"Miles Davis was never wrong about music." - Keith Jarrett

The Man with the Horn (1981) was Miles Davis' first album in six years, and it's a great one. The opening track, "Fat Time", has a title that I've always found thought-provoking. My interpretation is that it refers to all the possibilities that are available within a jazz groove, including rhythms that are only felt or implied rather than played. Ergo, the time is fat. Hear for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxDq65Wjua8&feature=fvsr

The latter part of Miles career contains many gems like this one, but they require a lot of background work to appreciate. Step one: listening to the recordings made in the early part of his career. Step two: realizing that an artist of his caliber is never going to be content to repeat himself. If we want to listen to Kind of Blue, there's nothing stopping us, but we shouldn't have expected him to record it more than once. Luckily for us, because so much interesting listening resulted (which will take us many years to appreciate and understand), he didn't.