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Miles Davis Special – Seven Steps to Miles #2

Here we are with the second story drawn from the memoirs of one Green Gostard, better known as Krazy Kat. Let me say from the outset that this chapter is, at least on the surface, somewhat peripheral compared to the other six stories. The first appeared in the March issue of Musica Jazz; the remaining five will be published in forthcoming issues of the historic magazine that has appeared continuously on Italian newsstands since 1945, back when the word “post-war” had yet to enter common usage. The focus now shifts from Dave Holland to Jack Bruce – from one bassist to another, from an Englishman from the West Midlands to a Scotsman. The question that kept echoing in my mind was: what exactly does Jack Bruce have to do with Miles Davis? Very little, one might reasonably answer, if one confines oneself to the evidence provided by the discographies. Miles […]

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