Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.
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This was 1965, 64, I was going to the conservatory there and later on, I became chairman of the New England Conservatory, which was a classical school with a jazz department.Miroslav Vitous
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So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
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The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass.
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