My brother just gave me a cd of a classic Miles Davis recording, "Someday my Prince will Come". I love it, of course. Funny timing, my husband had just picked up a copy of "Bitches Brew" 2 nights before. Guess it's a Miles Davis kind of week for me-I love the cover photo on the older one, I wonder who the woman is, she's beautiful-I'll have to try Google or Wikipedia for some info. I got to see Miles perform once, In London, 1980. Just the man and his horn, an amazing evening. There was a time when I hated jazz. I grew up listening to a lot of it, and for a long time I associated it with some very unhappy times. This started to shift for me in my late 20s,as I came to appreciate a great jazz station that used to exist in the SF bay area called KJAZ-I later learned that KJAZ and I had the same birth year, 1959, though it has passed and clearly I have not. We now have KCSM, which does a great job, but I'm waxing nostalgic here. One piece of jazz from those days that wasn't tarnished with unhappy memories was a tune by Les McCann and Eddie Harris called "Compared to What" from their album Swiss Movement. I can remember my brother dropping by my apartment one day while that song was playing and we both just started dancing together shouting out the chorus "try to make it real, compared to what?!" (There is also a beautiful piano piece on that album called Kathleen's Theme, very haunting and unsettled.) The association has changed, it's become a music that I love and appreciate, so good triumphs eventually.I did listen to some of Bitches Brew, but it's not working for me right now; maybe another time. I tend to favor older jazz, my absolute favorite, maybe absolute favorite piece of music period, is John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things". I feel the presence of Spirit when I listen to that song, it feels like soaring, like ascendance, like pure joy. I'm enjoying this site-picking up some new music, new ideas, etc. and I especially enjoy traveling the MOG-o-Sphere reading and sharing my two cents when so moved!Ciao for now-