Bitches.

I've been meaning for a long time to look at the later Miles Davis records done past the late 50's and early 60's, put I've always thought that i don't want to go into what seemed to become by the late nineties Miles looking very eccentric with a bright red trumpet look some sort of metamorphosis and metaphoric interpretation of a musical clown. I'm not doubting the music has some high points at that period in his life but it's always such a strange feeling looking at music building up to business that was never really finished. Take E.S.T for instance, when listening to their last record i always feel eager for more. And to have knowledge that they were rehearsing new material in Esbjorn's basement in Sweden the day before the tragic accident is almost like being slapped in the face. Like a treasure in a tomb that you will never reach or see. And in a way when referring back to artists later musical offerings it's almost as if that you then have to accept your interpretation of it and then think where it might have gone, and in such cases of professional musicians to then try and carry that work onwards.

I don't know why I've just said all that because when I'm talking of Miles's later records I'm talking of his 69 release Bitches Brew. I'll get listening at a later time to the 70's and 80's and real early 90's offerings, but for now and for the past two hours I've been trying to take this CD in after finding it by accident in Grimsby HMV (in the smallest jazz section ever; consisting of Miles Davis compilation Cd's, Dinner Jazz soundtracks - the devils work *spits*, and a few BB King Cd's - blues fans are now queueing up with burning torches and buckets of rotting haddock), which is a miracle in itself.

I've nearly finished through the double set but notably i just love the spontaneous nature of the tunes recorded and i can really see now why this was 'a' or if not 'the' defining moment in changing the face of jazz and changing the progressive music to which the later would diverge into lots of other genres such as jazz fusion, and also influence established rock, soul and popular music at the time. If i was to recommended a track to listen to to get into this sort of jazz or fusion I'd definitely say take the time to listen to the namesake 'Bitches Brew'; where Miles at his melodically simple best, creates a very haunting signature riff using seperate octave intervals for almost primal trumpet screams with lots of echo.

And in final news I've heard YouTube are updating the well known layout of video channels, and to much amusement of myself a lot of people have complained about various bugs and what not concerning the developed beta version. One i've noticed is that you can't click open into the individual video pages to comment on videos, well done YouTube (y) {s33 h0w c00l 1 4m, jnst call m3 Mr L33t lolroflcopter!!11!}. So we'll see if that gets fixed with lots of other stuff, even though that won't take the sour taste away of more sponsor promoted products and greater advertisement of films rather than keeping user generated content at its core. Happy fun times for corporate merger and commercialism.