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Playing it OutLOCATION: My Bedroom, Rural VermontYEAR: 2000TAGS: Miles Davis, Jazz, CDs, High SchoolPUBLISHED: February 8, 2008Though I’ve upgraded to itunes and an ipod, I still keep CDs. They’re physical, tangible reminders of the music I love. In all my collection though, I cherish one CD more than the others – an old copy of Miles Davis’s “Kind of Blue.” The record itself is regarded as one of the best Jazz albums, if not just one of the best albums of all time. It’s not perfect… in fact, that’s what makes it great – Miles got a band together, scribbled down some guidelines, and turned the first couple cuts of each song into gold. It’s raw… music in the act of growing. Anyone who says “it’s not right,” or “he missed it there,” oughtta just look to the title of the album’s first song: “So What.”
That CD, and really that song, was a nightly companion for me all the way through high school. A daily reminder that whatever I was working on – a paper, math problems, or even girl problems – it was a work in progress…. a person in the act of growing. It was perfect for me... perfect for the time. I basically played the CD right out – it’s so scratched up by now that it skips every track. I’ve replaced it with one that I can actually listen to, but the new one can’t, by definition, supply the same experience as the old. The scratches are evidence of its companionship…. evidence that it was there for all that time. The scratches are what make the first one my favorite.
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