(04-08-2022, 01:04 PM)NewJagsCity Wrote:

(04-08-2022, 12:07 PM)mikesez Wrote: I hear you.  Any instrument, you can find players with extraordinary talent who can "make your ears bleed".  I'm not denying the talent, I'm just saying I don't enjoy listening to that kind of things as much as I like the expressiveness and improvisation of a guy like Miles Davis.  Davis is not overrated.  That'd be like saying, Eddie Van Halen played louder and faster than Duane Allman, ergo, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest and Duane Allman is overrated.  It's not true.  They're both great in their own way.

Agreed.  Miles is not my cup of tea, except maybe when working late late at nite.  I was referring more to the way critics consistently rate him, as the best trumpet player to ever live, which is pretty disrespectful to 4,000 years of historical musicians and musicianship.  Is he the best of this era within the particular style he's chosen?  Perhaps.

Miles gets the acclaim he does because he radically changed the direction of jazz and improvisational music stylistically.

His trumpet abilities are not unmatched, but his ability to play lyrically with artistic subtlety has yet to be equaled. 
 His innovative and hyper-stylized approach that turned the be-bop world toward cool jazz, and then finally paved a new road of modal jazz composition and improvisation is the reason he is so acclaimed. 

To analyze what jazz music was in 1945 and compare it to what it had become in 1959 when Miles released "Kind of Blue" is actually pretty astounding. There were other innovators and various branches of style growing on the "jazz tree" but none were more profound than the giant canopy Miles Davis grew. 

The music itself isn't for everyone's palate.

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