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In Reply to: RE: Miles' Electric Period posted by sisterray on February 28, 2022 at 13:44:22
Don't care a whit what anyone else thinks but '69-'75 Miles IMO is fantastic.
If he hadn't done anything before or after the music he helped create
in that period it would have guaranteed him legendary status.
Not that I don't love most of the music he made before '69 and a
fair amount after 1980, but that '69-'75 period is quite special.
Miles Davis wasn't the only one blazing trails in that timeframe either.
The floodgates were open to electric innovation and exploration across the
globe, genre boundaries be damned.
The In A Silent Way complete box might have you rethinking that period.
The On The Corner, Bitches Brew and Jack Johnson Boxes are imperative.
The first time I heard Pangea (initially only available as a Japanese import)
I had to sit down.
And I was already seated!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure
Follow Ups:
I have always loved this album but the box set expanded my appreciation exponentially.
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.
Edits: 03/01/22
to each his own.
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What do I think? Well, since you asked ...
The MD period in question is ... not my cup of tea ... or, to be more
precise, it's a steaming dung heap full of worms foisted off on a public
ready to accept anything he did no matter how paltry the musical content.
You asked.
Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed. - Albert Einstein
Obviously, you don't like it. It'd not bluegrass, And the 70s were bluegrass's finest decade.
"Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once." - John Coltrane.
Cpwill
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