Miles Davis

[WARF]

The weather sucks and it's freezing today!

It's time to listen to the Miles Davis masterpiece!

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[FORD]

I've never been a big jazz fan, but here's some Miles Davis that even a rocker can appreciate. Damn shame that these two never officially recorded together......


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_ajpsHxTVg

[FORD]

And this was never officially released either, unfortunately. (Unless Prince has since released it on his own. Haven't kept up with his stuff lately)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO1FTcS_eeI

[jhale667]

Actually, I've developed a whole new respect for Miles from believe it or not, watching "Homeland" on Showtime. The main character is a huge Miles fan, and they use his music almost every episode...and I've liked everything I've heard!

[Coyote]

First jazz solo I ever had to learn was this one...



The phrasing's a bitch to duplicate on a guitar, though...

[ThrillsNSpills]

Burn, from amnesty international

[Hardrock69]

At first I was way into the shredders, like Parker, Trane, etc.

But then I recognized the genius in Miles' minimalist approach.

And I be digging Bitches Brew all the time. I have half-a-dozen or so DVDs of shows he did on the European continent from that time frame.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Acy8Z9jkw

Some of the shows on this tour, Herbie Hancock get so out there that it seems like he is tripping on acid. Occasionally that shit caused Miles to be pretty pissed off at him, lol.


Great post man!

[Hardrock69]

Miles at Isle Of Wight - 1970....."Call It Anything".


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0kTOVod0LI

[Hardrock69]

Wow. Press play on all the players in this thread at once. Sounds like a trip!!!!

[chefcraig]

As much as I adore Mile's Kind Of Blue, I found something in late 2011 that comes damned close. The album is a live recording by the second great quintet, which consisted of Davis-trumpet, Wayne Shorter-tenor sax, Herbie Hancock-piano, Ron Carter-bass, and Tony Williams-drums (hell, Williams was still a teenager when he joined, yet Davis was most impressed by the kid's playing and hired him). The title is Miles Davis Quintet Live in Europe 1967, which is part of Legacy Recordings Best of Bootleg Series, Vol. 1.

This is a somewhat more direct and powerful group, compared to the more restrained sounds of the first band which sometimes featured the modal playing of keyboardist Bill Evans (normally, Red Garland handled the keys) and John Coltrane on sax. The interplay between Hancock and the other players is at times dizzying, and the overall sound isn't too bad for a collection of tracks recorded at various dance halls and open air festivals.

The album is available in two versions: A lavish 3CD set with DVD (which to me, appeared a bit too daunting), as well as a more streamlined (and more readily affordable) single CD offering. Highly recommended.


http://img1.imagehousing.com/80/3332eaa9654c5c9f4ee80348907c89ed.jpg (http://www.imagehousing.com/image/1095663)

[Hardrock69]

That is the band I REALLY dig.....though I dig Jack DeJohnette's playing as well.

Talk about a monster motherfucking lineup. This is the sorta shit I listen to when I want to hear some shit I could never play, lol.


Second great quintet (1964–68)

By the time of E.S.P. (1965), Davis's lineup consisted of Wayne Shorter (saxophone), Herbie Hancock (piano), Ron Carter (bass), and Tony Williams (drums). The last of his acoustic bands, this group is often referred to as the "second great quintet".

A two-night Chicago performance in late 1965 is captured on The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965, released in 1995. Unlike their studio albums, the live engagement shows the group still playing primarily standards and bebop tunes. It is reasonable to point out, though, that while some of the titles remain the same as the tunes employed by the 1950s quintet, the speed and distance of departure from the framework of the standards bears no comparison. It could even be said that the listening experience to these standards as live performances is as much of a radical take on the jazz of the time as the new compositions of the studio albums listed below.

The recording of Live at the Plugged Nickel was not issued anywhere in the 1960s, first appearing as a Japan-only partial issue in the late 1970s, then as a double-LP in the U.S. and Europe in 1982. It was followed by a series of studio recordings: Miles Smiles (1966), Sorcerer (1967), Nefertiti (1967), Miles in the Sky (1968), and Filles de Kilimanjaro (1968). The quintet's approach to improvisation came to be known as "time no changes" or "freebop," because they abandoned the more conventional chord-change-based approach of bebop for a modal approach. Through Nefertiti, the studio recordings consisted primarily of originals composed by Shorter, with occasional compositions by the other sidemen. In 1967, the group began to play their live concerts in continuous sets, each tune flowing into the next, with only the melody indicating any sort of demarcation. Davis's bands would continue to perform in this way until his retirement in 1975.

Miles in the Sky and Filles de Kilimanjaro, on which electric bass, electric piano, and electric guitar were tentatively introduced on some tracks, pointed the way to the subsequent fusion phase of Davis's career. Davis also began experimenting with more rock-oriented rhythms on these records. By the time the second half of Filles de Kilimanjaro had been recorded, bassist Dave Holland and pianist Chick Corea had replaced Carter and Hancock in the working band, though both Carter and Hancock would occasionally contribute to future recording sessions. Davis soon began to take over the compositional duties of his sidemen.

[Hardrock69]

Here Craig:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER6yqzdyk78


Goddam...Wayne Shorter tears it up!!!

Hell...they all do! :hee:

[Kristy]

I've never been a big jazz fan, but here's some Miles Davis that even a rocker can appreciate. Damn shame that these two never officially recorded together...

even though Miles was at the funeral of Hendrix, Miles did state publicly that he could appreciate the man but could not stand his music.

[Hardrock69]

If somebody tried to play this shit 500 years ago in the Catholic Empire, these guys woulda been burned at the stake....

[Hardrock69]

It is possible it was due to Hendrix though that Miles tried playing through a wah pedal when he went electric...

Goddam...still listening to this.....at 25 minutes in they start hauling ass with some shit that would make speed-metal bands seem slow...

[Kristy]

No you idiot, it was possible due to the fact that many traditional jazz musicians had little regard for rock 'n' roll.

[chefcraig]

Here Craig...
Goddam...Wayne Shorter tears it up!!!

Hell...they all do! :hee:

Thanks, friend. Indeed, this is the DVD included on the extended (and fairly expensive) 3 CD/DVD set (and also was included in an exhaustive 2009 70 CD collection of Davis' music). The live package includes entire shows recorded in Belgium, Denmark and France, while the DVD comes from shows in Germany & Sweden. These all clock in at over 60 minutes each, so you end up with a staggering 4 hours of live performance. What is most interesting that while the set lists are pretty much the same at each gig, the actual performance (from tempos to the soloing) varies greatly from show to show.

It's just a great deal of musical information to take in at one, let alone several sittings.

[Kristy]

...and then I played this on such a beautiful Friday morning

http://zenekucko.ucoz.com/_bl/62/07110494.jpg

Because I'm cool unlike say, some of you cretins who thinks dog and pony acts like Styx are cool.

[Kristy]

Then I played this:

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/53316357/Bass+on+Top+Paul20ChambersBAss20On20Top.jpg

Which inevitably led me to this:
http://israbox.com/uploads/posts/2008-11/1227866896_stanley-clarke-the-toys-of-men-2007.jpg

Gawd, I'm so fucking cool it hurts.

[jhale667]

It is possible it was due to Hendrix though that Miles tried playing through a wah pedal when he went electric...



I remember reading a Mike Stern interview where he said Miles would come up to him while he was soloing and say "Fuck bebop - play Hendrix". :cool:

[Kristy]

As much as I adore Mile's Kind Of Blue, I found something in late 2011 that comes damned close. The album is a live recording by the second great quintet, which consisted of Davis-trumpet, Wayne Shorter-tenor sax, Herbie Hancock-piano, Ron Carter-bass, and Tony Williams-drums (hell, Williams was still a teenager when he joined, yet Davis was most impressed by the kid's playing and hired him). The title is Miles Davis Quintet Live in Europe 1967, which is part of Legacy Recordings Best of Bootleg Series, Vol. 1.

This is a somewhat more direct and powerful group, compared to the more restrained sounds of the first band which sometimes featured the modal playing of keyboardist Bill Evans (normally, Red Garland handled the keys) and John Coltrane on sax. The interplay between Hancock and the other players is at times dizzying, and the overall sound isn't too bad for a collection of tracks recorded at various dance halls and open air festivals.

The album is available in two versions: A lavish 3CD set with DVD (which to me, appeared a bit too daunting), as well as a more streamlined (and more readily affordable) single CD offering. Highly recommended.


http://img1.imagehousing.com/80/3332eaa9654c5c9f4ee80348907c89ed.jpg (http://www.imagehousing.com/image/1095663)


You know what!? I just recently bought this and it's fucking incredible! Miles, Shorter and Hancock never played this tight and absolute brilliant together like they did here. Just knowing that makes me cool, huh?

[Coyote]

No you idiot, it was possible due to the fact that many traditional jazz musicians had little regard for rock 'n' roll.

They still don't...

[Kristy]

Which is a cool thing.

[ELVIS]

Because I'm cool...

Empty glass, depressed and angry does not equal cool even with a Miles Davis soundtrack...

[Coyote]

Which is a douchebag thing.

Fixed.

[chefcraig]

Empty glass, depressed and angry does not equal cool even with a Miles Davis soundtrack...

Oh, I dunno...Empty Glass and that duo album with Ronnie Lane are about the only Townshend solo albums I can listen to all the way through...