Scarlet woman (Johnson/Shorter/Zawinul) Alphonso Johnson told Glasser, "'Scarlet Woman' was a song that I wrote, and I'd conceived it totally differently to the way it turned out! Joe, in his infinite wisdom--and Wayne too, actually--he was the one who said a lot of times, when he was with Miles, he would bring in a chart and Miles would just play the intro, and that became a great song. So that's kind of what they did: they took that [sings descending four-note melody], and they eliminated the other three-fourths of my song. I like their version better. I've never even recorded the rest of the song. What they did was perfect." |