Some retrospective reruns on the Jazz master’s 100th birthday:
–BRIEF ANECDOTE ON BILLIE HOLIDAY, MILES DAVIS, AND KING BENJAMIN
–ON CONFIRMING THAT MILES DAVIS SAMPLED “IN A SILENT WAY” ON SIDE B OF “A TRIBUTE TO JACK JOHNSON”
–ON FREE JAZZ: COLEMAN, COLTRANE, AND JOSEPH SMITH
–ON THE FOUR MAJOR 1959 RECORDINGS OF PORGY & BESS
–ON MILES DAVIS’S MOURNFUL 1964 RENDITION OF MY FUNNY VALENTINE
(Amateur photo of Miles Davis’s grave taken by the poster at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, NY)