In Reply to: Re: Miles Davis ... posted by Phil Sieg on September 10, 1999 at 07:19:12:
Phil - actually I didn't forget Pops. I just wanted to keep the
discussion on the more modern players who surfaced about the same
time as Miles. I was reluctant to mention any of the swing era
guys because I didn't want to chance having the discussion degenerate
into god knows what. My actual preference is for the swing era
players - Sweets, Roy, Buck Clayton, Louis, Bill Coleman, Hackett,
Butterfield, Berrigan, Bix, Snooky Young (still with us, by the way,
although apparently not in good health and deaf as a post), Red
Allen, et. al. If we are going to debate Miles, then we should be
debating him in the context of his contemporaries - Dizzy, Clark,
Thad Jones, Kenny Dorham, Brownie, Lee Morgan, Hubbard, etc., etc,
all of whom I find to have superior chops and ideas. Mike.
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