| EVERY trumpet player has bad nights. Miles had bad nights, and I heard several of them, and Miles did not play mechanically, so when there was nothing happening there was really nothing happening. I heard Roy Eldridge stink up the joint one night (and others where he chased the young whipper snappers out the room). Even Wynton by his own admission has bad nights. The trumpet just be that way. The trick is to have your level high enough that even on a bad night it's still acceptable at least. One of my favorite Miles quotes:"My job is to play eight good measures a night-and to keep you from knowing which measures they are."
Michael McLaughlin
Only sick music makes money today.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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