We want miles
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6th |
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76:45 |
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We Want Miles is a live double album by jazz musician Miles Davis , released in April 1982 on Columbia Records . The album won the 1983 Grammy Award for best jazz instrumental performance by a soloist.
background
The album contains recordings of Davis' first live appearances after he had withdrawn for more than five years. The recordings were made at Boston's Kix Club on June 27, 1981, at Avery Fisher Hall in New York on July 5, 1981, and in Tokyo on October 4 of the same year. Davis had hardly rehearsed with the band before, and the musicians feared before the concert that Davis' career and their own would be over.
Bill Evans wrote of the musicians' fears and the making of the album: "We never went through any tracks from beginning to end. [...] That would never work. [...] From then on, we realized that the music did that would be what everyone put into it. […] And when it started, everything was fine. ”The Miller - Foster rhythm section harmonized well and Davis himself was mostly in good shape. Only Mike Stern's rock guitar was sometimes felt to be unsuitable.
Track list
All pieces by Miles Davis unless otherwise noted
- Jean-Pierre - 10:30
- Back Seat Betty - 8:10
- Fast Track - 3:10 p.m.
- Jean-Pierre - 4:00
- My Man's Gone Now ( DuBose Heyward , George Gershwin ) - 20:12
- Kix - 18:45
reception
The album received both negative and positive reviews. Buzz Morison wrote in Rolling Stone :
“The nursery-rhyme singsong of" Jean Pierre "and the nonstop rush of" Fast Track "are the highlights here, and while the rest is relatively free of aimless noodling, there is little evidence that Miles had much of importance to contribute on those evenings. "
"Jean Pierre's nursery rhyme chant and the non-stop rush of" Fast Track "are the highlights here, and while the rest is relatively devoid of aimless improvisation, there's little evidence that Miles played a significant role on those evenings Has."
Scott Yanow was more positive about the album and wrote on Allmusic :
"Davis's second recording since ending his six-year retirement was one of his best of the 1980s [...] As for Davis, he was gradually regaining his earlier form."
"Davis's second recording after the end of his six-year retreat was one of his best in the 1980s [...] And as for Davis, he was gradually coming back to his former form."
The critics Richard Cook & Brian Morton only gave the album three stars (out of four) in The Penguin Guide to Jazz ; they raised especially the soulful reinterpretation of George Gershwin - standards produced "My Man's Gone Now".
Davis biographer Peter Wießmüller was able to gain more from the album. " We Want Miles is a good live album that is far from [...] showing new ways, but which puts the familiar in a new light," quoting Werner Burkhardt . This becomes particularly clear in the two numbers from the The Man with the Horn album, “Black Seat Betty” and “Aida”, here titled “Fast Track”: “The slick polish that adheres to the studio productions is like here blown away by a hardly thought possible fire that sounds from Miles' trumpet, driven by Al Foster's rhythmically driven substructure, which is able to set its fill-outs with the security of a punch machine . "In the last two pieces of the record, in" My Man's Gone Now ”and“ Kix ”, play the group“ quite unfocused and incoherent, and Miles doesn't manage to compensate for these weaknesses either. ”Mike Stern in particular suffers from disorientation and has to fall back on rock clichés. "My Man's Gone Now" is better; Miles Davis present here an "outline of all styles [before] that he has ever cultivated"
Individual evidence
- ^ Grammy Awards - Past Winners Search. Retrieved January 3, 2015 .
- ^ A b c Peter Niklas Wilson: Miles Davis. His life. His music. His records. Oreos Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-923657-62-5 , pp. 202-203.
- ↑ We Want Miles. In: Rolling Stone. July 22, 1982, accessed January 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Scott Yanow: Review of We Want Miles. Retrieved January 2, 2015 .
- ^ Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 , p. 382.
- ↑ Peter Wießmüller: Miles Davis: His life, his music, his records. Oreos, (Collection Jazz), Schaftlach o. J. (2nd edition = 1988). P. 180 ff.