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Miles Smiles
Miles Davis Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000DCH1 Release Date: 1998-10-13 |
Tracks:
- Orbits
- Circle
- Footprints
- Dolores
- Freedom Jazz Dance
- Gingerbread Boy
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The most satisfying sort of audacity was the rule with Miles Davis's second great quintet. One of six studio albums cut by the group between 1965 and 1968, Miles Smiles finds them executing three Wayne Shorter compositions and one by the leader, along with Eddie Harris's "Freedom Jazz Dance," former Davis cohort Jimmy Cobb's "Gingerbread Boy," and the usual mix of finesse and barreling momentum. Even when nodding toward the then-burgeoning hard-bop movement on the Harris piece, the group makes its own mark in a hundred different ways, from Herbie Hancock's spare touch to the thoroughly declarative solo Davis lays down. It's hard to pick the most exceptional cut on such a top-flight disc, but certainly Shorter's deceptively simple "Orbits" and "Footprints" deserve mention; on the former, the players take turns stating the melody and then rumbling over it. The latter's echoes of "Caravan" make way for an improv performance that not only hangs tough in itself, but seems to have provided a template for the entire early career of Wynton Marsalis. --Rickey WrightCustomer Reviews:
Miles Away.......2007-03-31
Miles' best 60's effort.......2006-12-13
More In Common With Ornette Coleman's "Shape of Jazz to Come" Than Kind of Blue.......2006-11-15
The very first track on this disc, Orbits, has more in common with Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come than anything Miles did previously. It actually sounds like Ornette's music being played by much more highly skilled musicians.
All of the tracks are wonderful but Circle - it is just exquisite. Miles's phrasing, the lyrical sound he brings to his horn with the Harmon mute - it is the most expressive sound I have ever heard come from a horn.
If you are already a Miles fan, you must have this disc, you will not be disappointed. If you are just getting into Miles then I would start with Kind of Blue, maybe My Funny Valentine, Four and More, then ESP, and then Miles Smiles.
Get your kicks in '66.......2006-07-23
The year 1965 is a howling blank as far as Miles Davis' development goes. Miles Davis discovered Wayne Shorter in late 1964, recorded the album E.S.P. with his new quintet in January 1965, and promptly disappeared from the world until Christmas. Miles had severe health problems, including a buildup of material on his hip joints, and a new addiction to cocaine.
On his return, Miles recorded the famous "Plugged Nickel" sessions, which for the first time showed him trying to break the boundaries of bebop. The band became freer; a less popular musician would have been labelled "avant-garde".
The rhythm section became fluid - Tony Williams could change from a 3/4 beat to a 4/4 and a 5/4, toy around with 6/8 and then 2/4, before layering a 3/4 beat on TOP of a 4/4! Herbie's comping is a quantum leap for jazz piano, playing "chords" that hang suspended in space, like a dandelion seed refusing to land. Meanwhile, Wayne Shorter and Miles play with a suspension of chord structure and a much freer atttitude to rhythm and phrasing.
The "Second Great Quintet" entered the studios in 1966 and recorded Miles Smiles. The performances are near-perfect, a sample of the peak of acoustic jazz as it was in its dying days.
Listen to the reinvention of the tune "Caravan" in "Footprints", a Shorter tune with a memorable bass line. Listen to the freedom of Miles' soloing in "Circle" (a.k.a. "Drad Dog"), and Herbie Hancock's classical lines in the same piece. Listen to the startling Wayne Shorter solo in "Freedom Jazz Dance", with its trademark howling phrases.
This is an album that is a little hard to take for a newcomer. But if you liked "Kind of Blue", and want to see Miles Davis' greatest achievement of the 1960s, get this album!
Classic.......2006-06-05
Just buy this album, it is classic.
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Handel: The Masterworks (Box Set)
Manufacturer: Brilliant Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00062FLI8 Release Date: 2004-11-30 |
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Smiles for Miles
Tino Gonzales Manufacturer: Horseplay Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000006EQ6 Release Date: 1998-02-17 |
Tracks:
- Funky & Halstead
- One More Mile
- Body & Fender Man
- Young Thing
- The Thrill Is Gone
- Smiles For Miles
- Big Blues Man
- Golden Light
- What's Goin' On
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Cd, and you must see him live!!!!.......1999-08-08
THE BEST.......1999-08-01
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Miles Smiles
Miles Davis Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00004SGNP Release Date: 2000-04-04 |
Tracks:
- Orbits
- Circle
- Footprints
- Dolores
- Freedom Jazz Dance
- Gingerbread Boy
Amazon.com
The most satisfying sort of audacity was the rule with Miles Davis's second great quintet. One of six studio albums cut by the group between 1965 and 1968, Miles Smiles finds them executing three Wayne Shorter compositions and one by the leader, along with Eddie Harris's "Freedom Jazz Dance," former Davis cohort Jimmy Cobb's "Gingerbread Boy," and the usual mix of finesse and barreling momentum. Even when nodding toward the then-burgeoning hard-bop movement on the Harris piece, the group makes its own mark in a hundred different ways, from Herbie Hancock's spare touch to the thoroughly declarative solo Davis lays down. It's hard to pick the most exceptional cut on such a top-flight disc, but certainly Shorter's deceptively simple "Orbits" and "Footprints" deserve mention; on the former, the players take turns stating the melody and then rumbling over it. The latter's echoes of "Caravan" make way for an improv performance that not only hangs tough in itself, but seems to have provided a template for the entire early career of Wynton Marsalis. --Rickey WrightCustomer Reviews:
Miles Away.......2007-03-31
Miles' best 60's effort.......2006-12-13
More In Common With Ornette Coleman's "Shape of Jazz to Come" Than Kind of Blue.......2006-11-15
The very first track on this disc, Orbits, has more in common with Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come than anything Miles did previously. It actually sounds like Ornette's music being played by much more highly skilled musicians.
All of the tracks are wonderful but Circle - it is just exquisite. Miles's phrasing, the lyrical sound he brings to his horn with the Harmon mute - it is the most expressive sound I have ever heard come from a horn.
If you are already a Miles fan, you must have this disc, you will not be disappointed. If you are just getting into Miles then I would start with Kind of Blue, maybe My Funny Valentine, Four and More, then ESP, and then Miles Smiles.
Get your kicks in '66.......2006-07-23
The year 1965 is a howling blank as far as Miles Davis' development goes. Miles Davis discovered Wayne Shorter in late 1964, recorded the album E.S.P. with his new quintet in January 1965, and promptly disappeared from the world until Christmas. Miles had severe health problems, including a buildup of material on his hip joints, and a new addiction to cocaine.
On his return, Miles recorded the famous "Plugged Nickel" sessions, which for the first time showed him trying to break the boundaries of bebop. The band became freer; a less popular musician would have been labelled "avant-garde".
The rhythm section became fluid - Tony Williams could change from a 3/4 beat to a 4/4 and a 5/4, toy around with 6/8 and then 2/4, before layering a 3/4 beat on TOP of a 4/4! Herbie's comping is a quantum leap for jazz piano, playing "chords" that hang suspended in space, like a dandelion seed refusing to land. Meanwhile, Wayne Shorter and Miles play with a suspension of chord structure and a much freer atttitude to rhythm and phrasing.
The "Second Great Quintet" entered the studios in 1966 and recorded Miles Smiles. The performances are near-perfect, a sample of the peak of acoustic jazz as it was in its dying days.
Listen to the reinvention of the tune "Caravan" in "Footprints", a Shorter tune with a memorable bass line. Listen to the freedom of Miles' soloing in "Circle" (a.k.a. "Drad Dog"), and Herbie Hancock's classical lines in the same piece. Listen to the startling Wayne Shorter solo in "Freedom Jazz Dance", with its trademark howling phrases.
This is an album that is a little hard to take for a newcomer. But if you liked "Kind of Blue", and want to see Miles Davis' greatest achievement of the 1960s, get this album!
Classic.......2006-06-05
Just buy this album, it is classic.
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Miles Smiles
Miles Davis Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000HBK1XS Release Date: 2006-10-30 |
Tracks:
- Orbits
- Circle
- Footprints
- Dolores
- Freedom Jazz Dance
- Gingerbread Boy
Album Description
Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Sony. 2006.Album Details
Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.
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New Smiles & Traveled Miles
Kei Akagi Manufacturer: Groove Note Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00004UEQD Release Date: 2000-08-08 |
Tracks:
- Traveled Miles
- Petit Machins
- Love For Sale
- Milestones (1947)
- Milestones (1955)
- Stella By Starlight
- The Sorcerer
- I Thought About You
- Crosslinks
- Yesterdreams
- New Smiles
- Mr. Pastorius
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Miles Smiles
Miles Davis Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000286R Release Date: 1992-02-25 |
Tracks:
- Orbits
- Circle
- Footprints
- Dolores
- Freedom Jazz Dance
- Gingerbread Boy
Amazon.com
The most satisfying sort of audacity was the rule with Miles Davis's second great quintet. One of six studio albums cut by the group between 1965 and 1968, Miles Smiles finds them executing three Wayne Shorter compositions and one by the leader, along with Eddie Harris's "Freedom Jazz Dance," former Davis cohort Jimmy Cobb's "Gingerbread Boy," and the usual mix of finesse and barreling momentum. Even when nodding toward the then-burgeoning hard-bop movement on the Harris piece, the group makes its own mark in a hundred different ways, from Herbie Hancock's spare touch to the thoroughly declarative solo Davis lays down. It's hard to pick the most exceptional cut on such a top-flight disc, but certainly Shorter's deceptively simple "Orbits" and "Footprints" deserve mention; on the former, the players take turns stating the melody and then rumbling over it. The latter's echoes of "Caravan" make way for an improv performance that not only hangs tough in itself, but seems to have provided a template for the entire early career of Wynton Marsalis. --Rickey WrightCustomer Reviews:
Miles Away.......2007-03-31
Miles' best 60's effort.......2006-12-13
More In Common With Ornette Coleman's "Shape of Jazz to Come" Than Kind of Blue.......2006-11-15
The very first track on this disc, Orbits, has more in common with Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come than anything Miles did previously. It actually sounds like Ornette's music being played by much more highly skilled musicians.
All of the tracks are wonderful but Circle - it is just exquisite. Miles's phrasing, the lyrical sound he brings to his horn with the Harmon mute - it is the most expressive sound I have ever heard come from a horn.
If you are already a Miles fan, you must have this disc, you will not be disappointed. If you are just getting into Miles then I would start with Kind of Blue, maybe My Funny Valentine, Four and More, then ESP, and then Miles Smiles.
Get your kicks in '66.......2006-07-23
The year 1965 is a howling blank as far as Miles Davis' development goes. Miles Davis discovered Wayne Shorter in late 1964, recorded the album E.S.P. with his new quintet in January 1965, and promptly disappeared from the world until Christmas. Miles had severe health problems, including a buildup of material on his hip joints, and a new addiction to cocaine.
On his return, Miles recorded the famous "Plugged Nickel" sessions, which for the first time showed him trying to break the boundaries of bebop. The band became freer; a less popular musician would have been labelled "avant-garde".
The rhythm section became fluid - Tony Williams could change from a 3/4 beat to a 4/4 and a 5/4, toy around with 6/8 and then 2/4, before layering a 3/4 beat on TOP of a 4/4! Herbie's comping is a quantum leap for jazz piano, playing "chords" that hang suspended in space, like a dandelion seed refusing to land. Meanwhile, Wayne Shorter and Miles play with a suspension of chord structure and a much freer atttitude to rhythm and phrasing.
The "Second Great Quintet" entered the studios in 1966 and recorded Miles Smiles. The performances are near-perfect, a sample of the peak of acoustic jazz as it was in its dying days.
Listen to the reinvention of the tune "Caravan" in "Footprints", a Shorter tune with a memorable bass line. Listen to the freedom of Miles' soloing in "Circle" (a.k.a. "Drad Dog"), and Herbie Hancock's classical lines in the same piece. Listen to the startling Wayne Shorter solo in "Freedom Jazz Dance", with its trademark howling phrases.
This is an album that is a little hard to take for a newcomer. But if you liked "Kind of Blue", and want to see Miles Davis' greatest achievement of the 1960s, get this album!
Classic.......2006-06-05
Just buy this album, it is classic.
Average customer rating: |
Miles Smiles
Miles Davis Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000008T6B Release Date: 1997-07-01 |
Tracks:
- Orbits
- Circle
- Footprints
- Dolores
- Freedom Jazz Dance
- Gingerbread Boy
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Miles of Smiles
Black Dice Manufacturer: Dfa Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000254YP0 Release Date: 2004-04-06 |
Tracks:
- Miles of Smiles
- Trip Dude Delay
Customer Reviews:
Great.......2005-06-26
interesting, but a bit of a letdown. .......2004-07-27
However this judgement may be inaccurate as the music was meant to be heard as part of an installation and may be very effective in its prepared enviorment.
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Miles of Smiles
Black Dice Manufacturer: Dfa Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0001VOP72 Release Date: 2004-04-06 |
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