[JPL] Miles Davis' last words?

[Russ Davis]

>
> JPLers...I got the message below from a listener from Kenya (now  
> living in Oklahoma it
>
> appears) who has listened to my VOA show over the past ten years  
> and sent me this
>
> question (read below)..."What were Miles Davis' last words?"  I  
> thought if
>
> anyone knew we might be able to find out from the esteemed members  
> of the JPL.
>
>
>
> Russ Davis
> VOA's "Jazz America"
> jazz-america at voa.gov
> MOJA Radio
> www.mojaradio.com
> davispro at nyc.rr.com
>
>
> > Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:18:07 -0600
>
> > From: johnson aranda <arandajohnson at hotmail.com>
>
> > Subject: A great year for jazz!
>
> > To: russ davis <jazz-america@
> voa.gov>
>
>
>
> > Hi Russ,
>
>
> > Such a long time I haven’t written to the show – but I have
>
> > been listening throughout and thank you for a terrific job. How  
> are you? I
>
> guess Happy New Year is in order and congratulations
>
> > for the election of Barack Obama as the 44th president, a jazz  
> lover to boot.
>
> Who knew!
>
> >
>
> > I have been exploring the land of jazz, trying to discover
>
> > artists that I had never had a chance of hearing while I was back  
> in Kenya,
>
> and
>
> > boy oh boy isn’t there an entire universe of superb musicianship  
> out here! So
>
> much
>
> > and yet so little time to listen to it all.
>
> >
>
> > However, I would like to ask a question courtesy of my son,
>
> > Wayne. He has heard, over the course of the two years we have  
> been together,
>
> an
>
> > array of Jazz musicians. But he has always had a soft spot for  
> Miles Davis.
>
> > Last week as me and his mother were taking him to school in the  
> morning, there
>
> > was a feature on NPR’s Morning Edition about Miles’ Kind of  
> Blue’s 50th
>
> > anniversary. After the feature, he asked me how old Miles is.  
> When I told him
>
> > he had passed back in ’91, he was sad, not of his passing per se,  
> but that he
>
> > passed even before he was born [he is 9 now]. Then he sat quiet  
> and after a
>
> > moment said to himself, “
> I wonder what his last words were!” I had tears in my
>
> > eyes. When I told him I didn’t know either he asked, “Could Russ  
> Davis know?”
>
> >
>
> > From my son, Wayne to you Russ, do you know what Miles Davis'  
> last words were?
>
> >
>
> > He would appreciate Tutu from Miles album of the same name –
>
> > he loves Marcus Miller’s bass as well.
>
> >
>
> > Always an admirer of your work,
>
> >
>
> > Johnson Aranda, Yukon, Oklahoma
>
>

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