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[quote="Joe DiMonte"]Maybe they don't mention Miles because his accomplishments are beyond their ken. Seriously, I don't know any real trumpet player who doesn't acknowledge that Miles could really play. Again I submit Tune Up from 1955, Orbits from 1966, and Jack Johnson from 1971. Can you play any of those? Few can. It is a lie that he was inferior technically. Check out the new DVD, Another Kind of Blue, his performance from 1970 at the Isle of Wight. He plays incredibly and doesn't miss anything! The received wisdom in this case is simply wrong. Even after the retirement he played astonishing things, that few on this list would be able to reproduce, let alone think of on the first place.

Michael McLaughlin

"When one is young one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tates, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings, and rather to risk trying even what is artificial-as the real artists of life do."
Nietschze, Beyond Good and Evil (Walter Kauffamn translation)

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Joe DiMonte

When great trumpet players sit together and talk of other great trumpet players,they will speak in hushed tones of Messrs.Morgan,Hubbard and Terry.
Arrivederci.

Maybe they don't mention Miles because his accomplishments are beyond their ken.
[u]Miles is the foremost name I've heard mentioned when it comes to jazz trumpeters except here in Pittsburgh,Pa where Roy Eldridge rules supreme.[/u]
Seriously, I don't know any real trumpet player who doesn't acknowledge that Miles could really play.
Miles was a superior jazzman but not the best I've seen in my lifetime,to date.
I've listened to almost all of his pre 1964 recordings and I have no quarrels
with any of his offerings but must admit during that period the much overlooked Howard McGhee was also a superior player.

Again I submit Tune Up from 1955, Orbits from 1966, and Jack Johnson from 1971.

Can you play any of those?
I'm neither a musician nor a trumpeter but one who supports the art since 1963 and have seen great trumpters since 1962.

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"Clark Terry - C.T.,as his friends call him,is not only a master of the trumpet and flugelhorn,but a master musician and a leader to the manor born." - Dan Morgenstern.