Still Miles Ahead
Happy 80th to the legacy of Miles Davis...
Jesse Hamlin touched on the Davis's legacy this past week in the San Francisco Chronicle. Despite the fact that Miles would have been 80 and he's been dead for over a decade, his albums are still hot sellers. However, with the way that classical music has pushed into the back shelves of the decaying record store business, I have this recurring nightmare that people will push his albums and legacy into the back shelves along with classical music.
If you don't think it's possible, do this for fun sometime. Go to your local university and ask how many people know George Gershwin...I think you'll find the responses to be quite mesmerizing.
You probably think this post could fall into a 'oh for the past' cry...I'm trying to fight my disdain for people that don't respect the past and tradition. Yet, I've learned that change is a damn good thing. Especially, when I read the following quote from Miles's autobiography "Miles", which by the way is an absolutely a whoop-ass look into his life. The following quote definitely reminds me why I have to innovate, create, and keep moving. Tastes, people, and styles change...That's a damn good thing.
Here's how Miles put it.
"I love challenges and new things...When I hear jazz musicians today playing all those same licks we used to play so long ago, I feel sad for them. I mean, it's like going to bed with a real old person who even smells real old. Now, I'm not putting down old people because I'm getting older myself. But to be honest, that's what it reminds me of...I have to always be on the cutting edge of things because that's just the way I am and I have always been."
Keep pushing for change in your life....
Milestones,
IronDog
Jesse Hamlin touched on the Davis's legacy this past week in the San Francisco Chronicle. Despite the fact that Miles would have been 80 and he's been dead for over a decade, his albums are still hot sellers. However, with the way that classical music has pushed into the back shelves of the decaying record store business, I have this recurring nightmare that people will push his albums and legacy into the back shelves along with classical music.
If you don't think it's possible, do this for fun sometime. Go to your local university and ask how many people know George Gershwin...I think you'll find the responses to be quite mesmerizing.
You probably think this post could fall into a 'oh for the past' cry...I'm trying to fight my disdain for people that don't respect the past and tradition. Yet, I've learned that change is a damn good thing. Especially, when I read the following quote from Miles's autobiography "Miles", which by the way is an absolutely a whoop-ass look into his life. The following quote definitely reminds me why I have to innovate, create, and keep moving. Tastes, people, and styles change...That's a damn good thing.
Here's how Miles put it.
"I love challenges and new things...When I hear jazz musicians today playing all those same licks we used to play so long ago, I feel sad for them. I mean, it's like going to bed with a real old person who even smells real old. Now, I'm not putting down old people because I'm getting older myself. But to be honest, that's what it reminds me of...I have to always be on the cutting edge of things because that's just the way I am and I have always been."
Keep pushing for change in your life....
Milestones,
IronDog
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