So What

..."went in another direction with the music", and formed their own trio. Cobb is now on a world tour with his current six-piece band "So What", the title of the opening track on "Kind and Blue" and a 50th anniversary tribute to the album...

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...Freeloader (Studio Sequence 1); Freddie Freeloader (False Start); Freddie Freeloader (Studio Sequence 2); So What (Studio Sequence 1); So What (Studio Sequence 2); Blue in Green (Studio Sequence); Flamenco Sketches (Studio Sequence 1);...

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(Not really, but I'm trying.) The first song is Lawrence Williams' "Number Three." Ostle throws down a lyrical bass solo. Besides the solo, there's a definite dedication to three's coming out his instrument during the accompaniment: bom boom...

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...of interest. Starting off, as we usually do, with a couple of items about Miles Davis, it seems that Kind of Blue drummer Jimmy Cobb's So What band played last week at the Gem Theater in Kansas City, and the show was reviewed for the...

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...energetic. I also get ideas. The other day, I had to transcribe on the piano the first part of Miles Davis' So What. He's the best soloist ever. [Pictured: Rachel with flutist Hubert Laws] RR: He has so many ideas and a great feeling.

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...each musician took with it. Michael Valentini on bass really shined on this one. Throughout the set, Chase did his arranging magic with So What, Night in Tunesia and the closer Watermelon Manand each were consistently fresh and exciting.

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...surviving musician from the seminal 1959 jazz recording, led the charge. An intentionally premature blast on opening number "So What" signaled that trumpeter Wallace Roney had no intention of recreating Davis' revered solos note-for-note.

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Posted on Sun, Oct. 18, 2009 11:15 AM Review | 'Kind of Blue' 50th anniversary tour with So What tribute band Like valiant soldiers going into battle against overwhelming odds, Jimmy Cobb's So What Band fought courageously...

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...for basic necessities, but a lot could happen in 60 years, man," Russ said later. "That was the '50s, and he was so proud and so successful it was hard for him to admit he was having struggles, you know? " A lot of questions. Not many...

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...the more upbeat pianist Kelly. Then with the introspective Evans at the piano, the sextet recorded "So What," which would become the album's opener, starting with an ethereal bass-and-piano prelude. Cobb hit a cymbal crash just as Davis...

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