were by no means his creative peak, as we all know, and he was very often "carried" by his sidemen, confining his own contribution to the occasional brief flurry. Having said that, and recognising that there's no "So What" or "My Funny Valentine", he did record some halfway decent funk tunes - this, for example hogweed turnip
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I was with a girlfriend in a record store some time back, and she said she wanted to buy some Miles Davis, whom I gathered she's just heard of. She pulled a 1980s-vintage disc out of the Miles Davis bin and held it forth for my inspection.
"Dear," I said, "Never buy a Miles Davis record with a robot on the cover."
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I'm not so sure about the carried by his side man part. What Miles was doing was always fresh with the present time. He achieved that by using younger musicians that were on the cutting edge and thus kept him young and his music fresh. That is his greatest contribution to music.
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To clarify, what I meant was that his role qua soloist/lead musician had rather diminished by the 1980s. Not denying that he gave exposure yet again to fresh young players, which was a good thing, but it has to be noted that on many of the later tunes his trumpet playing is somewhat peripheral compared to thirty years before, no?
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I agree, but he could still put more feeling into one note than most could with 100. Keep Jammin