And they named it after Bird.

A dialogue, as created by Dan and Steve.

Jaco Pastorius and Wayne Shorter during a Weather Report jam session

Jaco: So, I really think we should write a song named "The Chicken", but it shouldn't be funky at all.

Wayne: Allright man, well what do you got?

Jaco plays B-C-D, B-C-D-G progression

Jaco: I kind of like that riff, but I can't really keep the funk out of it.

Wayne: And really, man, I don't know if that's so much of a "The Chicken" material. I mean, I'm still thinking "bird" when I hear that, but I don't know if we really want to get that specific about it.

Jaco: Right on, right on.

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Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, John Coltrane, 'Cannonball' Adderly, and Jimmy Cobb discuss the titles for A Kind of Blue, Miles' upcoming album

Miles: I really like that first groove we played man, you guys have any ideas on a name for it?

Bill: I don't know, are we going to keep that track? It's only got two chords.

Paul: So what? I finally get to play melody.

John: People will get bored.

Paul: So what? It's jazz.

'Cannonball': Flamenco Sketches!

Miles: What?

'Cannonball': We should call a song Flamenco Sketches!

Jimmy: Cannonball, that's retarded.

'Cannonball': So what?

Paul: That's what I said.

Miles: Cool. So What. What about the next one?

John: Well I was getting a pretty strong sense of the blues, of the color blue. Almost as if all the blues were coming out of the song.

Paul: How about A Few Blues?

Miles: That's pretty weak. Maybe 9 or 10 Blues?

Jimmy: I don't think there are that many blues.

'Cannonball': Flamenco Sketches!

Miles: Shut up, Adderly. I think we better just call it All Blues

ALL: Yeah, man, right on, right on.

Miles: Allright this next one needs to have...

'Cannonball': Flamenco Sketches!

Miles: ...fine.

'Cannonball': Whoo!

Miles: So what about the album title?

John: I thought we were going to say it was something blue, or blue something.

Miles: Well not if all the blues are on track 3...

ALL: Oh yeah...shit.

'Cannonball': Well...it's still a kind of blue, right?

Jimmy: Adderly, if you don't--

'Cannonball': No, wait a second. Even if all the blues are on track 3, SOME would leak through onto the album cover, right?

Miles: I mean we're all pretty wigged out on acid right now anyway, so...sure.

'Cannonball': Then the cover would end up being a KIND of blue?

Miles: Sure, fine. A Kind of Blue.

'Cannonball': Whoo!

Jimmy: Shut up, Adderly.


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