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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #6135 on: February 02, 2012, 08:30:53 AM »
Miles Davis: In a Silent Way

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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #6136 on: February 02, 2012, 09:38:14 AM »
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew

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This is usually where I get off the Miles train. I know this is supposed to be a landmark album, but sorry guys, I just don't get it. I just can't get into the atonal an poly-rhythmic styles of  avant-garde jazz (but then again I never have been big on 20th Century classic for some of the same reasons. I really enjoy mast of Miles' earlier work, but this is just a bit too off the beaten path for my tastes.

But to each his own.  8)

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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #6137 on: February 02, 2012, 09:47:05 AM »
Bitches Brew is also an album that I never really understood musically. However, don't give up on what follows Tom. There's some good stuff after this too (selectively).
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #6138 on: February 02, 2012, 09:50:09 AM »
Bitches Brew is also an album that I never really understood musically. However, don't give up on what follows Tom. There's some good stuff after this too (selectively).

Oh, I have no intention of stopping. Bitches Brew is album 15 of the set. 5 more to go.  8)
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #6139 on: February 02, 2012, 12:07:58 PM »
Miles Davis: A Tribute to Jack Johnson

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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #6140 on: February 02, 2012, 12:20:36 PM »
Miles Davis: On the Corner

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The liner notes describe this album as "Scenarios combining funk rhythms with the formal and resonant abstractions of contemporary music." And abstract it is.
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #6141 on: February 02, 2012, 12:32:41 PM »
Miles Davis: We Want Miles

Sony Music 2 CD Set (EU Import)

OK, here is my first complaint about one of these Sony "perfect" collections. This 2 CD set comes in a cardboard mini-LP sleeve that opens like a book. The problem is that the openings to get the CDs out are on the inside, both facing the spine. This wouldn't bee so bad except for the fact that the sleeves are a bit tight so in order to get the CD out you need to turn the slot facing down and give it a little shake. Well three times in a row I did this and the disc slipped down exactly into the slot on the other side with the other CD. This happened 3 times before I was able to get disc one out of the sleeve. Boy I felt like a dope. It would have been much easier if the slots just faced to the outside of the sleeve like the single disc albums do. A minor headache, but annoying none the less.

As for the music it is pop-funk-jazz fusion type live album, but nowhere near as abstract as On the Corner was.
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #6142 on: February 02, 2012, 05:04:02 PM »
Miles Davis: Star People

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Electric Funk Jazz Fusion.

Not bad, but I much prefer his 1950s & 60s acoustic work. YMMV
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #6143 on: February 02, 2012, 05:34:33 PM »
Mike Davis: Decoy

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The last of the 20 Album Perfect Miles Davis Collection. Similar in musical style to the Star People album.

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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #6144 on: February 02, 2012, 05:45:48 PM »
Nice work Tom, I kinda like 'We Want Miles', and Bitches Brew grows on me with each listen. But the older ones are faves.

Did you by chance get his French Soundtrack album, "Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud (Lift To The Scaffold)"
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #6145 on: February 02, 2012, 05:47:08 PM »
The Division Bell
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In from the airport an hour ago, decompressing to this and a stiff shot.
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #6146 on: February 02, 2012, 06:10:02 PM »
Did you by chance get his French Soundtrack album, "Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud (Lift To The Scaffold)"

No I don't have that one, but my friend ALIS does.   :D

I should be delivered early next week. (As if I didn't have enough Miles Davis for a while.....  :roll: )
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #6147 on: February 02, 2012, 06:10:13 PM »
Happiness is when your system overcomes your nervosa ;) 
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #6148 on: February 02, 2012, 06:11:29 PM »
The Division Bell
Pink Floyd | Format: Audio CD


In from the airport an hour ago, decompressing to this and a stiff shot.

Any good Florida LPs this week?   aa
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #6149 on: February 02, 2012, 06:13:35 PM »
Pretty sure I was at this show...

Wow, how did the Pumpkinman miss a cover like that?????  :rofl:
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