Workshop for session with friend N°4 "SO WHAT" Miles Davis

[Jean Pierre]

this is the 4th score proposed by my friends for the session
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"So What" is the first track on the 1959 album Kind of Blue by American trumpeter Miles Davis. It is one of the best-known examples of modal jazz, set in the Dorian mode and consisting of 16 bars of D Dorian, followed by eight bars of E♭ Dorian and another eight of D Dorian.

Not easy to get out of the usual pentatonic blues routines, it's the archetype of the dorian mode approach, if you want to try it there's a blank space around 1mn on the second chorus

[Zoltan]

Although my mental capacities aren't at this level... I still enjoyed this. Miles is heady stuff and i've only slightly dabbled into his ouvre. The favourite being Bitches Brew (That cover art!), and now that i know the guitar used was a Mustang i'm even more into it.

What did this have to do with anything? Well, I guess this activated my brain to some extent and instead of drawing a line (!) i'll just groove along.

Quick Watson...

JP you're a talented musician!

[StephenM]

OH HELL YEAH jp....

if it was Fillipino it wud be killa in manilla....
that is flippin great guitar... and all the rest too... damn it man ....

wow... you know the chords sir...

[Rene Asologuitar]

this is the 4th score proposed by my friends for the session

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Hi Jean, This is really cool video, and the teach is quite lovely extra!!!
Thanks for this lesson.
Lovely guitar solos.
Rene

[Jean Pierre]

thanks guys for your comments

Zoltan said

[The favourite being Bitches Brew (That cover art!), and now that i know the guitar used was a Mustang i'm even more into it.[/quote]

I have a story about the Fender Mustang, a great guitar that I played in the 60's. I was very young, vaccinated with the guitar by the shadows and having turned to R n R with the British wave 5stnes, beatles, animals, Kinks...), I was part of a youth band in my small town in France.
In my band I was guitar lead (I was the only one who knew how to bend and I had a lousy guitar and our new bass player had a genuine Fender Mustang (it must have been one of the only one in France, Fender guitars were not imported at that time
and so all the competing bands in the area wanted to poach me not for my guitar skills but to have this prestigious guitar in their band :RÉ :RÉ :RÉ

I did a little research in the Bitches Brews record by Mile Davis, the guitarist was John McLauglin and on the page of the official site of JML there are the many guitars of his RIG, ...but no Fender Mustang 
https://www.johnmclaughlin.com/equipment/

[Hook]

Impressive brother, I dig.
Rock on!

[Zoltan]

Great memories JP! Thanks for sharing.

This lists the Mustang as Bitches Brew guitar:
http://www.popeye-x.com/antippx12/000003c3.htm

And if my memory serves right... The original source was John Mclaughlins older website

[Jean Pierre]

So you were right Zoltan! John Mc Lauglin did play a Fender Mustang in the 68-70's

[Mike_S]

Some of of Miles Davis stuff goes over my head, but this is great, I have Kind of Blue on CD and it's wonderful. Some wonderful playing JP. The tones are perfect.

Mike

[Jean Pierre]

Mike

Some of of Miles Davis stuff goes over my head,

Me too, it's often too complex a music for me, so don't think I'm a fan

however this piece is quite accessible and historically important, archetype of modal jazz