Yo Miles! Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith

Yo Miles, Jonas Hellborg, Tunnels, Richard Hallebeek, Brett Garsed

by Len Davis
December 8, 2023

Music from 2000-2005 continues. Yo Miles, Jonas Hellborg, Richard Hallebeek and Brett Garsed. Frank Gambale, Michael Brecker and Gary Husband. Playlist Yo Miles “Jabali Pt 1" from Sky Garden (Cuneiform) 00:00 Jonas Hellborg “Kidogo" from Octave of The Holy Innocents (Bardo) 07:10/li> Tunnels “The Syzygy Incident" from The Art OfLiving Dangerously (BuckyBall) 14:31 Richard Halebeek “Good Food" from RHP (Self Produced)21:49 Brett Garsed “Breath" from Big Sky (Self Produced) 29:05 Frank Gambale “Foreign Country" from Raison D'etre (Wombat) ...

Yo Miles!, Bob Berg, Mike Stern, ARC Trio

by Len Davis
March 26, 2023

Yo Miles! fromYo, Miles! Lightning, Jack DeJohnette, Bob Berg, Mike Stern, ARCeology-Music of MSM Schmidt, with Jimmy Haslip, Scott Kinsey and Gergo Borlai. Playlist Yo Miles ! Henry Kaiser and Waded Leo Smith “Thunder & Lightning" from Lightning (Self Produced) 00:00 Jack DeJohnette “Jack In" from Parallel Realities (MCA) 09:47 Bob Berg “Silverado" from Back Roads (Denon) 19:26 MSM Schmidt “Life" from Life (Laika) 20:16 ARCtrio “Qin Shi" from ARCeology-The Music of MSM Schmidt (Blue Canoe)39:03 Mike Stern-Jeff ...

Adam Holzman, Yo Miles, Cameron Graves and Richard Hallebeek

by Len Davis
April 3, 2022

Yo Miles! Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith, Adam Holzman, Cameron Graves and Trio Grande.Playlist Yo Miles! Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith"Cozy Pete" from Lightning (Self Produced) 00:00 Adam Holzman “Maze" from The Last Gig (Big Fun Productions) 06:45 Greg Osby “Man Talk" from Man Talk For Moderns (Blue Note) 13:32 Cameron Graves “Sacred Sphere" from Seven (Challenge) 20:33 Trio Grande “Gocta" from Trio Grande (Whirlwind) 27:25 Cindy Blackman Santana “Velocity" from Give The Drummer Some (Copperline ...

Lee Puckett bassist from Kentucky. Yellow Jackets, Dwiki Dharmawan and Yo Miles with Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith

by Len Davis
December 26, 2021

New music from bassist Lee Puckett, Yellow Jackets and Dwiki Dharmawan featuring Jimmy Haslip, plus Yo Miles! with Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith. Playlist Lee Puckett “Brain Tweezer" from Lost Horizon (Self Produced) 00:00 Yellow Jackets “I Wonder" from Lifecycle (Heads Up) 08:44 Dharmawan"Whale Dance" from So far So Close (Moonjune) 17:23 Jing Chi “The Hong Kong Incident" from Jing Chi Live (Tone Centre) 26:10 Yo Miles! Henry Kaiser Wadada Leo Smith “Agharta Prelude" from Yo Miles ...

Yo Miles! Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith: Upriver

by Rex Butters
July 4, 2005

Wadada Leo Smith and Henry Kaiser's Yo Miles! band completes a trilogy with the release of Up River, their latest double-disc dive into the exotic and sensual world of Miles Davis's first electric period, circa 1969-75. Once again they take some of the fiercest and most revolutionary music of the 20th Century and manage to reimagine it while remaining faithful to the earth-rending originals. And, speaking of originals, as with the past collections, they go beyond tribute band status to ...

Yo Miles! Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith: Upriver

by Jerry D'Souza
March 11, 2005

Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith are back with a third double helping of their view of the music of Miles Davis, bringing along a couple of their own tunes. Once again it is time to celebrate the music and the perspective they bring to it.

Smith and Kaiser head Yo Miles!, the band that transforms Davis' music. Smith is adventurous, which in itself states the obvious, but he's marked by his ability to change colour and shape, ...

Yo Miles! Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith: Upriver

by John Kelman
February 22, 2005

Following their highly-acclaimed second Yo Miles! release, Sky Garden (Cuneiform, 2004), trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and guitarist Henry Kaiser return for a third time to the wellspring of Miles Davis' electric period of '69-75. Like Sky Garden , Upriver sports cleaner lines and a less dense approach than their first collaboration, Yo Miles! (Shanachie, 1998), but stylistically it sits somewhere between the two, blending the bold assertion of the first release with exploration of the ambient space that was so ...

A "Yo Miles!" (Henry Kaiser and Wadada Leo Smith) Two-Fer! - Shinjuku and Lightning (2010)

Source: Something Else!
March 10, 2011

By S. Victor Aaron Since very early on we've eagerly pounced on records that re-image that dense, impenetrable period of Miles Davis between about 1969 and 1975 when he first defined fusion jazz and then kept redefining it again and again. This is music that doesn't come easily to most people; they must go to it, get inside of it and slather themselves with it. Even then, many folks might not “get it." I'd admit that there's a few cuts ...
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