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Posted by MF DU on 2007-09-25 06:44:22 +0000
Miles Davis - The Complete On The Corner Sessions
from sony's sales dept:
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 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:
Posted by mahatma chani on 2007-09-25 07:51:31 +0000
Alvan/Nick plays this one a lot.
Posted by MF DU on 2007-09-25 08:12:00 +0000
Sony ran into manufacturing delays. Not a big surprise amongst Davis fans - 2 or 3 other sets from this series have also had monumental delays. I guess Newbury could sell it for 3 canadian dollars ($3 USD I mean) and it wouldn't matter a tinker's cuss.
Posted by MF DU on 2007-09-25 08:13:58 +0000
If anyone ever listens to the Tortoise 'standards' album, this 'On the Corner' record is almost certainly where Tortoise were influenced by all the crazy handclapping rhythm stuff.
Posted by MF DU on 2007-09-26 15:02:38 +0000
Rory Stark is probably busy plotting how to chop off all my fingers to prevent me from typing future posts like these, but:
Howard Mandel's Jazz Beyond Jazz blog gives off some interesting tidbits. He has a book coming out later this year on Ornette, Cecil Taylor and others that I can't wait to read.
Also:
Yet another interesting review.
Posted by MF DU on 2007-09-26 14:30:00 +0000
Posted by MF DU on 2007-10-19 21:37:54 +0000
Picked it up last night - only through one disc so far, but theres like 2+ hours of electric stuff I've never even heard before.
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.
Posted by mahatma chani on 2007-10-19 22:16:02 +0000
After Miles Davis printed money for all the venue promoters by successfully conning them into booking his "Bitches Brew" era lineup onto bills with Steve Miller, I'm sure he was allowed to do whatever he wanted to do in any size club in the mid 70s and still sell shit out. Hadn't he already won a couple Grammys by this point? Who else would have been a draw in the jazz world at that time? Sun Ra? The Mahuvishnu Orchestra?
Posted by MF DU on 2007-10-20 16:59:52 +0000
Mahuvishnu Orchestra wouldn't have existed the way it was without B. Brew.
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 Miles's autobiography, 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?
Posted by mahatma chani on 2007-11-16 15:48:40 +0000
I gave this alubm a listen today MF DU (the one with four tracks not 6 CDs). It's waaay better than "Bitches Brew"/"Live Evil." Serious question though: at what point do we hold Miles Davis accountable for all the terrible "jam" bands that came outta Vermont/Maine/New Hampshire/Berklee?
Posted by MF DU on 2007-11-17 15:38:14 +0000
The point I would hold him accountable for whatever it is you were mentioning: never.
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