[JPL] Miles Davis' last words?

[Nou Dadoun]

I punted it over to the Miles list and someone pointed out that Jo Gelbard
would probably be the best one to know since she was with Miles at the end.
Here's some background from George Coles' book, The Last Miles:
http://www.thelastmiles.com/interviews-jo-gelbard.php - there are a few
other interviews with her around but nothing I could spot that might have
his last words.  He did die of pneumonia so coherent last words are probably
not likely, hope this helps ... N

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Russ Davis <davispro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:

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