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Description
The Paprika album.

Jazz blurb:

Miles Davis needs no introduction in the annals of jazz history. Having dropped out of Juilliard to play in jazz clubs, he began as a sideman to Charlie Parker's group, left to pursue his own ambitions, dabbled in West Coast/cool jazz in the early 1950's and finished the later half of the decade exploring modal jazz, with Kind of Blue being one of the greatest records in history. Apart from Wynton Kelly, all of the members of the Kind of Blue sessions (besides Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderly, John Coltrane, Jimmy Cobb, Bill Evans) became revered jazz legends in their own right. Shortly after recording, he was beaten up by a NYPD officer in front of the club he was headlining.

His career post-1960 was eclectic: he leapt further into the abstract (though not as far as John Coltrane), explored jazz fusion in Bitches Brew (1970), and moved into a more pop-oriented direction in the 1980's and 1990's, to the dismay and disgust of jazz critics. Ever the experimental hornman, Davis also played around with hip-hop techniques shortly before he died in 1991.

A tribute to Them's Fightin' Herds and the Norman Granz Jam Session albums. Apologies to David Stone Martin.

Description
The Paprika album.

Jazz blurb:

Miles Davis needs no introduction in the annals of jazz history. Having dropped out of Juilliard to play in jazz clubs, he began as a sideman to Charlie Parker's group, left to pursue his own ambitions, dabbled in West Coast/cool jazz in the early 1950's and finished the later half of the decade exploring modal jazz, with Kind of Blue being one of the greatest records in history. Apart from Wynton Kelly, all of the members of the Kind of Blue sessions (besides Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderly, John Coltrane, Jimmy Cobb, Bill Evans) became revered jazz legends in their own right. Shortly after recording, he was beaten up by a NYPD officer in front of the club he was headlining.

His career post-1960 was eclectic: he leapt further into the abstract (though not as far as John Coltrane), explored jazz fusion in Bitches Brew (1970), and moved into a more pop-oriented direction in the 1980's and 1990's, to the dismay and disgust of jazz critics. Ever the experimental hornman, Davis also played around with hip-hop techniques shortly before he died in 1991.

A tribute to Them's Fightin' Herds and the Norman Granz Jam Session albums. Apologies to David Stone Martin.