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• Amazon Sales Rank: #153348 in Music
• Released on: 2007-05-03
• Number of discs: 4
• Format: Best of
• Dimensions: .50 pounds

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By 1965 Miles Davis had gone through a handful of stages, from the Birth of the Cool nonet's multihued orchestrations to the development of a hard-bop sound keeled on Davis's midregister wooziness and the band's driving backbone in the "first" great quintet (featuring John Coltrane), to the modal freedom of Kind of Blue. So when the solidly established Davis convened a new quintet, known as his "second" great one, and hired youngsters Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams, it seemed a skewed move. These six CDs show just how creatively and intelligently skewed the move really was. The material here, which has also been reissued on expanded single CDs of the main full-length original LPs (E.S.P., Miles Smiles, Sorcerer, Nefertiti, Miles in the Sky), is immediately and unceasingly startling. Davis & Co. were quickly discarding their live performance practice of playing loads of standards and were further discarding traditional melodic structures for more rigorous harmonic exercises. Shorter in particular, at times the most prolific composer in the band, was advancing his tunes and his solos in equal proportion. The tunes are increasingly sharp-edged and, with Williams driving the band with a categorical balance of abandon and control, loopily energized. Miles blows with tighter and tighter control of his tone even while the band seems to be finding all kinds of expressive freedoms that easily elongate into lengthier studies. Toward the end of this box, you'll hear the seeds of the Miles that went on to unloose Bitches Brew. Even though the roots of the aggressively electric Miles are in these sessions, there are uncategorizable points of beauty strewn all over the tunes. --Andrew Bartlett

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Six CD, sept heures vingt et une minutes de musique, vingt-sept séances en studio, cinquante-six plages remixées parmi lesquelles huit secondes prises inédites et quatre répétitions d'orchestre soit l'une des périodes les plus créatives de Miles Davis sur un plan strictement musical. Wayne Shorter a rejoint son nouveau quintette en septembre 1964 pour enregistrer E.S.P., Miles Smiles, Sorcerer et Nefertiti, inoubliables chefs-d'oeuvre. Wayne apporte ses propres compositions. Miles les arrange et les joue avec son groupe – Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter et Tony Williams en sont les autres musiciens –, invente un jazz modal et libre, une musique abstraite et nouvelle. En septembre 1967, Miles réunit son équipe pour une séance expérimentale, la première de son futur parcours électrique. À la guitare, Joe Beck. Hancock joue du célesta. Les magnétophones tournent plus d'une demi-heure, gardent en mémoire "Circle In The Round", pour la première fois publié ici dans sa version complète, une pièce plus simple sur le plan de la forme, un long ostinato mis en boucle. Miles va peu à peu changer la couleur de sa musique, les instruments électriques lui apporter d'autres sonorités. En 1968 commencent ainsi les séances d'un nouvel album, Filles de Kilimanjaro. Au cours de l'enregistrement Ron Carter et Herbie Hancock quittent le quintette. Dave Holland et Chick Corea les remplacent pour d'autres aventures. --Pierre de Chocqueuse

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Japanese limited edition 20bit mastered 6 CD box set. Limited edition for initial pressing only. Pre order basis only!