2025-05-26
41 分钟第 2 季 第 5 集
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I would like to begin with a story.
Chris Washburn has been called one of the best trombone players in New York City.
He's also a professor of music at Columbia University.
It occurred in the mid-1960s with the Miles Davis Quintet.
In an office overlooking the Hudson River,
Washburn is telling me about an incident that wasn't recorded, but is part of jazz legend.
This particular story happened when he hired a bunch of very young musicians,
and one pianist that he hired was Herbie Hancock.
This was his first really big break.
On that first tour, in the middle of a song that Miles had played for many, many years,
Herbie Hancock was accompanying him and played a chord that was so long it could not be justified in any musical universe ever.
Quantum jazz.
Herbie froze and thought he had just ruined his career.
And as Miles Davis was playing, within a split second,
he changed what he was playing in such a way.
that made that chord sound beautiful and expected.