some people said that this album is screwed-up mix of things that just don't go together, but for me, it conveys more modern city sounds. specially this tune, it has cool minor feel, like getting up in a crowded city.
This is Miles Davis come full circle. The title Duke Booty refers to Duke Ellington and Miles quotes Ellington's tune "It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got that Swing" throughout.
This song makes me want to do the following:
Get in a fight.
Be the most productive that a man can be in any given day in history.
Flirt with the sexiest girl in the room full of confidence in me.
Play it again.
I love this, I first found Miles about half a year ago, when I was 13, when a music teacher recommended him to me and he soon rised to the top of my list, taking the place of the previously unbeaten Red Hot Chili Peppers!! I love all of it! From this to Kind of Blue to ESP to Bitches Brew and even "You're Under Arrest"!!
I was lucky enough to see Miles several times. The last was at Ovens Auditorium in Charlotte, NC a few months if not weeks before he passed. It was mind blowing of course. I was in the airport the next day and I noticed Mile's bass player boarding a plane. He had a t- shirt on that had a picture of Mile's face with the words "Miles Ahead".
This was not just my favorite track from his last album but the significance of it is the hip hop influenced rhythm and beats. I mean, here is a legend that was always hipped to what is current and relevant for so many decades. He was such a trendsetter in each style and era of Jazz. Now here he is telling you, this is where its at. It was a little around this time we started to hear or pay more attention to other Hip-Hop/Jazz influenced albums (Branford Marsalis's Buckshot LeFonque, Guru's Jazzmatazz, Roy Hargrove's RH Factor, and so on). My man Miles!