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Your top 5 Miles Davis albums (in no order)
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Re: Your top 5 Miles Davis albums (in no order)
C wrote:The Slider wrote:
Best Miles is late 50s Miles into the 60s.
Agreed
Worthy of mention are the recordings at two sessions on May 11th and October 26th, 1956 that produced four albums:
Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet
Workin' with The Miles Davis Quintet
Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
All robust stuff
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Yup
But I couldn't split them
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Re: Your top 5 Miles Davis albums (in no order)
The Slider wrote:C wrote:The Slider wrote:
Best Miles is late 50s Miles into the 60s.
Agreed
Worthy of mention are the recordings at two sessions on May 11th and October 26th, 1956 that produced four albums:
Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet
Workin' with The Miles Davis Quintet
Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
All robust stuff
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Yup
But I couldn't split them
Exactly
Those that are not familiar - this is available:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Classic-Albums ... C78&sr=8-2
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LMG wrote:If more of the trickier/complex jazzers in the sixties had made records this lush and inviting, the more inventive side of jazz might have caught on.
Kenny G may never have happened.
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Re: Your top 5 Miles Davis albums (in no order)
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Miles Smiles
E.S.P.
Milestones
Kind of Blue
In A Silent Way
Regarding E.S.P., trumpeter Kenny Dorham's comments:
"Kenny Dorham reviewed the album in the December 1965 issue of DownBeat, awarding it 4.5 out of 5 stars, but commented: "Emotionally, as a whole, this one is lacking. It's mostly brain music... This type of music has that drone thing that I don't like, but because of the almost flawless presentation, I give five stars—but only four stars for the writing and effort—and no stars for the over-all sound. E.S.P. music in general is monotonous—one long drone."
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Miles Smiles
E.S.P.
Milestones
Kind of Blue
In A Silent Way
Regarding E.S.P., trumpeter Kenny Dorham's comments:
"Kenny Dorham reviewed the album in the December 1965 issue of DownBeat, awarding it 4.5 out of 5 stars, but commented: "Emotionally, as a whole, this one is lacking. It's mostly brain music... This type of music has that drone thing that I don't like, but because of the almost flawless presentation, I give five stars—but only four stars for the writing and effort—and no stars for the over-all sound. E.S.P. music in general is monotonous—one long drone."
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LMG wrote:If more of the trickier/complex jazzers in the sixties had made records this lush and inviting, the more inventive side of jazz might have caught on.
Kenny G may never have happened.
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Re: Your top 5 Miles Davis albums (in no order)
Thought I ready had this but this has just arrived.
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Re: Your top 5 Miles Davis albums (in no order)
Since we're talking Miles:
Last week a gem called "Miles 54" was released (2 CD's/4 LP's)
Since it was 'handpicked by Qobuz' I decided to listen to it for a while in the car.
This is Miles on the brink of becoming famous with his "First Great Quintet'. After gigging with the likes of Parker, Hawkins, Gillespie etc., the 5 sessions on '54 feature Miles as a leader, accompanied by a wide array of 'sidemen': Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, Monk, Milt Jackson to name a few of the best known. Rudy van Gelder (who else?) recorded these sessions throughout 1954 for Prestige. Fantastic Music, Great Sound. I have a lot of Miles' music on CD and Vinyl, but nothing recorded before 1957 (Cookin'), so I felt this would fill a hiatus in my collection. Ordered the vinyl release straight from Craft Recordings for $100.00. Thought that was a fair price for 4 LP's, also considering its' $125.00 on Amazon and $188.00 on Discogs. However, the CD is only $22.00, which is... disappointing, for lack of a better word. Anyway, should be on my porch by Friday.
Last week a gem called "Miles 54" was released (2 CD's/4 LP's)
Since it was 'handpicked by Qobuz' I decided to listen to it for a while in the car.
This is Miles on the brink of becoming famous with his "First Great Quintet'. After gigging with the likes of Parker, Hawkins, Gillespie etc., the 5 sessions on '54 feature Miles as a leader, accompanied by a wide array of 'sidemen': Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, Monk, Milt Jackson to name a few of the best known. Rudy van Gelder (who else?) recorded these sessions throughout 1954 for Prestige. Fantastic Music, Great Sound. I have a lot of Miles' music on CD and Vinyl, but nothing recorded before 1957 (Cookin'), so I felt this would fill a hiatus in my collection. Ordered the vinyl release straight from Craft Recordings for $100.00. Thought that was a fair price for 4 LP's, also considering its' $125.00 on Amazon and $188.00 on Discogs. However, the CD is only $22.00, which is... disappointing, for lack of a better word. Anyway, should be on my porch by Friday.
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Re: Your top 5 Miles Davis albums (in no order)
Filles de Kilimanjaro
Birth of the Cool
Ascenseur pour L'echafaud
Cookin'
Relaxin'
Birth of the Cool
Ascenseur pour L'echafaud
Cookin'
Relaxin'
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Re: Your top 5 Miles Davis albums (in no order)
Ascenseur pour L'echafaud
Kind Of Blue
In A Silent Way
Jack Johnson
Circle In The Round
... are probably the ones I've played the most in the past couple of years (for what that's worth).
Kind Of Blue
In A Silent Way
Jack Johnson
Circle In The Round
... are probably the ones I've played the most in the past couple of years (for what that's worth).
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Re: Your top 5 Miles Davis albums (in no order)
KoB
BB
I don’t tend to separate the classics from the first quintet- the ‘in albums. They play through one after the other, and I couldn’t pick a favourite.
Seven steps
Probably Corner for the last pick. The big boxset is something that gets played a lot.
BB
I don’t tend to separate the classics from the first quintet- the ‘in albums. They play through one after the other, and I couldn’t pick a favourite.
Seven steps
Probably Corner for the last pick. The big boxset is something that gets played a lot.
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Re: Your top 5 Miles Davis albums (in no order)
Jack Johnson is my favourite from the electric period followed by the live Argharta from 1975.
The stuff that followed into the 80s through to his last studio album Doo-Bop recorded in 1991 is not to my taste
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The stuff that followed into the 80s through to his last studio album Doo-Bop recorded in 1991 is not to my taste
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LMG wrote:If more of the trickier/complex jazzers in the sixties had made records this lush and inviting, the more inventive side of jazz might have caught on.
Kenny G may never have happened.