Re: Electric Miles: Agartha and Pangaea/golden quartet
So, everyone has mentioned some great electric Miles Davis albums. However, there are a couple more you should considering adding to your Miles collection - "Get Up With It" "Big Fun" Those two will definitely blow your mind. I have both on album, and they are double sets. Great shit from the 70s, which definitely captures Miles' spirit during that time. Also "Tribute To Jack Johnson" Hancock, Shorter, McLaughlin, Williams, makes for a great lineup on this two track disc. Tony William's playing on this album is superb, just as Miles once was quoted saying about Tony Williams, "...that kid can play like motherfucker." If you're looking to grow your straight-ahead stuff, checkout - Dingo soundtrack with Michel Legrand. Cut 14 "Jam Session" has that rockin', bumpin', funkin' "Jean Pierre" groove about it. What's more, guest trumpeter Chuck Findley does a good job of keeping up with Miles and complimenting the album with his own tracks. Miles/Coltrane in Stockholm 1960, is worth collecting too. My most recent addition to my Mile collection is - "Ascenseur Pour l'echafaud". This is a soundtrack Miles composed for a French film back in '58, entitled "Lift To The Scaffold". Talk about the roots of Kind of Blue, it's all right there in this recording! Great smooth Miles! Those of you are you Miles Davis and Frank Zappa fans, play "Pharoah's Dance" and "Bitches Brew" off the first disc, then, listen to "Big Swifty" off of Zappa's "Waka/Jawaka", and you will hear the influence of Miles in Franks playing and his band... but, I'm a music geek like that, so of course it blew me away. Actually, you can play anything off of Bitches Brew, and you'll still hear what I'm talking about in Waka/Jawaka.
From: Matthew Garrington <thegrandguignol@yahoo.com> To: zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Electric Miles: Agartha and Pangaea/golden quartet Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 15:05:36 -0800 (PST)
I looooove "Live Evil." It's a fantastic album. Jack DeJohnette is incredible (he's only on the first disc I believe). Anyone who likes Pangaea or Dark Magus would most likely enjoy Live Evil.
Speaking of DeJohnette, has anyone heard the the latest Golden Quartet cd? How does it compare to the first tzadik release?
matt g
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruno N" <fortytwos@hotmail.com>
Great smooth Miles!
Please don't use the words smooth & Miles in the same sentence!!! * David Beardsley * http://biink.com * http://mp3.com/davidbeardsley
on 1/16/03 10:26 PM, David Beardsley at db@biink.com wrote:
Great smooth Miles!
Please don't use the words smooth & Miles in the same sentence!!!
Anybody remember Miles asking "Why are they always comparing me to Wynton? How come it's never me and Chuck Mangione?" Miles was definitely aspiring to smooth jazz towards the end. We have to face it. sh
Anybody remember Miles asking "Why are they always comparing me to Wynton? How come it's never me and Chuck Mangione?"
Miles was definitely aspiring to smooth jazz towards the end. We have to face it. I thought he was aspiring towards hip hop at the end? It was Miles--he could have been doing both, but smooth jazz and hip hop!? I would want to forget that he was turning towards smooth jazz, but I can console myself that smooth jazz a la Miles would not be as horrific as smooth jazz a la most smooth jazz players (mostly the G man). You can't blame the man for trying to stay current, the only constant in his career. Zach
on 1/17/03 5:22 AM, Zachary Steiner at zsteiner@butler.edu wrote:
I would want to forget that he was turning towards smooth jazz, but I can console myself that smooth jazz a la Miles would not be as horrific as smooth jazz a la most smooth jazz players (mostly the G man). You can't blame the man for trying to stay current, the only constant in his career.
Zach My theory here: Miles was trying to get a hit single because he'd never done that before.
I think, for that matter, the biggest reason for the return to the Gil charts was because he had never returned to a previous book before, and he didn't want to just reunite an old band. If he was going to go back like that, it had to be somehow different. sh
I find it helpful to refer to Kenny G and his ilk as "jizz," not jazz. At 08:22 AM 1/17/2003 -0500, Zachary Steiner wrote:
Anybody remember Miles asking "Why are they always comparing me to Wynton? How come it's never me and Chuck Mangione?"
Miles was definitely aspiring to smooth jazz towards the end. We have to face it.
I thought he was aspiring towards hip hop at the end? It was Miles--he could have been doing both, but smooth jazz and hip hop!?
I would want to forget that he was turning towards smooth jazz, but I can console myself that smooth jazz a la Miles would not be as horrific as smooth jazz a la most smooth jazz players (mostly the G man). You can't blame the man for trying to stay current, the only constant in his career.
Zach
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Chris Selvig
If you come to the non electric miles,what is really a different thing---the <ESP Album> was the one that impressed me a lot, " agitation" on it is a fantastic piece with young T.Williams on drums FK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruno N" <fortytwos@hotmail.com> To: <thegrandguignol@yahoo.com>; <zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 12:38 AM Subject: Re: Electric Miles: Agartha and Pangaea/golden quartet
So, everyone has mentioned some great electric Miles Davis albums. However, there are a couple more you should considering adding to your Miles collection -
"Get Up With It" "Big Fun"
Those two will definitely blow your mind. I have both on album, and they are double sets. Great shit from the 70s, which definitely captures Miles' spirit during that time.
Also
"Tribute To Jack Johnson"
Hancock, Shorter, McLaughlin, Williams, makes for a great lineup on this two track disc. Tony William's playing on this album is superb, just as Miles once was quoted saying about Tony Williams, "...that kid can play like motherfucker."
If you're looking to grow your straight-ahead stuff, checkout -
Dingo soundtrack with Michel Legrand. Cut 14 "Jam Session" has that rockin', bumpin', funkin' "Jean Pierre" groove about it. What's more, guest trumpeter Chuck Findley does a good job of keeping up with Miles and complimenting the album with his own tracks.
Miles/Coltrane in Stockholm 1960, is worth collecting too.
My most recent addition to my Mile collection is - "Ascenseur Pour l'echafaud". This is a soundtrack Miles composed for a French film back in '58, entitled "Lift To The Scaffold". Talk about the roots of Kind of Blue, it's all right there in this recording! Great smooth Miles!
Those of you are you Miles Davis and Frank Zappa fans, play "Pharoah's Dance" and "Bitches Brew" off the first disc, then, listen to "Big Swifty" off of Zappa's "Waka/Jawaka", and you will hear the influence of Miles in Franks playing and his band... but, I'm a music geek like that, so of course it blew me away. Actually, you can play anything off of Bitches Brew, and you'll still hear what I'm talking about in Waka/Jawaka.
From: Matthew Garrington <thegrandguignol@yahoo.com> To: zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Electric Miles: Agartha and Pangaea/golden quartet Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 15:05:36 -0800 (PST)
I looooove "Live Evil." It's a fantastic album. Jack DeJohnette is incredible (he's only on the first disc I believe). Anyone who likes Pangaea or Dark Magus would most likely enjoy Live Evil.
Speaking of DeJohnette, has anyone heard the the latest Golden Quartet cd? How does it compare to the first tzadik release?
matt g
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