The Pan Piper
March 6, 2008 10:02 pm MusicI’m not a big jazz fan, but I have been sitting here for a while, browsing the web on the new 24″ widescreen monitor I bought a couple of weeks ago, listening to Miles Davis’s Sketches of Spain. And it’s pretty amazing. I’ve tried to listen to Miles a few times before, but just never found that it was my thing… I mean, I still listen to Nickelback*, for chrissakes, I’m not nearly refined enough for jazz. And Bitch’s Brew still irritates me some when it finds its way into my iTunes shuffle. But it’s a quiet night in the house, and Sketches of Spain really just hit the right note. “The Pan Piper,” in particular, has me blissed out. (no mp3 to share, but here’s the m4a file)
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* Really. But not that often.

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March 6th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Sketches of Spain is an amazing thing. You should listen to Kind of Blue. If I am not mistaken, it is his best selling album of all time. It might very well be the best selling jazz album of ALL TIME. It still floors me even though I have listened to it probably 200 times. It is, for lack of a better phrase, pure genius.
March 7th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Sketches of Spain is my favorite Miles Davis album of all time. Hands down.