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Miles Davis: At Newport 1958
by Jim Santella
This is a different Miles Davis. He's playing much better than he had when bebop was in its infancy. Accuracy and tone had always meant a lot to the trumpeter, and he worked hard to get it done just right. During the fifties, he kept getting better and better. Here, he's using both Harmon mute and ...
Miles Davis: Live At The Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It's About That Time
by Jim Santella
“Directions" begins each of these sets, which reflect the change in direction that Miles Davis was pursuing with his landmark albums that had already been recorded in the late 1960s. Bitches Brew had not yet been released, when Davis and his band opened for The Steve Miller Blues Band and Neil Young & Crazy Horse in ...
Miles Davis: Live at Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It's About That Time
by Michael Fortuna
The crowd at the Fillmore East may have been puzzled after trumpeter Miles Davis finished his sets at the New York concert hall in March 1970. At the time, the audience was hearing something revolutionary and controversial pumping out of the loudspeakers.Little did they know that Davis was about to unleash the electric jazz/rock ...
Miles Davis: The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions
by Jim Santella
Three previously unissued performances and six months of Miles Davis' recording activity mark this 3-CD set as something special. This was a transitional time for the bandleader. It marked the beginning of a fusion. The package documents this period very well. Davis wanted a new sound. With several keyboards and significant changes in personnel, he got ...
Miles Davis: The Essential Miles Davis
by Todd S. Jenkins
There can't be too many musical tasks as daunting as trying to trim Miles Davis' prodigious output down into two discs worth of “essentials". No matter how much time and thought went into this amazing package, arguments are sure to ensue for years to come. That said, reissue producers Michael Cuscuna and Bob Belden have done ...
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
by Michael Fortuna
As jazz's bebop movement flourished during the late 1940s with its fast-paced rhythms from virtuosos like trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and saxophonist Charlie Parker, trumpeter Miles Davis headed off in a new direction. Taking cues from the innovations learned in Parker's group, Davis, along with his nonet, recorded 12 songs in a two-year span that, ...
Miles Davis: The Essential Miles Davis
by Michael Fortuna
It is possible to boil a musician's extensive career down into two CDs.This year, in honor of what would have been trumpeter Miles Davis' 75th birthday, Columbia/Legacy Recordings has compiled The Essential Miles Davis, a collection that spans nearly four decades of Davis' eclectic career.From “So What" to “Miles Runs the Voodoo ...
Miles Davis: Big Fun
by Todd S. Jenkins
One of the less-remembered, underappreciated releases in Miles’ discography, revamped for the new century and ready to open some ears. A few months after the Bitches Brew sessions that broke jazz-rock out like Phoenix from the flames, Miles Davis returned to the Columbia recording studios with the intent to push his music in yet another startling ...
Miles Davis: Jazz at the Plaza
by AAJ Staff
Partying at the Plaza! That’s what the Miles Davis Sextet was doing in the late summer of 1958--celebrating the success, popularity, and ubiquity of Jazz music. This set captures the exuberance and creativity of one of Jazz’s great outfits during this highpoint for improvised music. On this set, the Miles Davis Sextet ...
Miles Davis: The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions
by Todd S. Jenkins
Another Miles classic re-excavated with grand results. In A Silent Way was an astonishing step further towards a fusion of jazz and rock for Miles Davis, and for jazz in general, when it was released in 1969. The acoustic instruments of Davis, Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland and Tony Williams were combined with John McLaughlin’s electric guitar, ...
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