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Miles Davis
by Tim Kirker
1926 - 1991The musical legacy of Miles Davis seems too huge for one man. Especially since he was a vital part of nearly every important development of innovation and style in jazz after the Second World War. His protean approach put him at the forefront of bebop, cool, modal, hard bop, and fusion. From ...
Miles Davis: Miles in Tokyo
by Germein Linares
Recorded in '64, Miles in Tokyo finds the iconic Miles Davis performing with his almost-second great quintet. Tenor saxophonist Sam Rivers, a more accomplished and daring experimentalist than his predecessor, George Coleman, joined the group after a fellow Bostonian, drummer Tony Williams, recommended him to Davis. There are times on this recording when one might understand ...
Miles Davis: Seven Steps to Heaven
by George Harris
It's easy to pigeonhole this '63 Miles Davis recording as a “transition" period between his classic quintets, but one thing is quite clear: Miles was always in transition. Each Davis band was going through a musical or personnel metamorphosis, so we might as well simply take the music on its own terms and forget about the ...
Miles Davis: 'Round About Midnight (Legacy Edition)
by Jim Santella
Music this good requires reissue and invites special packaging. Most of the material on the second disc of the Legacy Edition of 'Round About Midnight, however, has never been released before. So, we are met with pleasant surprises along with a reissue of some of Miles Davis' greatest music. In all, this double CD brings us ...
And Miles to Go Before We Sleep
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
Remember back to those halcyon days of February, kids? The world seemed a simpler, rounder place in which to live. Disney-esque choirs of singing cartoon mice heralded even our most mundane daily routines, the air smelled of fresh lilacs, we all walked around in a dreamlike haze where our feet barely touched the ground, and I ...
Miles Davis: The Complete Live at The Plugged Nickel
by C. Michael Bailey
Temperamental, passionate, standoffish, reticent... all of these adjectives describe the Miles Davis of the mid-1950s on. Like Beethoven, Davis considered himself an artist to be accepted on his own terms and a servant to no one. This did not endear Davis to his audiences, but that was no matter. Forget that Miles Davis was not the ...
Miles Davis: 'Round About Midnight (Legacy Edition)
by John Kelman
Given Legacy's ongoing efforts to package and reissue thirty years' worth of Miles Davis material, one has to wonder at the audacity of its latest addition to seemingly endless variations on his extensive catalogue, the Legacy Edition of 'Round About Midnight. Certainly the material on disc one--which includes Miles' entire '57 debut for the label, along ...
Miles Davis: Year-Long Celebration of Five Decades and Many Miles
by Chris M. Slawecki
On October 27, 1955, Miles Davis signed with Columbia Records, where the mercurial trumpeter, composer, bandleader and conceptualist remained through most of his career. After 1955, Davis recorded and released nearly all of his greatest music through Columbia. Now part of Sony / Legacy, the label has embarked on a year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary ...
Miles Davis: My Funny Valentine
by George Harris
This justifiably famous 1964 concert by Miles Davis' quintet at the Lincoln Center has been released in many incarnations. Originally it appeared as two single LPs, one consisting of the ballads of the evening, the other including all of the burners; it has also been released as part of last year's seven-CD set Seven Steps, and ...
Miles Davis: Miles Davis: Round About Midnight (Legacy Edition)
by Doug Collette
Miles DavisRound About MidnightColumbia/Legacy2005 (1956)The detail to which Sony Music's Miles Davis reissue series lends itself is a pretty good example of how far ahead of his time the trumpeter/bandleader actually was. Packages such as this Legacy Edition of Round About Midnight suggest we are just beginning to ...
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