Music Monday: Miles, Buster, and Dave

I keep working my way through Miles Davis’s studio albums this year and as we get to albums recorded in the later 1960s and 1970s, the time commitment necessary listen to the entire album becomes more daunting with most of his 1970s output approaching or exceeding an hour each. Then there is 1969’s In a Silent Way. 38 minutes: For a long time, I accepted that Kind of Blue was Miles Davis’s masterpiece. While I dislike the practice of ranking albums (or books or whatever), it seems reasonable to assert that In a Silent Way is also a masterpiece. I’ll leave it to others to decide whether an artist can have multiple masterpieces. I can’t really add much to what others have written about In a Silent Way: it’s dark, it’s organic, it’s disturbing at times while being palpably brilliant. During my travels, I downloaded the newly released Joe Henderson live album, Consonance, from Tidal onto my phone. I planned to listen to it on various flights, but I forgot the adapter that allowed me to…