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Matt ![]() Forum Admin Group ![]() ![]() Jazz Reviewer Joined: 16 Jan 2011 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 2527 |
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We do not have one on Miles I noticed.
I think we are all fans due to the variety as much as the superb quality of many of his recordings. Even within the fusion alone there is a heap of variety within the studio albums. The Hard Bop, Modal, Post Bop and even those Gil Evans string jobs.
![]() When you play his albums post your thoughts. After all he is the greatest...............after "Pops"
![]() Mile Davis is and always will be the greatest though for modern Jazz in my opinion. I bet like me that Miles Davis was the first Jazz albums you ever bought.
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Excellent idea, Matt. KOB, Round Midnight & Birth... were my first three - given to me as presents so they were my first.
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I bought not too long ago Nefertiti, to have it in physical form. It's killer; so modern, some of it sounds like any 90s/00's post bop group trying to be original.
I've yet to delve into his pre-First Quintet stuff, but yes, Davis and Coltrane were my entry to jazz. Kind of Blue and In a Silent Way, despite being worlds apart, both fascinated me, both masterpieces. And I agree, Filles is great stuff! For me that and Miles in the Sky develop the advanced ideas of Nefertiti and Sorcerer even more, adding new ideas.
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Matt ![]() Forum Admin Group ![]() ![]() Jazz Reviewer Joined: 16 Jan 2011 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 2527 |
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All those Quintet albums are great. Miles Smiles is my fave but ESP, Nerfertiti and Sorceror are close. I have Milestones going at the moment. I suppose my favourite Hard Bop album followed by Round Midnight. The actual first Miles album I bought was Bitches Brew. |
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I have many Miles albums, from his early days as a bopper to his very last recorded album. I probably have more albums by him than any other artist.
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Sean Trane ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 19 Apr 2011 Location: Brussels Status: Offline Points: 789 |
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Right now, I rangef rom Birth (still in my outgoing pile of CD) all the way until Agharta...
Once I'll have gotten rid of Birth (I need shelf space), my earliets Miles will be KoB and SoS, both from 59.
I was never really into 80's Miles, the main exception being that OST of The Hot Spot, with Taj Mahal and more
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones....
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Matt ![]() Forum Admin Group ![]() ![]() Jazz Reviewer Joined: 16 Jan 2011 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 2527 |
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![]() ![]() Giving this one a spin today.
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Matt ![]() Forum Admin Group ![]() ![]() Jazz Reviewer Joined: 16 Jan 2011 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 2527 |
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Does anybody have that massive Montreux Live set? around 20 discs if I remember right. If so what do you think? I don't have it myself. So much material.
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I do like the 'Relaxin'' Prestige one a lot, the others are great too of course, but Relaxin' gets my vote out of the four. Leaving the studio chatter in is fun
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"Cookin'""Relaxin'""Workin'""Steamin'"
These albums are known as a marathon session. It is wonderful to have produced these albums in only two days. |
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They were great and and not a dud in them . I love Walkin' but I am a sucker for a ballad sometimes with the album opening, "It Never Entered My Mind" but the other albums have some great stuff. All Great. These albums have all those early standards that he played. He did it to finish up his contract with Prestige so he could start with Columbia. Amazing the quality of the albums. There would not have been too many takes. Freshness I love.I'd rather have the odd small mistake. Anyway gives it that little bit of Live touch I suppose. Something about it. It is hard to explain exactly why but there is a difference. I know one thing though when an album is over produced it can wreck it.
Goin' for Steamin'. It has "Salt Peanuts" and my fave Monk tune "Well You Needn't. you know de de de di di di.
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One of my fav pieces from those albums - If I Were a Bell. Found a live one from the famous 61 concerts
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He's aight.
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Hit it on Five.
Saxophone Scatterbrain Blitzberg Stab them in the ears. |
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dreadpirateroberts ![]() Forum Admin Group ![]() ![]() Joined: 06 Jul 2011 Location: AU Status: Offline Points: 1836 |
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Have we mentioned 'Sketches' here? It's probably in my top three or four
Miles albums, and it's hard to narrow so many great ones down to that
number, but it's up there for me.
I know it's not always met with universal love, but it has a quality. |
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The Miles Davis bug bit me recently, Ive been listening to a couple Miles albums here and there, and currently going way back to Birth of the Cool. Ive been particularly craving more of his non-fusion albums, and yesterday decided to pick up this album, the only Second Great Quintet album I didn't have. I expected no less than absolute quality, and for $6 bucks, I couldn't pass it up.
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^ excellent album, one of his best, goes good with "Nefertitti", both are two of his best.
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I concur, and $6 that's great stuff all by itself
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As I said in another thread SoS (with P&B and Miles Ahead) is IMHO more of a Gil Evans album than a Miles album
Apparently there is another (fourth) collab called Quiet Nights, that I didn't know about), but apparently it's not as good as the other three
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones....
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