A Tribute to Jack Johnson
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| Studio album by Miles Davis | ||||
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| Label (s) | Columbia | |||
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LP, CD |
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2 |
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52:26 |
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| occupation | First track and first half of the second track, recorded on April 7, 1970 :
The second half of the second piece (around 12:55 p.m.) was recorded on February 18, 1970 with the following line-up: |
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A Tribute to Jack Johnson (also released under the title Jack Johnson ) is a jazz album by Miles Davis . His music was a 1970 soundtrack to the documentary by Bill Cayton on the heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson added.
Recordings
For the film soundtrack, recordings from various studio sessions with different casts were selected and assembled together.
According to legend, the second recording session on April 7, 1970 began almost by accident. John McLaughlin , who was waiting for Miles Davis, began improvising that Michael Henderson and Billy Cobham came up with . Herbie Hancock , who happened to be in the building, was hired by the producer as a keyboard player at short notice. Miles Davis reportedly came last and started his solo after about 2:19 minutes on the first track. In fact, the tape had started nine times before. According to producer Teo Macero, the first tracks were not very convincing: “But when we got started, we got it right.” Instructions that Davis gave to guitarist John McLaughlin and which were recorded also prove that Davis had been in the studio before .
The two pieces were later put together by Teo Macero . Right Off is composed of various recordings and a solo by Miles Davis from a session in November 1969. Much of the Yesternow piece is built around a slightly modified bass line from the James Brown song Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud ; a likely deliberate allusion, as the black power theme of the song was also the subject of the film. Yesternow also includes a quote from Shhh / Peaceful from the Davis album In a Silent Way and a ten-minute section of parts of Willie Nelson from a session on February 18, 1970.
A Tribute to Jack Johnson was less commercially successful than Bitches Brew , only reaching 159th place on the Billboard 200 , while Bitches Brew made it to 35th place. However, some fans and critics see A Tribute to Jack Johnson as the more musically demanding one. On the other hand, the album is presented as the rockiest recording by Miles Davis: Billy Cobham is the Charlie Watts of the session
Track list
- Right Off - 26:53
- Yesternow - 25:34
At the end of the play Yesternow you can hear actor Brock Peters say: “I'm Jack Johnson - heavyweight champion of the world! I'm black! They never let me forget it. I'm black all right; I'll never let them forget it. "
Editorial notes
In 2003, a box with five CDs was released, in which all material from the Jack Johnson recording sessions was presented. According to Paul Olson, the re-release of the original 2005 album on CD is preferable to the 1991 CD and the 1971 LP due to the better mix.
Web links
- Paul Tingen about the recording of Jack Johnson and The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions box set (English)
Remarks
- ↑ Thom Jurek: Review of A Tribute to Jack Johnson on Allmusic . Retrieved May 16, 2010.
- ^ "The earlier stuff they did [on April 7] was very poor. But when we did it, we did it right. " n. Paul Tingen
- ↑ To be heard on the 5-CD box Miles Davis: The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions
- ^ A b Paul Olsen on Miles Davis: A Tribute to Jack Johnson
- ↑ The Edition u. a. by Seth Rothstein .