Percussionist Don Alias Recalls Miles Davis at All About Jazz!
For Mel Futorian's second installment of Cymbalism—a column devoted to excerpts from a planned autobiography of Don Alias—she reveals the percussionist's reflections on working with trumpeter Miles Davis
Miles Davis
1926 - 1991
trumpet
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Alias has plenty to say on the recording of Davis' seminal Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970), including how the late legend lifted the percussionist from Nina Simone
Nina Simone
1933 - 2003
piano
's band, and how Alias unexpectedly found himself behind the drum kit for “Miles Runs The Voodoo Down."
Check out Don Alias and Miles Davis, today at AllAboutJazz.com!
