Vinyl Wednesday: Miles Davis - Milestones

Surprise, surprise, here it is: Susanne Alt - Royalty For Real recorded live at Pop & Jazz Hilversum on October 19th, 2024. Thank you Co de Koet, Marc Broer, Ziva Sound and Buma Cultuur for making this possible. Very happy with the way it sounds! Compliments for the engineers! The band line up: Susanne Alt (sax), Hans de Wild (keys), Thomas Pol (bass), Cyril Directie (drums) and Helene Jank (percussion).Are you familiar with Concertzender? Celebrating 40 years this year, being unique in its programming of classical, jazz, world, contemporary music of all kinds. Discover new and old, listen to music as you wish, choosing between the real time radio programming and the theme channels.. Also listen to World Of Jazz, the jazz channel of Concertzender. Enjoy!You can become a vriend of the radio station and contribute which is very welcome, since this station is only partly funded and wouldn't be possible without donations. - This is an iconic album, influencing many jazz musicians. The line-up: Miles Davis (trumpet), Cannonball Adderly (alto sax), John Coltrane (tenor sax), Red Garland (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Philly Joe Jones (drums). For me as a saxophone player, this album is a good example of 2 saxophone players playing in the same context, not being competition, because they think and play so differently. Music itself is no competition. To me, together with leader Miles Davis on trumpet, they represent different colours, almost like the prime colours red, blue and yellow. When I think of them, and I had to explain them to someone who is not a fulltime jazz freak I would describe them like this: Miles plays minimalistic, thematic and lyrical, Cannonball plays melodic, buzzing and always sounds happy, Coltrane plays monumental, theoretical and cool. Oh, and Cannonballs always succeeds to communicate the tune to the rest of the world, play a funny quote.. while Miles leaves out the notes which make the connection, and Coltrane start to float and fly within his own concept, Cannonball is a bit more connected to the rhythm section. They all definitely set the tone for generations of horn players to come...Read further, more grounded stuff on WikipediaListen here to the tune Sid's Ahead, where Miles also plays piano.