pete cosey

...was an ex-chess records session dude (played on muddy waters' much-maligned electric mud alb) who was also in miles davis' band between '73 and '75, when kind of blue-lovers reckoned the man musta lost his mind. first clip is pete at home playing freddie king's "hideaway." second is him hendrixing out in rehersal with a trio also including bassist melvin gibbs and drummer j.t. lewis. third is his 12-string (! -- shades of robert jr. lockwood) solo on "ife" with miles in vienna, '73. dig his total absorption of blues form, his mastery of weird tunings, his range, his ideas.