Site Update

strange that one cannot add tags or categories to a page.

At least …. i don’t know a trick and i read that it isn’t possible.

So just an announcement here.

I posted a Poetry page with a first contribution.
Poem by Edgar Allan Poe – Annabel Lee

Jazz & Blues Experience on YouTube

Not all music here i would like to call Jazz or Blues and a rather strange experience on youtube … i have hardly found any real video …. but nevertheless … just for the music …. a nice find and certainly a worthwhile link to keep an eye on !

music (1 of 3) jazz

Well to get a good taste for reblogging, I maybe better also reblog this one to add another good taste of music to my blog :-) Thx Gavin !

Miles Davis in cool Black and White

Miles Ahead session in Studio 61 in New York City. The show was broadcast on July 21, 1960.

The Miles Davis Quintet

• 00:00 to 10:40 – So What (composed by Miles Davis from the album Kind Of Blue)

Miles Davis with the Gil Evans Orchestra

• 10:41 tp 14:04 – The Duke (composed by Dave Brubeck from the album Miles Ahead)
• 14:05 to 19:57 – Blues For Pablo (composed by Gil Evans from the album Miles Ahead)
• 19:58 to 24:21 – New Rhumba (composed by Ahmad Jamal from the album Miles Ahead)

Look here for all session details. Of course it’s great (for me as a jazz lover) to see these jazz Master(s) at work. Besides Miles Davis himself we also see that other giant , John Coltrane. Personally i also enjoy to see Gil Evans, who had such an important influence on Miles Davis. But what makes this video also very interesting for me is its registration in b&w. Such cool light and shadows , great portraits from marvelous angles , fine focus. I see many wonderfully composed shots which are worthwhile to be studied with a photographic eye !