Which is more sublime: Kind of Blue or Love Supreme

[Taverner]

As much as I love Coltrane...I gotta hand it to Miles on this one....

[progmom]

1. this is like Sophie's Choice

I am paralyzed by my inability to choose. :cry:

[tigereye]

2. hey pmom

did you see that jazz show with Yusuf Lateef and a cast of notables? Apparently it
was in Detroit recently? I think it was a NO benefit and it looked like a wonderful cycle of compositions. when I saw the review in the NYT I drooled with envy. Lateef was here recently and I couldn't go, I wanted to kick myself.

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[progmom]

3. i need to look that up

i thought the show was in NY, but celebrating Detroit jazz. i heard part of the radio b'cast.

i've met Yusef Lateef a few times, but have never seen him perform live.

[tigereye]

4. maybe that was it

I think you are right... I'll have to look again. When I saw that, I thought, damn. Wish I lived nearer where it occurred. It looked like an amazing show, wherever that was. Geri Allen was also on the bill, right? I love her.

[progmom]

10. Geri is coming to town in a month or so

to do a performance of Mary Lou Williams' Mass. Should be phenomenal!

[tigereye]

13. wow

they perform that here in Pgh every so often. I havent' seen it although I have heard it on the radio.

I did see Allen do an all female piano tribute to Williams here - it was a great line-up, Marian McP, Allen, Dorothy Donegan ( whom I had the chance to see once in Toronto and didn't - :cry:), and Joanne Brackeen.

I've seen Allen twice and have many of her CDs - I would love to see her again.

[GOPisEvil]

5. What's better, Lagavulin or Glen Livet?

Shit...they're both fucking fantastic.

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. That's easy, Lagavulin. Glennlivet doesn't hold a candle to it.

But yes, they are both very good! Lagavulin is just more very.

[GOPisEvil]

9. That was a bad analogy, but those were the first two scotches I thought of

:D

[mikeytherat]

6. You missed a train! John Coltrane's "Blue Train"

That's the one!

mikey_the_rat

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. I have to go Love Supreme.

But it's really a six of one, half a dozen of the other.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

11. Oh geesh...

You're making me CHOOSE?

:dilemma:

[Spider Jerusalem]

12. Have to go with "Kind of Blue".

Mostly because of Bill Evans. Not to say that Miles, Trane, Cannonball, Jimmy Cobb and Paul Chambers didn't do wonderful work in the "Kind of Blue" sessions, but it's Evans' sublime piano that gives it the edge, in my opinion.