PETE COSEY

Cosey shook things up with Miles on the much misunderstood highly combustible and influential 1976 released double album Agharta recorded in the Japanese city of Osaka the year before, an album that purist critics just did not get at that time along with the equally fine companion album Pangaea. He’s also on Get Up With It and Dark Magus. Born on 9 October 1943 the son of a musician father who played with Sidney Bechet, Cosey as a child learned violin, accordion and piano and sang in the choir. Before working with Miles in the 1970s Cosey played with Muddy Waters for Chess Records and also appears on albums by Howlin’ Wolf and Etta James. While still at the blues label he appeared on many sessions and liked to play the electric choral sitar tuned like a guitar but with a bridge and drone strings like a sitar, which he used read more...