Funny - that's the opposite of me!

Posted by andy evans (A) on March 1, 2022 at 11:31:03

In Reply to: What do we think?... posted by musetap on February 28, 2022 at 15:30:26:

I see you like the 1969-75 period and that's exactly the period I don't really listen to.

I jump from Miles in the Sky (1968) straight to "Man With A Horn" and the albums with Marcus Miller in particular. I think this was a good period for Miles and though he soloed less than in his Sorcerer period where he did a lot of noodling with flurries of closely spaced notes (boring....), he did play out more and interact with the arrangements, which he was always good at from the Gil Evans years.

Not everything was good after 1975. I write a lot of it off and just listen to selected tracks. For example on Amandla which I really like all through the tracks were simpler with no keyboards, but the overall sound was nice with lots of felicitous percussion playing. Something like the way Weather Report progressed from looser improvising with Miroslav Vitous to more written parts with a lot of percussion.

I think that's the most successful of his last period. The other tracks I like are Tutu and Portia from Tutu, Human Nature and Time After Time from You're Under Arrest, The Man With A Horn and Aura-Yellow.

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Topic - Miles' Electric Period - sisterray 13:44:22 02/28/22 (22)

RE: Miles' Electric Period - BillH 14:50:33 04/21/22 (1)

RE:70's Jazz - belyin 20:43:01 04/21/22 (0)

Recently I began exploring Jazz - Goober58 06:07:18 03/07/22 (6)

Other suggestions - belyin 10:06:17 03/07/22 (5)

So much for my Jazz exploration - Goober58 16:18:17 03/07/22 (4)

Wait 'till you hear Blood do blues... - musetap 16:24:03 03/12/22 (1)

RE: Wait 'till you hear Blood do blues... - Goober58 22:35:19 03/12/22 (0)

Odyssey - belyin 17:11:38 03/07/22 (1)

Mr Ulmer.... - andy evans 15:17:19 03/08/22 (0)

RE: Miles' Electric Period - sisterray 13:35:08 03/02/22 (0)

Miles Electric - A Different Kind of Blue - hifitommy 11:44:32 03/02/22 (0)

RE: Miles' Electric Period - Cpwill 09:36:26 03/02/22 (0)

I like Miles at the Fillmore, mainly because of Steve Grossman. nt - oldmkvi 16:29:45 02/28/22 (0)

What do we think?... - musetap 15:30:26 02/28/22 (6)

+1 In A Silent Way complete box - sbrook 19:17:45 03/02/22 (0)

Funny - that's the opposite of me! - andy evans 11:31:03 03/01/22 (2)

I stop in the late 60's - peteSF 12:07:22 03/02/22 (1)

+1. nt - alaskahiatt 23:19:47 03/02/22 (0)

RE: What do we think?... - Mike K 10:08:33 03/01/22 (1)

RE: What do we think?... - Cpwill 09:32:25 03/02/22 (0)

RE: Miles' Electric Period - andy evans 14:24:37 02/28/22 (1)

Anything with Marcus Miller - andy evans 02:26:25 03/01/22 (0)

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Funny - that's the opposite of me! - andy evans 11:31:03 03/01/22 (2)

I stop in the late 60's - peteSF 12:07:22 03/02/22 (1)

+1. nt - alaskahiatt 23:19:47 03/02/22 (0)

Funny - that's the opposite of me!

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