# A Little Jazz Q&A **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 7, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-jazz-q-a/488667 "2009-03-07T19:13:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-jazz-q-a/488667/21 "2009-03-08T16:21:14Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Well, \*\*Kind of Blue \*\*has been described as the closest thing to a heroin trip that doesn’t involve actually doing the drug. I don’t believe Miles was using at the time, but don’t quote me on that. Regardless, it has a languid confidence about it - I have heard that one’s first heroin trip - the one you keep chasing forever after - is not a trip, per se, but a feeling of completeness and being at your peak, tapped into your creative well fully. Given the open, breathy nature of the modal forms Davis tapped for this, and Evans chords’ which suggest far more space than they actually occupy - and laying on top of that a variety of masterful leads from Miles’ less-is-more Billie Holiday tone to Coltrane’s “phrase against” note choices (and Adderly in the middle) you get a wonderful world to explore, supremely delivered. So I’ll go with that…well, two words: languid confidence… > > How’s that? Righteous! Your doubts about Miles’s dope situation at the time helped me remember that one of Evans’s friends (in some interview I can’t remember just where), said that it was Bill’s stay with Miles that got him (Evans) started on dope. I also remember that as a joke of sorts, when Bill joined the session Miles told him he had to suck all their dicks before he could be considered a part of the group. I don’t recall how that worked out. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-jazz-q-a/488667.md?page=1)