Box Set Part Seven: Plugged In and Awesome
Miles Davis is one of my favorite Jazz musicians. When I first started listening to his music I did not realize that This journey would last forever. I also did not know that the journey of his music would make me travel to so many live performances I would be blabbering like a fool for eternity. As much as you know Ornette Coleman is my main Jazz dude. He changed the scope of Jazz and music. Miles, on the other hand really did not like his brash approach and did some condemning on Ornette's music. Miles too did some transforming of his own, to Cool Jazz to Model to Fusion. He wanted to stay relevant. In Plugged Nickel he grabbed the audience by the throat and did not let go. Miles did not know the future, but he did predict that his music was more important then anyone else. He stuck to his principal and while Jazz was diving into Avant-Garde, and Experimental music he kept on doing his thing. His Plugged Nickel performances told us that Miles was on his own path, yet still...
