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from sony's sales dept:
<i>Miles Davis' The Complete On The Corner Sessions, the eighth and final deluxe box set in the Grammy Award-winning Miles Davis Series, includes more than 6 hours of music - twelve previously unissued tracks plus five tracks previously unissued in full - covering sixteen sessions from On the Corner, Big Fun, and Get Up With it.
Joined by such jazz legends as Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, Jack DeJohnette, Billy Hart, and countless others, this 6-CD deluxe edition also contains a 120-page full-color booklet with liner notes and essays by Grammy-winning producer Bob Belden, journalist Tom Terrell, and acclaimed arranger and composer Paul Buckmaster.
With such a comprehensive collection of Miles Davis' songs, plus dozens of rare photographs and new illustrations, this very special deluxe box set is a must have for any fan of Davis' genius or jazz music in general.</i>
I am on the fence about this, but one reason for sharing this on RSN.net is that for a week or so Newbury will have it for $30 or more less than most other competitors:
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Howard Mandel's <a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/jazzbeyondjazz/2007/08/miles_way_beyond_and_raw.html">Jazz Beyond Jazz</a> blog gives off some interesting tidbits. He has a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Miles-Ornette-Cecil-Jazz-Beyond/dp/0415967147/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_a/002-0916466-4341615">book </a>coming out later this year on Ornette, Cecil Taylor and others that I can't wait to read.
Also:
<a href="http://www.citypaper.com/columns/story.asp?id=14562"> Yet another</a> interesting review.
I'm listening to this crazy percussive thing on disc 2, track 2 right now - I think its in 5/4. Its pretty transfixing and LOUD.
I'd like to see someone in 2007 tour stadiums with stuff like this like Davis did back in the early 70's. (Why do I get the impression that the DCU or Dunkin Donuts center(s) would tell all parties involved to get fucked?)
A couple of the longer tracks I have heard dont feature Miles until like 8 or 9 minutes in - all parties involved are killer here - you don't even notice not hearing Miles on electric Miles stuff - is that weird? Probably.
A lot of the usual suspects (Mtume, Herbie Hancock, John Mclaughlin) here, which is weird because both at time of original release (1972ish?) and re-issue (2000ish?) most or all non-Davis associates on these sessions were uncredited.
Sun Ra probably would have been lucky to get anything bigger than a college auditorium.
The idea of anyone playing what Miles was playing in places that typically accommodated the Who and Fleetwood Mac and yes (gulp) Steve Miller (Mr. Miller referred to in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Miles-Davies/dp/0671725823/ref=pd_bbs_2/102-4715224-9496950?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192906054&sr=1-2">Miles's autobiography</a>, btw, as that 'no-playing motherfucker') is mind blowing regardless of how it got there.
Whats at the DCU center and Fleet Boston these days? Hannah Montana? Dancing With The Stars? (Wolfgang)Van Halen?