I saw Davis play that on the pier in Baltimore the night before I went into Walter reed to get my leg put back together. Very "stop in the driveway" good. An American in Paris did that to me later and lead me to find (and frequent) the establishment and downstairs piano where Brubeck composed it just off of L'Opera, in Place Vendome, 1st arr., Paris (I love context).
Christmas night I left work around 8:30 and began my ride home in a fine sifting snow and found myself going the other way, taking a loop around the quiet downtown to see the holiday sights before going to my late night dinner engagement. Everything else in the world was gone and I felt like I was floating along on my bike. Priceless. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Sunday, December 29, 2013 10:24:51 PM UTC-5, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On 12/29/2013 09:00 PM, Capital T wrote: > > I hear that people who drive cars have this experience they call a > driveway moment where they get home and the story on the radio is so good > they sit in the car to finish listening. > > > That's exactly what happened to me the first time I heard _Kind of Blue_. > It was a show on NPR -- I think this very > show<http://www.npr.org/2011/01/04/10862796/miles-davis-kind-of-blue>from > 2001 and two bars into So > What<http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=10862796&m=11303601>I > was hooked. Fixed in place. > > It's still hard for me to believe I'd never heard it -- indeed, never > heard of it -- before, although the record had been released when I was in > high school, 42 years before, and had long been a universally acknowledged > masterpiece and the best selling jazz record of all time. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
