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The daughter of bebop artists Stephanie Nakasian and Hod O\u2019Brien, Veronica Swift says, \u201cI grew up on the road with my parents, so like, green rooms and jazz clubs were very much a home and the music was very much a language.\u201d (Photo by Amy Pasquantonino, courtesy of artist\u2019s management)<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have what was at that time the greatest small jazz group that had ever been assembled, bar none. Miles had a way of inspiring everybody to be their best and most authentic self,\u201d he says. \u201cYou don\u2019t find John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley sounding like each other or Bill Evans. You find each of them contributing to this record as themselves.\u201d In just two sessions, they recorded what is still the highest selling jazz record every year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But Davis never rested on his laurels.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the \u201860s into the \u201870s, he started to usher in jazz fusion, which really hadn\u2019t happened before.\u201d Influenced by players like Jimi Hendrix, he released records like \u201cBitches Brew,\u201d \u201cbringing in electronics, electric trumpet and wah-wah pedals and effects\u2026Then, you know, he continued on into more world influences with albums like \u2018Tutu.\u2019\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Berg promises that \u201cyou\u2019ll hear every era of Miles on this concert.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He is quick to point out, however, that Coltrane, who shares a centenary with Davis next year, will also be celebrated. In the tightknit jazz world of the 1960s, his status, too, was mythic. To saxophone players, it remains so to this day. His son, Ravi Coltrane, points to his father\u2019s legacy as nothing short of transformative.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was able to, in a very short span of time\u2026change 20th century music. He died when he was 40 years old.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
From 1955 to his death in 1967, Coltrane changed the course of Western music.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNot everyone does that,\u201d says Coltrane. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t happen every generation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was \u201cthe power of his own conviction,\u201d says his son, that gave him his power as an artist and an innovator. And still, he was a regular man:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, he wasn\u2019t from another planet\u2026He was one of us.\u201d \u201cOne of us\u201d with an outsized talent and an unwavering faith in his own inner vision.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what it\u2019s really about in any creative pursuit: to really trust your instincts and have the courage to follow them,\u201d says Coltrane. \u201cThat\u2019s the biggest lesson that I think I\u2019ve learned from him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
When performing a John Coltrane or a Miles Davis invention, \u201cThe goal is not to try to recreate something from the past\u2026it\u2019s not about nostalgia,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s about finding a personal way to express the music, something that\u2019s unique to the players that you\u2019ll see today. We are honoring them, but at the same time we have to kind of honor ourselves in the same way they did.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The daughter of bebop artists Stephanie Nakasian and Hod O\u2019Brien, Veronica Swift says, \u201cI grew up on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-23210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}