see his face, you know, wrench up, and he came back over and said, "Give me a hat pin 'cause I want to kill him for a looong time." (Laughter)
cite as

Chris Murphy, Miles To Go: The Lost Years: An Intimate Memoir of Life on the Road with Miles Davis (New York City, 2002), p. 249. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1430820063681 accessed: 1 December, 2024

Listeners

Mark Allison
audio engineer, vocalist, Musician, Songwriter
19??-

Listening to

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jazz keyboard rehearsal
written by Miles Davis
performed by Bobby Irving

Experience Information

Date/Time the 1980's
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, in private, indoors

Notes

Mark Allison being interviewed, recalling working for Miles Davis as a sound engineer. Interviewed by Chris Murphy for Murphy's memoir of working for Davis 1973-1983


Originally submitted by 5011Henning on Tue, 05 May 2015 11:01:03 +0100
Approved on Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:35:25 +0100