https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:17:15 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/davis-miles/77576/ https://wist.info/davis-miles/77576/#respond Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:51:24 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=77576 If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad.

Miles Davis (1926-1991) American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer. [Miles Dewey Davis III]
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Related by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, whom Davis startled when, after Hancock struck the wrong chord, Davis improvised and riffed off the chord for the remainder of the set. Attributed in W. Richard Patterson, Thinking Straight (2023) ]]> https://wist.info/davis-miles/77576/feed/ 0 77576