Don Chidl and Miles Ahead

Jump into the past, which is shifted to the future

If last week there was a conversation about the letter of S, SE in the lists of compact disks of Steve Harris and Scott Janou, now it is logical to go to the letter Dee, de. The reason for such a forced transition, release to the screens this week Don Chidl "Miles Ahead". And Miles is Miles Davis and he is enough for one in the fourth letter of the alphabet.

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The film of Don Chidl was released on April 1, Miles was born on May 26, 1926. Why is this a lead? I think the answer is simple - the director and leading actor prepares the audience for the anniversary of Miles, for the release of this not quite ordinary film under the auspices of Sony Pictures Classic.

Miles Davis - Miles Ahead - 3:29 (Miles Davis - Miles Ahead - Columbia)

“Miles Ahead” is a wonderful play of words, both for the composition and the rabbi of Davis, and for the biographical film of Don Chidl. Or rather, this Biopic, as the Films-Biography is called on the other side of the Atlantic, is actually an improvisation on the history of the life of a trumpeter. The same improvisation as in jazz.

“Miles Ahead” is the first joint disk that at that time vinyl recorded by Davis along with the Canadian pianist, composer, arranger and conductor of the orchestra - Gil Evans. The recording was made almost entirely in May 1957 at the Columbia studio in New York. Later, Miles, dissatisfied with the results, recorded in Overdubbing, in the imposition, as he said “Plates”. In the stereo version, they are especially noticeable. Who played? Miles on Flyelgorn and two participants in the rhythm of the group of his combo: Paul Chambers - doublebas and art Taylor - shock. Gila Evans orchestra.

This disk denoted the transition to the third course. Evans thought him out as a suite. It is musical to the merger of jazz, European music and World Music.

Miles Davis - My Man's Gone Now - 6:15 (Miles Davis - Porgy and Bess - Columbia)

"My Man's Gone Now" - George Gershvina. Sirina's song mourning the murdered husband.

One of the two best disks of Miles and Gila: "Porgie and Bess." The second is “Spanish sketches”. This vinyl was recorded a year later than Miles Ahead - in the summer of 1958. Davis plays on this plate both on the pipe and on the flogelhorn. Gila Evans orchestra.

Don Cydl for years has carried the idea of a film about Miles Davis. Yes, he was an actor and successful. And he played biographies in films. He was nominated for an Oscar award in 2004 and became a winner of the Golden Globe in 1998. In the film "Rat Article" he played the role of Sammy Davis. A flock is the actors of the business show - Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and, of course, Sammy Davis.

The co -author of Don Chidl on Miles Ahead was screenwriter Stephen Beigelman. Cydl during the preparation of the script avoided the trend of Biopic, biographical tapes. His idea was the creation of a film in which only three days from the life of a trumpeter would be far and crap. Three days of the late 70s.

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Miles Davis - Down - 7:15 (Miles Davis - Birdland 1951 - Blue Note)

"Down", "down", the composition of Davis, his concert at the Birdland club in 1951. Miles is a pipe and a leader; JAI JAGE JONSON TROMBON; Sonny Rollins-tenor Sax; Kenny Drew - piano; Tommy Potter - double bass and art Blake - drums. June 2, 1951, New York.

Record from the difficult, a concert from difficult, sextet from difficult. All on some chemistry. Miles is still bipan, but it feels that he drives himself, forced that this is the limit. "Down", "down" - down where? Ahead of his father’s ranch, outbuilding next to the house and eliminating, evaporation of heroin. Water and juice. Almost like in Rehab, only independently. Slowing down later, gritting your teeth. The terrible chapter in his autobiography. And - away from this already impossible music. Ahead and ideal solo. Like on disks with Evans. And further. Always further. Where? There were saxophonists in his quintes. In the first - Sonny Rollins. In the second - the young talent Wayne Shorter. On the disk, “Miles smiles” (he is already smiling!) At Sax, Wayne was on Sax. But he played the citizen of Miles, you can hardly distinguish when crossing. This is 1966.

Miles Davis Quintet - Circle - 5:52 (Miles Davis - Miles Smiles - Columbia)

"Circle", "Circle" the play of Davis. Circle of friends? A vicious circle? Post-Bop melancholy ...

Miles is a pipe and a leader; WEIN-tenor SAKS; Harbie Hankok - Piano (sorry not to be too convex!); Ron Carter - double bass and Tony Williams shock. October 24, 1966.

Literally relatives of the trumpeter chose the role of the director and actor playing Miles Don Chidla. They knew about the project. The initiator on the part of the family was the nephew of Milesa Drum and the producer of the discs of Wins Wilburn the Younger. He was responsible for Miles's legacy to the whole family. The pianist Harby Hankok, who has played in various compositions of the trumpeter for years, approved this decision. Don Chidl himself learned the last one about all this.

All the largest film companies abandoned the idea of the film and the question was before Don Chidl, where to get the money?

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C. Adderley & M. Davis - Somethin 'Else - 8:05 (Cannonball Adderley - SoMethin' Else - Blue Note)

“Somethin 'Else”, “something else” is the eternal desire of Miles to find something else. This is his composition, but the leader of Quintet was in March of that 58, Alt Saxophonist Knnonbol Edderley. This is already a way out of concert Bibop, this is already soaring on the top of Miles. This is already a hard form. Hank Jones played the piano; Sam Jones - at the double bass and art Blake - on drums. The record was made by Rudy Van Gelder at home in Hakensak, New Jersey.

Don Chidl raised eight and a half million dollars per film. Both private sponsors participated in the collection of money, the Family Family of Davis, and Chidl himself, who invested his own 325 thousand dollars in the budget.

Among the mosaic of plots, the second leading role was played by Davis's relationship with the ballerina Francis Taylor. Taylor was already a world -famous dancer, and in the era of Roman with Davis was the star of Leonard Bernstein's ballet “West Side Story”. Miles wanted her to belong only to him and he forced Francis to throw the scene. For the dancer, it was a drama, for Miles she was the greatest love of his life.

Oscar Peterson Trio - Somewhere - 5:38 (Oscar Peterson - West Side Story - Verve)

“Somewhere”, “Somewhere ...” is one of the main topics of Leonard Bernstein’s ballet “Westsaid History”. In this case, the interpretation of the Trio Oscar Peterson - the piano; Rei Brown - double bass and Ed Sigpen - drums. The recording was made at the end of January 1962.

Observer “Download'a” Allen Morrison gives a terrible picture of the first scenes of the film: Miles in his so -called three -year period of silence (early fifties), who did not pick up a pipe for three years, sits in his own, cockroaches, packed with a 77 -West in Manhattan, smelling of cocaine for days. Drinking, swallowing painkillers, temporarily helping to forget about an unhealed broken thigh, sending friends, fans, creditors, producers of recording firms to the devil, answering all an unambiguous frank hostility. The script, as I said, does not follow the literal facts of the biography of the trumpeter, but the above is scattered in his life in different periods.

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Don Cydl externally, add makeup, looks like Miles. Moreover, he was an excellent saxophonist, and for filming he mastered the pipe. And learned all the main plays of Davis. So he is not just sorting out valves. But in the film the sound is not his or Miles. Harold Glaispper plays.

Today it is all that your DS has managed to find out. When the film appears in Europe or on cable channels, it is still unknown. Perhaps some of the collected material will have to be clarified.

Finally, Miles in full. His composition "Ursula":

Miles Davis - Ursula - 10:46 (Miles Davis - The Man with the Horn - Columbia)

"Ursula", "Ursula" -the composition of Miles Davis. Combo Miles, recorded on Kolambia between June 1980 and May 1981. Miles is a leader and a pipe; Bill Evans (not to be confused with a pianist)-sopra-sax; Barry Finneri - guitar; Felton Kryuz - double bass; El Foster - drums; Sammy Figeroa-percussion and Robert Irving-third-synthesizer and (very modestly) piano.

That's all for today. Sound engineer of “Time of Jazz” Natalia Arkadyeva, author and presenter - Dmitry Savitsky. Our next date is exactly a week later at the same stop www.svoboda.org. Great to you April mood, all possible and impossible goods, Chao, Bai-Bai!