Miles Davis had an extraordinary career and an extensive one at that. He did so much for Jazz and music and had one of the longest careers music has ever seen. What are some of your favorite albums, songs, live performances by him? And what is or are you favorite era(s) of him? Miles' discography runs long and he did a lot with his music, what about his work do you find the most brilliant and amazing?

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as talented as he was as a Musician, he was even better as a talent scout and I mean he truly got the right people for each direction and sound he wanted to go in.

He had a big ego and yet he was cool enough to asemble cats who had incredible chops and who could modernize what was happpening and yet keep it as Miles.

Miles embraced the changes in music and yet stayed in his lane. he took that gumbo and stired up his own soup.


i enjoyed the Progression and fusion he went in.

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the way he constantly changed with the times but did it without ever losing his step or way. He had this very unique way of staying current without losing his sound and look but at the same time he kept both his sound and look current and up to the minute. His music and image always stayed fresh, never stale.

without dealing with all the modern technilogy and outlets to interfere.

he just expanded his horizens and he didn't want to sound old and he embraced the current and swam in that lake as to avoid it.

he didn't act like he was above what was happening.

he wanted what Motown was doing, what Sly and the Family stone, Jimi Hendrix,James brown, etc.. were doing and he wanted to be embraced fully and stay cool with Black America more importantly.

he made it a purpose to identify with a pulse.

you could tell with the "Jack Johnson" Soundtrack he wanted to make a statement.

He was on his Dr King,Malcolm X, Black Panther party, etc.. movement through his horn and he wanted to make a statement

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how important it was to embrace change and stay current and knowing how important it was that times change but with each period in time comes something new and how the past is the past but there's a present and future. He seemed to be always looking towards the future. I liked his attitude and outlook on music.

same with Grover washington jr, george benson,donald byrd, the crusaders, etc.. cats got tired of playing the same ole standards and embraced anything different and went there.

no matter what anybody says especially a Black Superstar in music, nobody wants to be seen as a Old cat who can't embrace the new regardless of what they think.

but when you can bring in a John Coltrane, Tony Williams, Joe Zwanal(Misspelled) Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Chic Corea, Michael Henderson, John Mcclaughlin, James Mtume, and keep it moving that speaks volumes.

also Miles wanted to make a statement and say yeah i can do your thing and still be me.

he made the musical lines blurred and it worked.

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Though I guess I'd start in 1957, 'cause that's when "Bag's Groove" dropped. But I looked through his discography, and the Miles stuff I'm into the hardest starts with that Bag's Groove album (1957) and goes until "On the Corner" (1972). I'll include "Water Babies" in that period as well; even though it was released in '74, but was recorded in '68.

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I think half the songs are outtakes from the Nefertiti or Sorcerer-sessions in 67 and the rest is fusion tracks from 69 or 68...

Basically, it should not really be judged against his other stuff in that era because it's more of a retro-comp even if the VERY 70's-looking cover leads you to think otherwise...

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I dont know too much about Miles although I used to have the tribute to jack johnson lp that he did. I sure wish that they would have released the so called album that he did with Prince.

I remember that Prince said on tavis smiley that Miles had a way with critiquing albums and what an artist did rather than just dismissing you and calling you a punk.

b/c all that electric shit is horrible, imo. at least the stuff i've heard. and i've heard enough of it.

i'm down w/him up until 1967/68.

fuck you.

Which is very much in my top 5 Miles' album, and one of his most beautiful sounding recordings. Even if you don't like his electric stuff (which I do, to an extent), it's probably not fair to leave that one off. It's a transitional album that incorporates some electric in it, but it's mostly a traditional jazz album.

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fuck you.

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is it half acoustic and half electric?

fuck you.

Carter, Hancock, and Corea play electric on some of it, but not all of it.

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i bought several albums from the electric period and tried to get into them (Bitches Brew, On the Corner, Live-Evil, Jack Johnson). i couldn't. i ended up selling them. i think this album was in that bunch.

fuck you.

The keyboards are electric throughout, the bass I'm not sure of but it sounds pretty acoustic to me on some songs, electric on others.

Anyway, none of the bass-lines are walking so it sounds decidedly less ''jazzy'' than his previous albums and also, the drum-patterns are more "funk/rock"-inspired...

It's the one album which the Miles-fusion haters can dig IMO. He really got a great form of acoustic-meets-electric/traditional-meets-pop type jazz going on that album and it's only in the past decades or so people have caught on to that sound. Actually, one of my favorite swedish jazz-acts (=Goran Kajfes) is running with that sound to a certain extent on some albums and since Miles didn't ''finish'' it, I think it's fair game...

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May not seem like a long time but he recorded a shitload of music in that era with a band I consider a GOAT in terms of ''best band ever''-the classic Coltrane Quartet is a valid competitor but as dope as they were, they were still a bit too dominated by their leader in terms of general musical conception, ideas, compositions etc. Miles band in that era on the other hand was a *band* to the core; maybe a band that was guided by Miles vision but a band none the less-just look at the credits or listen to the music and you see what I mean. Miles may have been the guiding hand and very important in terms of the general aesthetic of the band but again:they were a BAND (tm). For a rockist like me (who still like jazz more than any other type of music but whatever), that's something I really appreciate, especially in the context of the era; 60's post-bop/free-jazz is my favorite type of jazz by far but often, the records were just done by pick-up musicians led by a leader so you get a bunch of dope instrumentalists playing a bunch of dope solos but where is the overall musical conception? Where is the vision that makes this date stand out from another one apart from just having another set of dudes with individual styles? *That* aspect is something that only a rare cache of jazz-musicians in that era had and yes, in that context (=Sun Ra, Mingus, Bill Evans, Coltrane, Ayler for a while etc.), Miles (65-67) delivered the hardest and that is something I wish more jazz-musicians did; to become band-leaders and *shape* a sound rather than just being a soloist who happens to lead a record with some talented dudes...

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I don't know much at all about Miles Davis but my best friend told me that he was CRAZY.

I was listening to Prince and eric leeds collaboration albums: Madhouse 8 and Madhouse 16 and Miles Davis would have eat all of that stuff up on the horns.

when my uncle and I would go record shopping back in the 90's, I would always hear white people ask about bitches brew.