Water babies
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| Label (s) | Columbia Records |
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LP / CD |
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5/6 |
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53:16 |
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Water Babies is a jazz album by Miles Davis . It contains material that was created on June 7, 13 and 23, 1967 and November 11 and 12, 1968 in various line-ups and was released in 1976 by Columbia Records .
Creation of the album and the recordings
The major label Columbia had to meet the increasing demand for records by the trumpeter during Miles Davis' illness-related break from 1975 to 1981; In addition to the compilations of unpublished studio recordings Directions (1981) and Circle in the Round (1979) as well as live recordings ( Miles Davis at Plugged Nickel, Chicago ), material from a phase of the musician was released in 1976, which the "increasing electrification" of the band with the addition of electric piano and electric bass .
The music on the A-side of the album with the three Shorter compositions Water Babies , Capricorn and Sweet Pea (which Shorter dedicated to Billy Strayhorn ) was created with the cast of the "second Miles Davis Quintet" (Davis, Wayne Shorter , Herbie Hancock , Ron Carter , Tony Williams ) during the 1967 Nefertiti sessions; the remaining two tracks in November 1968, when Chick Corea played electric piano with Hancock and Dave Holland replaced Ron Carter on bass. This coincides with the time between the Filles de Kilimanjaro and In a Silent Way sessions in February 1969. Wayne Shorter published his three A-side compositions on the Blue Note album Super Nova .
In 2002 the extended CD version of the album was released as a bonus track with the title Splash recorded on November 12, 1968 , which (compared to the version released on Circle in the Round in 1979 ) also includes the keyboard introduction by Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea contains.
Track list
- Miles Davis: Water Babies (Columbia PC 34396)
A1 Water Babies (Shorter) 5:06
A2 Capricorn (Shorter) 8:27
A3 Sweet Pea (Shorter) 7:59
B1 Two Faced (Shorter) 18:01
B2 Dual Mr. Tillman Anthony (Davis) 13:18
reception
Bob Blumenthal praised the album after it was released in Rolling Stone in 1977 (" some of its best music. There is simply so much happening here; hear it. ") And compared the three Shorter compositions on the A side with Wayne Shorter's album Super Nova . In this context, the critic quoted Herbie Hancock's 1969 comment (" Miles ... shapes all the tunes that come into his band ") and confirmed the band leader's tendency to suppress the more extroverted tendencies of his musicians. Here he particularly emphasized Tony Williams 'simple cymbal use behind Davis' solo in Water Babies and his melodic accompaniment for Shorter in the same piece, which was "overwhelming". In Capricorn , the focus is on the use of the piano - Hancock only plays his solo with his right hand. Miles Davis himself recalls his game in 1956 with his own solo, while Ron Carter and Tony Williams played in a more contemporary style. Shorter's composition Two Faced (from the November 1968 session) sounds "like a dry run for the In a Silent Way Sessions"; The rolling keyboard figures of the two pianists are brilliant. Dual Mr. Tillman Anthony (who Davis entered under the pen name W. Process ; Tillman is the first name of Tony Williams' father) is a funky, syncopated riff, 14 bars long, repeated for 13 minutes by Corea, Carter and Dave Holland becomes.
Jim Santella wrote in All About Jazz , the last two album titles Dual Mr. Anthony Tillmon Williams Process and Splash documented the change in Miles Davis' music that was beginning in his ensemble sound. In summary, he praised: Water Babies is a collector's item that continues to capture our imaginations with every listen.
Scott Yanow gave the album 3½ (out of five) stars in Allmusic and said:
- Although not an essential set, this album fills in some gaps during Davis's transitional period from adventurous acoustic playing to early electric performances.
Individual evidence
- ^ Gene Santoro: Dancing in Your Head , 1994 - 155
- ↑ Jacek Brzozowski: Miles Davis musical career until 1970: Analysis of the album "Bitches Brew" , p. 10
- ^ Review of the album (1977) in Rolling Stone
- ^ Review of Jim Santella's album at All About Jazz
- ↑ Review of Scott Yanow's album Water Babies at Allmusic (English). Retrieved December 28, 2013.