Remembering old school memory one day a special assembly was arranged in the main school hall.We all sat around no clue what was going on, in walks Johnny Nash and proceds to give us a mini concert his accompaniment was provided by none other than the late great Bob marley who at the time as unheard of.The two of them were in the uk to promote johnny nash new single ,stir it up written by Marley it was due to this mini self promo tour that Bob Marley was spotted by Chris Blackwell head of Island records and the rest is music history.Tv series the Fugitive with David janssen from the 60s remember the theme music had a sax solo that so captured the mood and the solitary world of the main chracter,sounds say so much..

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So the great Miles was not far away the band was warming up ,but all of a sudden everything went into reverse the band members put down there instruments and trooped back of stage, the soundsystem was switched back on ,looks like there was going to be a delay,after about ten minutes people were getting a bit restless,when thankfully the band members walked back on stage again,to great applause and shouting followed by Miles looking cool but serious ,he broke into a full smile when he recognised someone in the audience,he then went into a on stage brief with his players,this was like no concert that I have been to,getting on for ten minutes on stage and miles hardly noticed his huge audience there was no showmanship from no one the main focus was the music! tonight. The band suddenly kicked into action with that thunderous bass line that was "Tutu" when Miles entered the action with his tight muted blowing the audience goes wild that cool sound just complements the fantastic bass playing of foley,K Garett took on the live sax sections again cool playing after each solo Miles held up big cards with the artists name on them, the first half of concert was mostly of the" tutu "album,after the interval two cover songs were next "time after time" and "human nature"and miles versions just brought the house down. One thing I noticed miles did was to have a zen like focus on every sound the band was making,he wasn`t ignoring the audience he was just so focussed on listening and on creating his art that was his priority .I am glad I saw him because he passed away a couple of years later.When "doo bop came out in 92 I made a tape for the car and one evening was giving a freind a lift home a person who did not like jazz prefering dub ,house ,garage etc,hearing the first two or three tracks from Miles last album he mouthed" who the f--- is that that is great!"that was the miles effect.

Funny even though I have always listened to jazzfusion I never really hit on Miles Davis till the early 80s and then it was by chance a friend at work was selling off some soul and jazz records in order to move over to cds and I brought a few one of which was "Man with thehorn" one of my first serious whole album listens of the man with that horn,I had come across the earlier miles,"Kind of blue","Sketches of spain" and other earlier works but this was my first venture into the 80s Miles.One track stood out straight away "Shout"was a track I had picked up playing on the Robbie vincent hour(a radio jazz show in the mid 70s early 80s that played real jazzfusion in the uk).This was my first listen of miles renewed as I later heard this was the first release from miles for quite a while."Shout" was the main track that caught my ear those four short horn blasts followed by the long screaming horn hit over a funky steely type beat just had to play that one over and over,the rest of the album was quite varied unlike a lot the fusion I was used to marcus miller laying down some super funky bass grooves and a strong bluesrock feel blend in there as well took me a while to get into now I realise Miles was ahead of his time,I had missed the 70s miles so it was moving into the 80s his main focus was to stay contempary but stay true to his instrument,although most of Man with the horn was sounding a lot different from fusion of the time,it was the return of Miles after a time out of the recording studios for more than five years ,but alongside the fusionjazz,was blues,disco,zappa etc this was music aimed at the masses .As I said Miles was not my fave cup of tea in those days tracks like"Shout" and "Man with the horn" where more akin to the fusion or closer to the music ,Cruaders,ronnie laws,spyro gyro etc that I was hot on at that time,but those two tracks seemed to be the tracks on the album that got the critics having problems with this album,still this man making music from the 40s and going strong in the 80s must know something right.From the Shout album cover to pictures of Miles in magazines the look was fresh and today or tomorrow,the now feel was a strong element that stood out for me with Miles in the 80s his bands of musicians where younger and more in tune with Miles focus on staying tuned to modern ideas and sounds. Decoy ,Youre under arrest,Aura,albums became my next three journeys into the mind and concepts of Miles ,Decoy I found similar to man with the horn in feel, but Your under arrest was a different artcle with two well known pop cover songs and Sting voice over this was another gear change for the davis music machine ,great mix of jazzfusion rock and pop tracks "Time after time ,and Human nature redone with the miles horn treament music heaven. Tutu,his next album could Miles get any badder you bet with bassist Marcus miller strong influence Tutu brought Miles bang into jazzfunk 1986 and more. From tracks "tutu" to "splatch" "backyard ritual" this was a new fresh Miles the tracks utilised mainly electronic insruments at sixty the man was still kicking it big time ,that album was and still is a real mother of a great album for me ,dynamic, dark yet powerful ,tight horn licks just at the right time, this man could make you laugh and cry at the same time. Couple of years on and Miles is in London town so I got to see the jazz giant in the flesh ,got me two tickets me and my sister get down to hammersmith to see the great man ,the first thing I notice is the range of peoples,old young ,different nations , etc it was a sellout that day and we all gathered from our different walks of life united to catch two hours of Miles live. All of a sudden the place erupted the band was coming on stage,the keyboards, K Akagi, was new to the Miles set up and