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Miles Davis: The Complete Recordings 1945-1960 (34 CD + 1 CDRom)

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 12, 2012

Alzi la mano chi pensa che sarebbe stato possibile riconoscere il genio del divino trombettista Miles Davis già dalle sue prime registrazioni di fine aprile 1945 con il gruppo di Herbie Fields e l'oscuro cantante Rubberlegs Williams. Il cantante era ruvido e anche non particolarmente intonato, eppure in quel sestetto erano presenti due musicisti piuttosto noti come Leonard Gaskin al basso e Al Casey alla chitarra. Miles era impegnato più a fare controcanti che non a prendere assoli veri e ...

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Miles Davis with John Coltrane: The Legendary 1960 European Tour (Box 3 CD)

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 12, 2012

Fra la fine di marzo e gli inizi di aprile del 1960 il quintetto di Miles Davis era in Europa per un tour che segnava l'ultimo atto della collaborazione del trombettista con il saxofonista John Coltrane, stella nascente del firmamento jazzistico dell'epoca immediatamente successiva. Fu un tour che suscitò parecchio scalpore fra il pubblico e la critica, proprio per la modernità dell'approccio di Coltrane, ormai pronto a spiccare il volo con i suoi lunghi assoli che esploravano le armonie dentro ...

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Multiple Reviews

Miles Davis: 1986-1991 The Warner Years

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
January 18, 2012

Warner Bros. was trumpeter Miles Davis's last record company, and the five years covered by the five-disc collection entitled 1986-1991 The Warner Years, pale in comparison to the 30-year, 70-disc box set of Davis' complete recordings for Columbia Records, released in 2009. So the quantity is far lower: how does the quality compare?Davis' detractors typically divide his output into the early, good years and the late, bad years: at some point, they say, Davis simply went too far. ...

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Product Spotlight

Miles Davis Trumpet High Performance In-Ear Headphones

by John Kelman
December 24, 2011

When Monster Cable launched the Miles Davis Tribute In-Ear Headphones in 2009, it redefined just how good a set of in-ear buds could sound...and how comfortable they could be. Still, priced at nearly $500 US, the product was aimed at a very specific demographic, a target made even clearer by the limited edition nature of its launch; only a certain number of the headphones were manufactured, lending them an exclusivity to tie into other products aimed at a high-end market, ...

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Extended Analysis

Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1967 - The Bootleg Series Volume 1

by Kevin Davis
December 3, 2011

Miles Davis Quintet Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 Legacy Recordings 2011 The most--perhaps only--frustrating thing about this first installment in what trumpeter Miles Davis completists can only hope ends up being an exhaustive series of archival releases, is the 44 years it took Columbia/Legacy to release it. Though offbeat catalog oddity Miles in Berlin (Columbia, 1965) managed to snap what Japanese jazz buffs dubbed Davis' “Gold Quintet" (featuring tenor saxophonist ...

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Album Review

Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Volume 1

Read "Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Volume 1" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
November 27, 2011

Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 compiles an enormous amount of simply incredible music: three CDs and one DVD spanning five European performances that the trumpeter recorded in late 1967 with Wayne Shorter (saxophone), Herbie Hancock (piano), Ron Carter (bass) and Tony Williams (drums)--what was known, even then, as Davis' second great quintet--as part of a “Newport Jazz Festival in Europe" tour produced by George Wein. (Most of the concert footage in Clint Eastwood's ...

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The Miles Davis Quintet: Live In Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 21, 2011

Questo cofanetto comprende 3 CD e un DVD e presenta, per la prima volta ufficialmente, le registrazioni di cinque date del tour europeo dell'autunno 1967 del quintetto di Miles Davis. Buona parte del materiale qui proposto era già nota ai super collezionisti attraverso lo scambio di preziose registrazioni pirata. Evidentemente, la Sony Legacy, con grande ironia, ha deciso di evocare quello spirito sacrilego, battezzando Bootleg Series la collana di cui questo cofanetto rappresenta il primo volume. I concerti sono qualitativamente ...