http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2006 by the authors Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:51:13 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/09/17/005804.php#comment-488590 Hey Chrissy baby, what have you done in your miserable life that could possibly compare with Miles, or Ashley Khan for that matter? How can you be so negative, it is patently obvious that nothing, especially jazz, has changed your sad existance. Come back and flame when you are better intellectually armed with something other than a glib comment about his promoting Ms. Spears. Business is one thing, making music is quite another 488590@blogcritics.org Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:51:13 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/09/17/005804.php#comment-405192 Did it occur to anyone that the whole premise of writing a book about one release in the life of Miles Davis is utterly ridiculous, glib and stupid? Kind of Blue is one of dozens of equally compelling works Davis nade in his long tenure at Columbia and that hardly even touches amazing work he did as a kid with Charlie Parker for the Dial label. Then there are years of stuff he did for Capitol, Prestige and Bluenote, all perfectly compelling. The very notion that one can apply some notion of 'quintessence' to someone of this stature is deeply flawed, but then Kahn lacks any real credentials as a jazz scholar beyond amateur enthusiasm and a potential jazz fan hardly needs him to mediate their experience. I hate to rain on your parade but most books about jazz are terrible and useless as I soon discovered as a kid in the 70's trying to learn about an idiom I deeply love that changed my life for the better. May I suggest the work of Lewis Porter, Gary Giddins or Ross Russells tour de force, 'Bird Lives' as far more compelling reads than this shallow thing and beyond that, just buy the music and realize that your own insight will be every bit as meaningful as anything Kahn will ever write. After all, one of his main prior fame claims was promoting Brittany Spears. Need I say more? 405192@blogcritics.org Mon, 10 Jul 2006 01:49:49 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/09/17/005804.php#comment-382374 Thanks for the Inspiration Miles... 382374@blogcritics.org Mon, 5 Jun 2006 17:24:15 EDT