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Shhh The command to be quiet is not just part of the title of one of the two sprawling compositions on this pioneering album It's also an apt metaphor for the relaxed hypnotism and spaced-out atmosphere that define In a Silent Way, a record that pushes the boundaries of studio possibilities, artist-producer relationships, and... -
It was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic generation of young musicians, an important handful of whom had been in his band Rock music was flying off in every direction, just as America itself seemed about to split at its seams Following the circumscribed grooves and ambiance of...
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Miles Davis and Gil Evans bridged styles and collaborated on high-concept projects a total of three times during their celebrated career For their final act, they created Sketches of Spain, a peak moment in each luminary's career and a transformative album that weds Spanish themes, lush orchestrations, romantic timbres, and Davis'...
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Miles in the Sky reflects the intriguing curiosities and rainbow possibilities suggested by the album cover Miles Davis' fifth and final album with his classic second quintet is kaleidoscopic in sound, forward-looking in structure, and contextually grounded in approach As the legendary leader's first venture into what would become...
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Miles Davis' move into full-on fusion starts here Abandoning his bebop roots and chasing electric dreams, rock-based rhythms, and ostinato pulses, the icon gives life to new music forms on Filles de Kilimanjaro, a titanic release prized for its historical significance and lasting beauty Grounded and focused, the five compositions...
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Miles Davis is regarded to be one of the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music At the request of Columbia Records executive George Avakian, he formed his first regular quintet in 1955 After all members of the first quintet left Davis a few years later, he hired the core of the second...
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"Analogue Productions has continued to push its own already high bar higher still Its Quality Record Pressings plant is delivering the best vinyl discs to be found, its jackets and cover reproduction quality have hit new levels, and it continues to have the best in the biz — such as Kevin Gray for this series (25 mono LPs from...
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Agharta was recorded on the afternoon in 1975, at one of two concerts Miles Davis performed at the Osaka Festival Hall in Japan The album has received retrospective acclaim as an important and influential Jazz-Rock record Its abrasive music and Cosey's innovative playing influenced a generation of young musicians, including those...
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Miles Davis' first album for Columbia, 'Round About Midnight, represents both the beginning of a three-plus-decade relationship with the famed label as well as the start of an extended collaboration with then-unknown saxophonist John Coltrane As one of the era's only complete start-to-finish full-length LPs, the 1957 set stands as...
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How does one properly introduce an epochal record Perhaps by unequivocally stating that it is the best-selling jazz album in history Or by affirming that, every year, it sells tens of thousands of copies more than five decades after its original release There's also the matter of its status as the most-referenced, and arguably,...
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If a more significant, influential, and lasting result of a creative musical partnership exists than that of Miles Davis and Gil Evans' Porgy and Bess, society hasn't seen it It's impossible to overstate the importance of the pair's collaboration on the landmark 1959 update of George Gershwin's opera Transcending genre, time, and...
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Miles Davis’s two-night stand at The Blackhawk in San Francisco marked a watershed in jazz history, a seminal event transforming the American musical landscape Davis had never been recorded live in a club with his combo and the performances over the course of two sets a night on April 21 and 22, 1961 more than justify the legend...
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Legendary trumpeter Miles Davis was still near the start of his storied career when he cut the three sessions that comprise his Blue Note recordings in 1952, 1953, and 1954 In 1955, Blue Note compiled the tracks into two 12” LPs as part of the 1500 series The music presents all the hallmarks of his early style from blazing...
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Undeniably one of the most iconic smaIl bands in the history of jazz, the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-1950s featured an all-star line-up of Miles Davis (trumpet), John Coltrane (tenor sax), Red Garland (piano), Paul Chambers (bass) and Philly Joe Jones (drums) This edition of Workin'— released as part of the Original Jazz...
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"Analogue Productions has continued to push its own already high bar higher still Its Quality Record Pressings plant is delivering the best vinyl discs to be found, its jackets and cover reproduction quality have hit new levels, and it continues to have the best in the biz - such as Kevin Gray for this series (25 mono LPs from the...
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Cut from the analogue masters by renowned mastering engineer Kevin Gray 180-gram pressing by Quality Record Pressings "Analogue Productions has continued to push its own already high bar higher still Its Quality Record Pressings plant is delivering the best vinyl discs to be found, its jackets and cover reproduction quality...
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"Analogue Productions has continued to push its own already high bar higher still Its Quality Record Pressings plant is delivering the best vinyl discs to be found, its jackets and cover reproduction quality have hit new levels, and it continues to have the best in the biz - such as Kevin Gray for this series (25 mono LPs from the...
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Nefertit will always be known as the final all-acoustic record made by Miles Davis' classic second quintet A thematic bookend to the preceding Sorcerer, the 1967 set shares much in common with its equally nuanced predecessor yet deviates by way of its focus on rhythm and exploratory soundscapes The low-key music blooms with...
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A landmark recording and masterful symphony of performance, composition, and execution, Miles Davis' ESP established the template jazz would follow for the following decade The 1965 record splits the gap between accessible hard-bop and the cutting-edge approach Davis increasingly pursued into the 1970s Adventurous, sophisticated,...
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"Listen to This" As the original working title for Bitches Brew, the instruction and invitation resonates to this day as the best way to approach a record that shattered conventions, altered music history, and, more than five decades after its original release, still sounds far ahead of its time The aural Mount Rushmore of jazz...
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Academy and Grammy ® Award-winning composer/arranger Michel Legrand (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Summer of ’42, The Thomas Crown Affair) was not a household name in America in 1958, but he was renowned among musicians and a life-long fanatic of American jazz and its players Legrand Jazz is the result of Legrand traveling to...
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Audiophile Reference Sonics: Lean, Stripped-Back, and Open Sound With Startling Immediacy and Realism 1/4" / 15 IPS analog master to DSD 64 to analog console to lathe Miles Davis' A Tribute to Jack Johnson is the best jazz-rock record ever made Equally inspired by the leader's desire to assemble the "greatest rock and roll...
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Reissue Presents Oft-Overlooked Masterwork with Riveting Sound - in Mono 1/4" / 15 IPS analog mono master to DSD 64 to analog console to lathe Miles Davis created just one studio album with his original sextet He made every moment count Pairing with Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe...
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ESP marks the beginning of a revitalization for Miles Davis, as his second classic quintet — saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams — gels, establishing what would become their signature adventurous hard bop Miles had been moving toward this direction in the two years...
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This edition presents the complete album Someday My Prince Will Come, which was the only studio LP made by the formation of the Miles Davis Quintet featuring Hank Mobley on tenor sax (the two other official sets by this quintet would be live recordings) It also marks the last recorded encounter of Miles with John Coltrane, who...
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"There is something more satisfying and historically complete to having a superbly reproduced version of the original document and that is what Sam Records provides in its commendably completist style that includes a laminated 'fold-over' cover, outstanding cover photo reproduction and as a bonus, a black and whilte matte finish...
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Legends have a way of sticking around If there was ever an album awaiting a high-fidelity, custom-pressed vinyl treatment of the level you now hold in your hands, it is Miles Davis' Kind of Blue The top-selling jazz album of all time, it has been lauded, entered into "Best Of" lists and Halls of Fame, and universally acknowledged...
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That's What Happened 1982-1985: Bootleg Volume 7 is the next instalment in the celebrated, award-winning archival series that began in 2011, shining an in-depth light onto different eras of the legendary career of Miles Davis In the 1980s, popular music had moved to a smoother, electronic-based sound that traded the steam of...
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A partner album to the previous Miles release “Decoy,” this album released in 1985 is also produced by Miles and loaded with the synths of Robert Irving This LP has some surprising new looks at pop tunes by Micheal Jackson and Cyndi Lauper and also features the return of John McLaughlin on guitar, and a guest performance from...
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This record is self produced by Miles himself!!! Without long time production collaborator Teo Macero, Miles chases new directions with this 1984 recording Miles allows keyboardist Robert Irving and guitar legend John Scofield to write most of the material on the LP This record is dripping with some of the new sounds of synths...
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Miles Davis Bopping the Blues on 180-gram LP from Black Lion/Original Recordings Group Landmark 1946 historical release documents Miles Davis' first-known instance of open-voiced trumpet playing at one of his earliest sessions Tantalizing audiophile restoration series resurrects UK label Black Lion: Mastered by Bernie Grundman...
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Reissue, originally released in 1982 "Pressed on opaque yellow vinyl with Japanese stylized insert and deluxe obi strip Remastered from the original analog tapes The first live Miles Davis electric band release since 1977's very dark and heavy Dark Magus The album features live performances from shows at Boston's Kix Club The...
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"The Analogue Productions sound is visceral and crisp in the best sense, and the quiet pressings ensure that no musical detail is even mildly obscuredwith these 45rpm LPs, if your system is up to the task, you'll hear boundless high-frequency reach and lavish dynamic nuance and harmonic delicacy" - Marc Mickelson, The Audio Beat,...
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2 hours of previously unreleased studio recordings from 1966-1968 Newly mixed and remastered in high resolution audio 50th anniversary of Miles Smiles - one of the albums that came out of these recordings Includes full session reels including all rehearsals, partial and alternate takes, studio conversation and...
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After John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderly left the 'quintet', Miles Davis was forced to search for new qualified musicians He found them in Hank Mobley, Wynton Kelly, Jimmy Cobb and Paul ChambersIn 1961, just two years after recording Kind Of Blue, Miles and his new line up started recording energetically and finished Someday My...
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PORGY & BESS MILES DAVIS - VINYL LP - Porgy and Bess is a studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis, released in March 1959 on Columbia Records The album features arrangements by Davis and collaborator Gil Evans from George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess The album was recorded in four sessions on July 22, July 29,...
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Recorded in two days in the summer of 1967 Nefertiti is Miles Davis' last fully acoustic album, with no compositions from Miles himself Most tracks are written by Wayne Shorter & Herbie Hancock Best known for its unusual title track, where the horns keep repeating the melody and the rhythm section improvises (in stead of...
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The wonderful Post-Bop album Miles Smiles (1967) was recorded by Davis's second great quintet, which featured saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony Williams The album showcases Davis' deeper exploration of modal performance with looser forms, tempos, and meters Although it did not...
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Live-Evil (1970) by Miles Davis is a double live album which features different settings of Miles Davis' bands One of such recordings is of a 1970 gig at the Cellar Door, which featured a band comprised of Miles, bassist Michael Henderson, drummer Jack DeJohnette, guitarist John McLaughlin, saxophonist Gary Barts, and Keith...
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It has been said that Jazz stopped evolving when Davis wasn't there to push it forward Even if that isn't true, Miles Davis certainly was one of the greatest music innovators of the 20th century, pioneering Cool Jazz (with the 1949 recording of Birth Of The Cool), Modal Jazz (with 1959's Kind Of Blue) and Fusion with 1970's...
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Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud is a 1958 French film directed by Louis Malle It was released as Lift To The Scaffold in the UK The film was nothing special, but it did accomplish one thing: it proposed a new ideal of cinematic realism, a new way to look at a woman Jean-Paul Rappeneau, a Jazz fan and Malle's assistant at the time,...
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Miles Davis' often overlooked masterpiece Miles in the Sky is his venture into the jazz-rock, which later became known as fusion While working together with his second great quintet his interest in the usage of electric instruments was increasing every day The first album from his “Electric” period is one big grooving...
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Miles Davis Kind of Blue meets Analogue Productions' UHQR, the pinnacle of high-quality vinyl! Definitive handmade limited run reissue Ultra High Quality Record! 33 1/3 RPM LP release limited to 25,000 copies Best-selling album in jazz history; mastered directly from the original 3-Track master tapes by Bernie Grundman Pressed...
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Filles de Kilimanjaro (named after the Kilimanjaro African Coffee) is one the many masterpieces American composer and trumpeter Miles Davis recorded during his lifetime It can be seen as a transitional album, right between his “acoustic” and “electric” period He recorded this incredible work of modern jazz together with...
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Except for the taping of a live performance at the Portland Festival, Miles Davis’s discography for 1966 only lists the recordings made for the LP "Miles Smiles"! How strange when one considers the usual large output of Miles and his ensembles for Columbia Records in the Sixties The bass player Ron Carter was best suited for the...
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It's 1964 and the first Berlin Jazz Festival is about to reach its absolute peak: the final concert on the night of Friday, 25th September by Miles Davis And the European subsidiary of Columbia Records, CBS, couldn’t wait to release this legendary event on LP The new quintet, for the first time with Wayne Shorter on the tenor...
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Reissue Originally released in 1976 180 gram vinyl "Water Babies is a compilation album by American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis It compiled music Davis recorded in studio sessions with his quintet in 1967 and 1968, including outtakes from his 1968 album Nefertiti and recordings that foreshadowed his direction on In a Silent Way...
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