Yesterday evening I was invited by a friend at the Music City to attend a concert as part of the exhibition (which I can only invite you to visit ) We Want Miles.
At the entrance of the City, a characteristic hat caught my eye: it was Marcus Miller.
Bassist Emeritus though not necessarily one that makes me quiver, Marcus Miller became famous in the early 80s on a few albums by Miles Davis, including the famous title Pierre Jean on the album We Want Miles.
short, a bassist and recognized without doubt one of the most publicly known (at least jazz fan).
alone, almost incognito, without court or fan club, body guard or a press busy, see the inevitable band mates. All attributes of false celebrities who reassure their talent by the size of their entourage.
He found himself inside the room, we ended up sitting a row ahead of Miller, always alone and as cool as can be a guy who does not have much to prove.
Discussion naturally engaged with him memories of concerts in Montreux and quickly we came to discuss the concert Jack DeJohnette, who yesterday had reissued its tribute to Jack Johnson. The first thing was that Miller had noticed the guitarist DeJohnette played on a fretless guitar double neck. And conclude in welcoming the difficulty of the exercise than usual "even The Animals run away" to listen to a fretless guitar!
only remained to go to the exercise of the autograph on an old photo of Miller and the concert began. A rhythmic
articulated around two batteries with Ndugu Chancler, year veteran of jazz fusion seventies and Darryl Jones on bass. Two keyboards including a follower of old Mini Moog. Nicholas Payton on trumpet and a saxophone player in India. And in the center, four Indian musicians, flute, mandolin, tabla, tambourine-kanjira the scope and extraordinary sound mridangam (drum barrel-shaped). And
amusing situation ultimately end up sitting next to Marcus Miller and Jean Pierre play the song with Darryl Jones on bass!
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