Jazz Articles about Yo Miles! Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith

Yo Miles! Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith: Upriver

by James Taylor
February 21, 2005

Upriver , the third double-disc offering from guitarist Henry Kaiser and electrified trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith's Yo Miles! project, features the duo and their ever-changing band taking on Miles Davis' most adventurous tunes: “Bitches Brew,"? “Yesterfunk,"? “Black Satin,"? and a medley of other on the corner jams. The tunes collected on Upriver are hardly covers in any sense; instead, Smith, Kaiser & Co. use Davis' groove-heavy compositions merely as a framework, a starting point from whence they ...