Daddy Dee Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 Friends, I'm interested in acquiring a few Miles Davis CD's. Have only Kind of Blue and love it. I'm not doing vinyl, so thanks for good thoughts from the folks already in polyvinyl nirvana. Any recommendations and comments are appreciated. any non MD recommendations also welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garymd Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 Way too many to list Dee, but try these three for starters. Can't miss. Seven Steps To Heaven Someday My Prince Will Come Something Else (Cannonball Adderley w/Miles Davis) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JL Sargent Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 I love just about any Jazz from that 50s/60s era except MD himself. I don't know why that is either. I do think that listening to music is a journey and it's especially true with Jazz. Maybe Miles just isn't part of my musical journey? Anyway, I really enjoy John Coltrane (he worked with Miles on Kind of Blue). John recorded "Giant Steps" shortly after. Another great one is "Blue Train" by John Coltrane. Below are couple of examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR9ixWP-P9I http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=Auhs_TAwTzj.3uUb9ct.1tixulI6?p=John+Coltrane%27s+best+selling+album&fr=ush-mailn Now you did say non MD recommendations welcome, right? [] One of my favorites by the legendary Bill Evans Trio: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JL Sargent Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 For a Bill Evans CD try "Sunday at the Village Vanguard" recorded in 1961. A great live Jazz recording IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mungkiman Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 We Want Miles is a double album recorded by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis in 1981, produced by Teo Macero and released by Columbia Records in 1982. The album features one of the first live appearances by Davis in more than five years, at Boston's Kix Club, on June 27, 1981. Other tracks are recorded at Avery Fisher Hall, New York, on July 5, and in Tokyo, October 4 of that year. First released on CD in Japan as a two-disc set (CBS/Sony CSCS 5131/5132), subsequent CD releases fit the music onto one disc. Columbia Records have never released it on CD in North America. This album won the 1982 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance by a Soloist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornman Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 For me there all good before "******* Brew",,ymmf,,if you like expermental -Be Bop style his laterworkis for you.Some of my other faves are- Ascenseur pour Lechafaud Sketches of Spain Round midnight Steaming & of course the other for mentioned collaborations --Fantastic Welcome to the world of "Miles" Daddy D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 Don't overlook At Carnegie Hall and In Europe. Both are live recordings and the best of Miles is always live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted July 17, 2012 Author Share Posted July 17, 2012 Thank you gentlemen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RT FAN Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Milestones! [H] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallette Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Well, DD, kept wondering why "Kind of Blue" hadn't been mentioned until I got to your original post. The copy of that one I have is "vinyl good" and one of the best CD's technically I've ever heard. And I DO vinyl...wouldn't be a bit better in this case. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odysseyrevolver Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Miles Smiles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tk49 Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Miles Davis, The Complete Concert, My Funny Valentine w/Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, George Coleman and Tony Williams Recorded live at Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Hall in 1964 Columbia/Legacy C2K 48821 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardP Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 A MD album that departs from the early 50s-60s jazz quartet style is "Amandla" (1989) which is one of his jazz fusion efforts. To me, it is far more accessible than "******* Brew," i.e. more melodic, and is among his more contemporary sounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornman Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Mallette, I would really like to know which pressing of "Kind of Blue" you are using. K.B. is one of my all time favorite, & I have at least 3 different recordings. - ck40579 & ck64935 being the most recent redo? There all good to my ear but defiantly engineered different. Cornman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magneto_Plasmoid Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Miles In The Sky is another great one, so many other greats already mentioned here, but I also just have to say Kind of Blue is not only the best jazz album I have ever heard, but possibly one of the greatest albums... ever. Chris Botti is another great jazz artist if you are looking to expand a little. Night Sessions (2001) is a great album of his to get started on, considering his biggest influence was Miles Davis, he should also be right up your alley. Midnight Without You and A Thousand Kisses Deep are other standouts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallette Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Mallette, I would really like to know which pressing of "Kind of Blue" you are using. I THINK it's Jazz Heritage Society. I'm at work. I'll try to remember to look it up. Incredible cymbal reality which really showed it's possible to have high freq performance on CD and that most of the issues we hear with them are engineering failures more than format failures. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornman Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 My latest's is "Columbia Jazz Masterpieces", as you say the cymbal's shimmer. Cornman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennie Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Lots of great recommendations. [Y] I think this is a great set, at a great price. It's under $40.00.... [] Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions [box set, Original recording remastered] Miles Davis 2006 Amazon.com So which was the greater Miles Davis quintet, the legendary postbop band of the '60s featuring Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams and Ron Carter or the proto-bebop unit of the '50s featuring the emerging John Coltrane? As properly celebrated as the former is, a strong argument can be made for the latter, which in pouring out five albums' worth of material for Prestige in three marathon sessions (to fulfill a contract) took the group aesthetic to dazzling heights--and has been endlessly imitated ever since. Driven by the rhythm section of Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Jones, this band was a remarkable blend of whiplash power and airy emotion--not always perfect or polished, but with the sublimely contained Davis and fiercely uncontainable Coltrane playing off each other, always eventful. (The familiar songs include "Oleo," "If I Were a Bell," "Four" and "My Funny Valentine.") To entice those who already own Chronicles: The Complete Prestige Recordings (1951-1956) or the individual quintet albums (including "Cookin'" and "Relaxin'"), The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions offers a bonus disc featuring previously unrecorded radio and TV performances from 1955-58 of acceptable sound quality. Two tracks are from a 1955 installment of The Tonight Show with Steve Allen (whose hipster reputation is retroactively diminished by his painfully square remarks). An intriguing later track, pointing toward Kind of Blue, features Bill Evans at the piano. The enhanced portion of disc four includes transcriptions of five Davis solos. Though the package's cover painting by Davis won't make anyone forget Picasso, the 40-page booklet boasts characteristically incisive notes by Bob Blumenthal. --Lloyd Sachs Amazon Link ------> CLICK HERE Dennie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallette Posted July 19, 2012 Share Posted July 19, 2012 My latest's is "Columbia Jazz Masterpieces", as you say the cymbal's shimmer. Cornman [Y] Nice to know someone else noticed. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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