Great post. One thing I noted though, Miles' last classic surely wasn't "In a Silent Way". He was just getting started into his electric period by 1969 which was massively influential, not just to jazz, but to popular music as a whole.
I know some critics don't like that album, but for me, Miles' last classic was "Tutu" (1986). Got two Gr…
Great post. One thing I noted though, Miles' last classic surely wasn't "In a Silent Way". He was just getting started into his electric period by 1969 which was massively influential, not just to jazz, but to popular music as a whole.
I know some critics don't like that album, but for me, Miles' last classic was "Tutu" (1986). Got two Grammys. Written by Marcus Miller. A defining jazz album of the 1980s. That's 41 years after "Ko-Ko".
I think you're right about Miles. I also think there are other jazz musicians who were still making vital music 40+ years on, but it's a little harder to see because jazz as a genre has receded from mainstream notice. There's also the factor that albums and live performances are generally more important than individual songs. But, still: there's forty years between Herbie Hancock's Empyrean Isles and The Joni Letters (which did get an Album of the Year nomination) and nearly 50 years between Ornette Coleman's Shape of Jazz to Come and his Pulitzer-prize winning Sound Grammar. Wayne Shorter and Paul Motian also come to mind as people who were seen as making vital music (and not just museum pieces) late in their careers, easily 40 years after their first breakthroughs.
Great post. One thing I noted though, Miles' last classic surely wasn't "In a Silent Way". He was just getting started into his electric period by 1969 which was massively influential, not just to jazz, but to popular music as a whole.
I know some critics don't like that album, but for me, Miles' last classic was "Tutu" (1986). Got two Grammys. Written by Marcus Miller. A defining jazz album of the 1980s. That's 41 years after "Ko-Ko".
I think you're right about Miles. I also think there are other jazz musicians who were still making vital music 40+ years on, but it's a little harder to see because jazz as a genre has receded from mainstream notice. There's also the factor that albums and live performances are generally more important than individual songs. But, still: there's forty years between Herbie Hancock's Empyrean Isles and The Joni Letters (which did get an Album of the Year nomination) and nearly 50 years between Ornette Coleman's Shape of Jazz to Come and his Pulitzer-prize winning Sound Grammar. Wayne Shorter and Paul Motian also come to mind as people who were seen as making vital music (and not just museum pieces) late in their careers, easily 40 years after their first breakthroughs.
Keep going. I can't stop listening to Aura.