Saturday, July 15, 2006

StLJN Saturday at the Movies:
Miles Davis performs "So What"

This week's jazz video clip features legendary trumpeter and East St. Louis native Miles Davis performing one of his most famous compositions, "So What." This version, which I think was recorded in either 1958 or '59, features tenor saxophonist John Coltrane, who must have liked blowing over these particular changes, as he later reworked the same 32-bar chord progression into his own tune "Impressions".

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