![]() ![]() I found a written out transcription of the solo and started working on it. I didn’t think anything of it so l listened to the recording and started playing along and figured out that I couldn’t keep up with Miles. A few years later a trumpeter I was studying with assigned some Miles Davis transcriptions. After those tunes I didn’t try to play any more of his transcriptions, I thought I could move on to more technical solos…and I did. I did my best to mimic his playing on the Kind Of Blue recordings with a fair amount of success. As a young student I heard his recordings and thought to myself, I can sound like that. ![]() In my opinion one of the greatest things about Miles Davis is his sound. I smiled again and went on to tell the student that there is a misconception about Miles Davis the trumpeter that is simply not true. The students then went on to say that he thought Miles Davis was cool but “he was so bad at the trumpet”. I looked at him and smiled and said “Yeah, Miles…can’t say enough about him”. While having a conversation with a students I said “I’m not the biggest Maynard Ferguson fan in the world, but I really like his recording of I Can’t Get Started With You.” The student gave the impression that there are not enough Maynard fans around here, and that we worship Miles Davis. “That guys eats too many plums, he’s obsessed with the valve caps on his trumpet and probably has nothing to offer the world except more pollution.” I laughed to myself then thought…I’m not going to be bothered by someone who doesn’t like plums. Today I flipped it, and imagined what someone might think of me sitting there with a trumpet on my lap. I’ve created resumes for people with jobs titles like Aglet Sales Person and Professional Mouse Milker. They tend to get more and more ridiculous as the game progresses. ![]() ![]() I would look at someone and think…well that person is going to go home and wash his vegetables, then try on his new driving gloves. It consists of giving a person a story based on nothing. One of the games I play is “What’s that person about”. I try not to let my mind wonder during a church service, although it is inevitable, my mind will search for entertainment after the 3rd or 4th listening of the same homily. I am also a musician who on occasions gets to watch people as they sit at church. Which means you get to watch and observe folks as they go through their daily rituals. I grew up in a city where there are a lot of people. ![]()
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