Analytical Blog
Essential question: How does a musicians stage presents effect their overall performance. When reading Herbie and Miles' biographies, I learnt a lot about what they had to say when it came to stage presence. Miles had a whole three chapters on how he thought about the ways that he held his horn and what clothes he wore. At first I thought this was a little bit silly, but Miles validated this topic quite well. He told a story about when he was part of Charlie Parkers crew they stopped wearing ties with their suits. Now this does not sound very exciting by todays standards, but back then this was huge. They made a name for them selves by how cool they dressed. Miles' whole thing was being dressed as sharp as he could be. He did this so that he could look cool when he played jazz to his audiences. I got to learn about how this effected the listener through Miles' eyes too. Miles described listening to a few of his home town bands as well as Dizzy and what they were wearing.