Historic moment alert: It was exactly fifty years ago today to the minute that the first member of the general public tried to use Miles Davis' jazz classic Kind of Blue to get laid. "It was right as 'Freddie Freeloader' segued into 'Blue In Green' that I made my move," says Arnold Woltz, currently residing in Boca Raton, FL, but a broker in Chicago at the time. "She was an artsy broad, I figured she'd be into it." How did he do? "A gentleman never tells," he responds politely, before tilting his head and making the universal symbol for handjob. Anyway, Happy Anniversary, Kind of Blue! Here's to another fifty more.
Monday, August 17, 2009
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STRONGLY AGREE
Your grampa tells the sweetest stories, Balk.
Ah, but then there was the needle on the record, sliding back and forth in the blank end space, and the white hush, until you came up for air from a kiss.
Get Up With It.
So What.
No, the opening bars of So What get me every time.
I'm trying to think of a better record than this.
You're not going to have much success. That record dropped like an atom bomb into popular culture.
Ah, I love this Balk. Great stuff. I had to go see a dentist (emergency time, for real), and he's a vast appreciator of jazz, as i am too. We talked of Miles, and Blossom Dearie and Coltrane before he drilled my brains out. It was memorable! But thanks for this, wonderful.