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2 Feb 2016 Conversations with Tyler Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Fighting Bruce Lee, Growing Up in Harlem, and Basketball (Live at Mason)
“People from both of those groups play on that one album, and all of the cuts are awesome, so I would say that that’s probably the best one that does not get very much attention.”
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…Let’s talk about Miles Davis just a bit. I find people play the album Kind of Blue too much. It’s a very good album, but it’s become like the Mona Lisa of jazz. You’ve heard, seen it so many times, it’s not that fresh anymore. What in your opinion is the most underappreciated or underrated Miles Davis album and why? For me, the most under-appreciated one is Seven Steps to Heaven. And that shows, I think, Miles’ best group. There’s a big argument, what was Miles’ best group, the one that had Cannonball Adderley, Coltrane, Bill Evans, and Philly Joe Jones and Red Garland or Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, and Wayne Shorter? People from both of those groups play on that one album, and all of the cuts are awesome, so I would say that that’s probably the best one that does not get very much attention. I like Fillmore East a lot, a kind of souped up Bitches Brew. Sketches of Spain, the whole Jack Johnson, that ambient period. There’s just a lot in the career of Miles Davis.…
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