RTP-area local music and culture

["Todd Morman" <tmorman AT nc.rr.com>]

> As I recall, there was a picolo bass player in Miles Davis' band back in 
> the 80s.

Don't know about the 80s, but Ron Carter played with Miles on all his 
classic mid-60s stuff, according to Allmusic invented the piccolo bass, and 
uses it on a lot of his records, including the pretty good "Piccolo" from 
1977.

todd 1969's "Uptown Conversation" is my favorite tho morman