Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.
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Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.
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What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.
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If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.
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