27. "Miles embarassed himself here..." In response to In response to 11
I read these ones before but to mistake John Tchicai-who he must have been refering to since Shepp played Tenor-sax-for Ornette Coleman is really bad. One can not assume that Miles knew who an underground dude like Tchicai was but he should have ears enough to not mistake him for Ornette since they didn't sound similar at all, oh well, I think Miles just wanted to shit on Ornette here but Ornette got the last laugh since the general approach to solos on albums like ''¤Bitc4hes brew'' and ''On the corner'' was hea4vily indebted to the approach of ornette on the ''Free Jazz''-album (=collective improvisation but with the *emphasis* shifting from one4 musician to the next rahter than a serie4s of individual solos)...
That's why it's hard to take Miles serious; he dissed but at the same time had no problem taking ideas from the musicians he was dissing...