Blue Haze

Blue Haze is a compilation of tracks recorded in 1953 and 1954 by Miles Davis for Prestige Records. It is a reissue in 12" format of the 10" LP Miles Davis Quartet (PRLP 161), with "I'll Remember April" added. Tracks 4,6, 7, and 8 come from Prestige PREP 1326, The Miles Davis Quartet, recorded 19 May 1953. It features a quartet with John Lewis on piano —replaced on "Smooch" by its co-composer Charles Mingus— Percy Heath, the bassist throughout the album, and Max Roach on drums. Tracks 2, 3, and 5, from March 15, 1954, with Horace Silver on piano and Art Blakey on drums, were first released on PREP 1360, titled Miles Davis Quartet. The first track on the album is from the 3 April 1954 session which resulted in half of the album Walkin' (and was originally included on the 10" LP Miles Davis Quintet (PRLP 185)).

The compositions "Four" and "Tune Up" were always credited to Davis, although both are claimed by Eddie Vinson to be his compositions. Vinson was a known blues singer at that time and had no use for them and gave Davis permission to record them. No one was opposed to the false crediting until "recently", as Jack Chambers wrote in Milestones 1983.

Wig-Wam Bam

"Wig-Wam Bam" is a song by British glam rock band the Sweet, written by songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, released as a single in September 1972. It was the first song where the band was allowed to actually play on their records, as the record company didn't let them play on their own records and session musicians played on their previous five RCA singles. This is the first single on which Steve Priest, Andy Scott, and Mick Tucker played their instruments, as previous singles featured producer Phil Wainman on drums, and session musicians John Roberts and Pip Williams on bass and guitars respectively.

Lyrics

The song's lyrics are inspired by Henry Longfellow's Hiawatha poem from 1855. The story is about a Native American named Hiawatha. He doesn't bother much about Minnehaha, but Minnehaha appears to be in love with Hiawatha and wants to make him her man.

Music

The song featured a significant change in the band's sound, and is often considered the band's first glam rock single. Also, this was the first Sweet single with bass player Steve Priest singing some parts of the lead vocal: the "try a little touch, try a little too much" line at the chorus. This became an important part of Sweet's style later, and at most of their later singles, they also used this technique, with Priest singing some lines of the song. After the song became a hit, Sweet adopted a glam image, starting to wear glitter, Native American clothes and makeup.

Wig Wam Bam (comics)

Wig Wam Bam is a graphic novel by Jaime Hernandez, serialized in Love and Rockets in 1990–93 and collected in 1994.

Background and publication

Love and Rockets was an alternative comic book showcasing the work of the Hernandez brothers—Mario (b. 1953), Gilbert (b. 1957), and Jaime (b. 1959). Most of Jaime's work focused on a group of young women—primarily two named Maggie and Hopey—that have come to be called the Locas stories. The early ones take place in a science fiction world that Jaime was to abandon for character-centered stories in a realistic world, drawn in a slick, streamlined style combining realistic anatomy with traditional cartooning techniques.

Publication

The serialization of Wig Wam Bam appeared from June 1990 to August 1993 in Love and Rockets #33–39 and 42. It first appeared in collected form in The Complete Love and Rockets, Volume 11 in 1994.

Style and analysis

At 120 pages, Wig Wam Bam is the longest of the Locas stories. The narrative unfolds among a series of unannounced flashbacks.