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Miles Davis: Miles Ahead

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Artist: Miles Davis
Title: Miles Ahead
Released: 1957.05.27
Label: Columbia Records
Time: 43:36
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Appears with:
Category: Jazz
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2001.07.19
Price in €: 6,99
Web address: www.milesdavis.com

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[1] Springsville (Carisi) - 3:27
[2] The Maids of Cadiz (Delibes) - 3:53
[3] The Duke (Brubeck) - 3:35
[4] My Ship (Gershwin/Weill) - 4:28
[5] Miles Ahead (Davis/Evans) - 3:29
[6] Blues for Pablo (Evans) - 5:18
[7] New Rhumba (Jamal) - 4:37
[8] The Meaning of the Blues (Troup/Worth) - 2:48
[9] Lament (Johnson) - 2:15
[10] I Don't Wanna Be Kissed [By Anyone But You] (Elliott/Spina) - 3:05

Bonus tracks not on the original LP:
[11] Springsville (Carisi) - 3:14
[12] Blues for Pablo (Evans) - 3:28
[13] Meaning of the Blues/Lament (Johnson/Troup/Worth) - 5:08
[14] I Don't Wanna Be Kissed [By Anyone But You] (Elliot/Spina) - 3:12
 

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MILES DAVIS - Trumpet, Flagoelet, Flugelhorn

GIL EVANS - Arranger, Conductor, Director
WALTER BISHOP, Jr. - Piano
JIMMY CLEVELAND - Trombone
PHILLY JOE JONES - Drums
WYNTON KELLY - Piano
LEE KONITZ - Alto Saxophone
JOHN LEWIS - Piano
CHARLES MINGUS - Piano
MAX ROACH - Drums
SONNY ROLLINS - Tenor Saxophone
HORACE SILVER - Piano
ART TAYLOR - Drums
TAFT JORDAN - Trumpet
FRANK REHAK - Trombone
ERNIE ROYAL - Trumpet
JOE BENNETT & THE SPARKLETONES - Trombone
PERCY HEATH - Bass
WILLIE RUFF - Horn, French Horn
DANNY BANK - Bass Clarinet
BILLY BARBER - Tuba
ART BLAKEY - Drums
JAMES BUFFINGTON - Horn, French Horn
EDDIE CAINE - Clarinet, Flute
JOHNNY CARISI - Trumpet
PAUL CHAMBERS - Bass
SID COOPER - Bass, Clarinet, Flute
BERNIE GLOW - Trumpet
JAMES JORDAN - Trumpet
TONY MIRANDA - Horn, French Horn
THOMAS MITCHELL - Trombone, Bass Trombone
LOUIS MUCCI - Trumpet
CHARLIE PARKER - Tenor Saxophone
ROMEO PENQUE - Bass, Clarinet, Flute, Oboe
TOM MITCHELL - Bass, Trombone, Bass Trombone

GEORGE AVAKIAN - Producer, Liner Notes, Reissue Producer, Digital Remixing Producer
CAL LAMPLEY - Producer, Associate Producer, Assistant Producer
HAROLD CHAPMAN - Engineer
FRED PLAUT - Engineer
MARK WILDER - Editing, Mastering
RAY MOORE - Digital Remixing
PHIL SCHAAP - Producer, Liner Notes, Editing
GARY PACHECO - Series Coordinator
ALLEN WEINBERG - Art Direction
PENNY ARMSTRONG - Product Manager
TOM "Curly" RUFF - Engineer
DON HUNSTEIN - Photography
SETH ROTHSTEIN - Remastering
HOWARD FRITZSON - Art Direction
PAUL M. MARTIN - Art Direction
RANDALL MARTIN - Design
MICHAEL BROOKS - Series Coordinator
AMY HEROT - Series Coordinator
PETE CENEDELLA - Package Coordinator
RENE ARSENAULT - Associate Producer
ANDRÉ HODIER - Liner Notes
ANDRE HODEIR - Liner Notes
DAVID NOAKES - Translation

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1997 CD Columbia/Legacy 65121
1991 CD Columbia CK-40784
1962 LP Columbia 8633
1957 LP Columbia CL-1041
1990 CD Columbia 40784
1991 CS Columbia CJT-40784
1993 CD Columbia 53225
1993 CS Columbia 53225
1997 CD Columbia 65339



Miles Davis' first collaboration with arranger Gil Evans since The Birth of the Cool recordings of 1949-50 resulted in this classic album. Reissued three times on CD (the first one, which substituted alternate takes in places, was a disaster), the third version (which came out in 1997) augments the original ten selections with four excellent and complete alternates. An advantage that this CD reissue has over the LP is that, since the music was recorded as a continuous suite, there is no break between the fifth and sixth songs. Davis' trumpet (backed by Evans' 19-piece orchestra) is heard at its best on such classics as "The Duke," "My Ship," "Miles Ahead," "Blues for Pablo" and "I Don't Wanna Be Kissed." Highly recommended for all collections.

Scott Yanow - All-Music Guide, © 1992 - 2001 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



These 1957 recordings were the first of Miles Davis's collaborations with arranger Gil Evans for Columbia, renewing a relationship that had begun with the Birth of the Cool sessions in 1949. It was perhaps the most important relationship ever forged between a jazz soloist and an arranger, for Evans excelled at finding fresh material (like Delibes's "The Maids of Cadiz") and then adding subtle voicings and blending unusual instruments to highlight Davis's central voice. Everything Evans does enhances the trumpeter's keen sense of space and his evocative sound. He could construct complex arrangements and make them fly (as on the opening "Springsville," by John Carisi), contrast Davis's voice with tuba or bass clarinet, or create the longing, Spanish-inflected "Blues for Pablo," a precursor to their later Sketches of Spain.

Stuart Broomer, Amazon.com
 

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