Five Weeks For Miles - Week 3 "Plugged Nickel"
- Nick Maclean
- May 13
- 2 min read
Brownman's FIVE WEEKS FOR MILES series has been having raucous sold out shows and I am SO excited to be playing this Saturday in the series' third week, THE SHORTER YEARS! Mile's second great quintet with Wayne Shorter (and my own personal hero Herbie Hancock) performed some of the most exploratory and risk-taking jazz we've seen in history. We're paying tribute to these giants with two sets where we'll be diving deep down the rabbit hole - acrobatics with no net - we have no idea where the music is going to go and that's part of the fun! Come take a journey with us!
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FIVE WEEKS FOR MILES @ Contxt
every Sat in May
WEEK 3 - SAT-MAY-16
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"Plugged Nickel" - The Shorter Years
Two quintets in particular featuring 2 tenor saxophone giants dominated Miles' musical life almost exclusively from the mid 50's, right up until the 70's, one featuring John Coltrane and the other featuring Wayne Shorter. This period would feature an assortment of quintets and sextets all pushing the boundaries of improvisation within a simple modal framework, but the two teamings that would leave the world breathless would be those of Coltrane and Shorter. Of those two teamings it would be the Miles-Shorter pairing that would result in some of the most explosively creative & exploratory jazz in Miles' history. "Live at the Plugged Nickel" (Columbia / Legacy, '65) continues to be a paramount recording in the great Miles lineage and considered by many to be some of the most ground-breaking jazz in history.
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:: Brownman Ali - trumpet (JUNO nominee)
:: Joel Bracken - tenor sax (24 year old next gen monster)
:: Nick Maclean - piano (JUNO nominee)
:: Duncan Hopkins - upright bass (JUNO nominee) (*** Chris Banks subbing)
:: Jacob Wutzke - drums (JUNO winner - from Montreal)
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