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Miles Davis : Features : One Final Note

By Tom Djll March 2005 THE GUMSHOEFrom our Department of Proud Confessions: I’m just not OCD enough to be qualified to write a piece about bootleg music releases. In the course of my most recent research into electric-era Miles Davis bootlegs, I felt like I’d walked straight into a funhouse-mirror of fandom, reflecting dazed, semi-crazed and often distorted images of…uhhhh… No sales, trade only, European re-release or Japanese import, Region 1 or NTSC format, board-mix or audience recording, discography by session or by release???

Where am I? Was that all a bad trip? So I may not be a Howard Hughes-in-training, but I am the nostalgic type. When the package arrived from Japan, it glowed with the aura of contraband—feverishly my fingers fumbled with the wrapping—I tore it open and pulled out—a double CD-R! THE CRITIC“That was a transitional music.” Miles Davis - Another Unity. Miles Davis. ROIO Of The Week : Wall To Wall Tribute to Miles Davis 2001. JJA Library. Guitarist Vernon Reid, his long dreadlocks shaking around his animated face, is holding forth on Broadway in front of Symphony Space on New York City's Upper West Side.

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He's stomping his feet for emphasis as he expounds on -- favorite subject for an audience of three jazz journalists. "Miles Davis put it out there like no one else, man. Every musician has -- style that they don't grow beyond. Some grow more than others, like Ellington, but Miles, man, his growth just went on forever. " It's appropriate that his high-speed monologue is delivered over the sound of Miles Davis himself, being piped out into the midnight air at the tail-end of -- 12-hour marathon tribute to the trumpeter and composer who was born 75 years ago this month. The first invention was -- reaction against the intensity and harmonic limitations of bebop, which Davis had played alongside saxophonist Charlie Parker for two years.

Davis himself never expanded on those nonet experimentations. Miles Davis - Heavy Metal. Miles Davis - AGHARTA with a Bose super woofer 5 series 2. Some Thoughts About Miles Davis' Pangaea. Courtesy of one dedicated Miles Davis fan, we have the entirety of the 1975 acid-funk album Pangaea available to listen.

Some Thoughts About Miles Davis' Pangaea

You won't have to touch anything, since all the Youtube segments are on a running playlist. Just hit play and enjoy the brilliant music. Pangaea is the final fusion album from Miles Davis, the second in a stunning double bill in Osaka, Japan, on February 1, 1975. The afternoon show was recorded for the Agharta album, and the evening show became Pangaea. Shortly thereafter, Miles finally retreated from performing music. I'm a great fan of Miles' 1973-75 acid-funk band, which was captured on the 1974 studio LP Get Up With It, and three live LP's, Dark Magus, Agharta, and Pangaea. It's stunning when you realize that Miles Davis hurled out so many double-LP's, and in such a short period of time. The twin shows Agharta and Pangaea represent the final peak of that great and stunning era, the grand summary of everything Miles Davis had furiously sought after. Miles Davis - AGHARTA (Live, released in 1975)

THE ELECTRIC MILE. Unsung Guitar Genius Pete Cosey Dead at 68. Pete Cosey: Interviews: The Last Miles: The Music Of Miles Davis 1980 - 1991: A book by George Cole. If there was any justice in this world, guitarist Pete Cosey would be as well known as many of his contemporaries.

Pete Cosey: Interviews: The Last Miles: The Music Of Miles Davis 1980 - 1991: A book by George Cole

His name should be up there with other giants like Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy. Pete was born in Chicago on 9 October 1943. An only child, Pete hails from a musical family (his mother and father wrote for Louis Jordan, and Eddie "Cleanhead" Vincent, and his father played with Sidney Bechet and Josephine Baker). As a child, Pete learnt to play the violin, accordion and piano, as well as sing in the choir (he also plays drums, percussion and synthesiser).

But it is as a guitar player that Pete is best known. His career includes being a session player for Chess Records, which saw him playing with artists such as Etta James, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Chuck Berry. In this exclusive interview with TheLastMiles.com, Pete talks about playing, his musical influences, being a member of the Miles Davis band and the struggles he faced when Miles's band finally broke up.

BLACK SATIN+AGHARTA By BURNT SUGAR ARKESTRA,Paris 2011. Bitches Brew Revisited by Olivier Martin. Miles Davis. Free Streaming Live Music, Vintage Tees, retro t-shirts, concert posters, live concert, vintage rock tshirts, concert vault, Posters, rock photos and more.