why did miles go full retard in the 80s

he definitely did, I know that much

He looks like a skeleton that fell into a tar pit.

>>75106402
nigga you mean as fuck

He wasn't retarded. Look at that fucking brain

He was getting old and lazy and phoning it in by that point. The guy had nothing really left to prove and figured you'd pay $$$ to see him perform anyway.

>>75106357
Everybody except the cinematographers went full-retard in the 80s.

C O C A I N E A B U S E

>>75106439
Long lost descendant of the race that gave the world our creator, Yakub.

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he already started going downhill in the 70s

>>75106452
this too

>>75106437
>>75106402
tru

Aura is good

>>75106472
70s was his best period

>>75106357
Everybody did.

Because Jazz died in the 80s. Nobody was making good jazz albums then.

da whyte man poisoned his mind

>>75107804
At least Tomasz Stańko and Anthony Braxton were. Can't say the same for others affected by the uprising of smooth jazz.

>>75107804
which is why i laugh at anyone here keeping up with new jazz releases. it's been over for decades

I don't care who buys the record so long as they get to the Black people so I will be remembered when I die. I'm not playing for any white people, man. I wanna hear a black guy say 'Yeah, I dig Miles Davis.'

>>75106357
He was trying to keep up with the times.

I kinda respect that as to opposed to being nostalgic for the good ol' days of Jazz. Too much nostalgia these days

>>75108149
He embraced the equivalent of smooth jazz. I'd say nostalgia is better than that. How about avant-garde and free jazz for an opposition?

>>75108199
Miles didn't like Free Jazz, he understood and respected it but wasn't the direction he wanted to go in. He pushed limits by making fusion instead.

But who the fuck is making their best stuff 40 years into their career?

>>75108248
no one, but that doesn't mean you have to make sappy shit

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It's called interplanetary ascension.

>>75108258
YAKUB

>>75108248
Exactly this >>75108254. While not a jazz musician, Scott Walker is a perfect example.

Star People was great for 80's fusion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsXqBdkaZbU

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>>75106357
>in the 80s
He's always been a retard

>>75107804
Michael Brecker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnZc-wekyFc

>>75107804
Bohren.

>>75108464
go to bed

>>75106357
he wanted the approval of black people

>muh smooth jazz
>muh jazz is dead
you people are sentimentalist garbage

>>75108248
>>75107804
ornette coleman

>>75110412
If you honestly believe smooth "jazz" aka jazz to talk over to or castrated jazz isn't a disgrace, you're beyond saving.

>>75110495
how is smooth jazz any worse than soul jazz in the 60s, or big band in the 40s? i'm not saying i like it, but jazz has been this shit since the beginning.

acting like smooth jazz killed "real jazz" is a comforting lie that lets you fetishize the past and ignore the present.

>>75110724
>but jazz has been this shit since the beginning.
Everything made sense until this.

>>75108421
Why is he still so based

>>75110760
whoops, not what i meant to say. i think "been" was supposed to be "had," ie, there's alway been a vapid, trendy side to jazz, smooth jazz just being a recent manifestation

>>75110854
>there's alway been a vapid, trendy side to jazz, smooth jazz just being a recent manifestation
Exactly. Who do you think was most responsible for the bastardization of the genre besides Kenny G?

>>75110900
Paul Whiteman

>>75110945
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn27IcAapPI
Why did such a musician had to go the smooth jazz route?

>>75111011
because that shit pays the bills

guarantee you the majority of smooth jazz albums are played by people who don't give a fuck about the music

>>75111090
>guarantee you the majority of smooth jazz albums are played by people who don't give a fuck about the music
Quite obvious, isn't it? I was being facetious with the previous question. I suppose the majority of "jazz" gigs in New York are smooth jazz gigs too.

>>75111205
smooth jazz has died down quite a bit since the 90s

shit like snarky puppy is the millennial equivalent of smooth jazz

>>75111011
Was he ever not smooth jazz? Benson is pretty cool honestly for pop jazz.

>>75111297
Breezin' is usually considered his first actual smooth jazz album

his earlier stuff is a lot of soul/funk/fusion influenced albums. still very "poppy" jazz, like a predecessor to smooth jazz. Beyond The Blue Horizon is fucking good.

Cocaine's a helluva drug

>>75106402
Legit looks like a bog mummy