Quincy Jones

Starting in the late 1970s, Jones tried to convince Miles Davis to re-perform the music he had played on several classic albums that had been arranged by Gil Evans in the 1960s. Davis had always refused, citing a desire not to revisit the past. In 1991, Davis, then suffering from pneumoni, relented and agreed to perform the music at a concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival. The … [Read more...] about Thursday Evening Thread: Quincy & Miles