Love Love LOVE this period of Miles. Staggering genius stuff. Timeless really. I vibe out to On the Corner the most. It’s funking corrosive like crime on the streets but so mind-expanding. Teo deserves about as much credit as Miles for the innovative way he edits those tapes. Both of those guys were way ahead of their time.
In A Silent Way was my first Miles LP. I found a used copy in a record store in Toronto back in like 05, I picked it up because something about the dark, brooding look on his face on the cover caught my eye. Put it on when I got back home to the States and the rest is history. I was hooked. I love his early stuff, but I think his electric period is just magical, especially A Tribute to Jack Johnson and Big Fun...
The Cellar Door recordings, where most of Live-Evil is poached, is a treasure trove. On line last record day to score “Turnaround” (On the Corner outtakes.) Big Fun is Fab.
Cheers Andy for another exceptional vid. Ah Miles electric period. What a time of musical genius. My fave is Jack Johnson where Johnny Mc is out of control. Interestingly Jeff Beck ranks this album in his top ten of all time !!
When I was a late teenager I really wanted something heavy but different then heavy metal. By this time I did have bitches brew which I liked, but was a little too complex for my ears, I wanted to hear a combination of hard rock and jazz. I had heard people talk about the term fusion. So I thought that’s all what fusion was I wound up buying a couple of Albums that sounded nothing. Like what I was looking for and then I found Jack Johnson which is exactly what I was looking for. I have that album framed on my wall because I still love the heaviness of it.
I have seen an interview with Teo where he says that Miles never left him with a completed album. It was a series of jams then left up to Teo to splice bits and pieces together to make the song or track., hence the often abrupt changes.
There's so much information on several of his electric albums. Enough so that any one of them could be a favorite... maybe depending how much listening time you put in. The relaxed tripping and rich textures along with the searing guitar work on Agharta put it near the top for me. On The Corner is also amazingly narcotic, maybe his peak use of JB/Sly and the Family Stone elements in his catalog... it got 2 and a half stars in Downbeat.
One of my absolute favorite periods of Miles Davis and Musical exploration. All most excellent! Also remember Live at Fillmore, Black Beauty, Dark Magus. Also loved Bill Laswell's work...I think they should have let him remix and release all of Mile's music from this time period on a 10 CD set. I would buy it!!!
Willi part 2 on dark magus is one of my favorite tracks from this period. Its so moody and psychedelic. The groove is is so dark, and every solo is amazing and different.
Just stumbled upon your channel while looking for Miles Davis content. I love what you're doing! Needless to say, new subscriber here! Keep up the great work and cheers!
I've been diving into miles davis the past few weeks. Been listening to his mid 60s stuff and his fusion works. The album that grabbed me immediately is live evil. I think it's incredible and fairly easy to get into. Bitches brew is a bit more of a difficult listen in my opinion. I also love Filles De Kilimanjaro.
Thanks Andy, learned so much from this video. I have vinyl of most of these releases but not the live releases and CD box sets, will definitely be picking these up. Very interesting on all levels.
I didn’t know about that Miles Davis in concert album, that’s going on the wish list. Great video - I can’t speak highly enough about this period, I love it so much. Album after album of absolute heaters of so many varieties. It’s impossible to pick a favourite - on the corner, in a silent way, big fun, bitches brew, jack johnson, I love them all for different reasons. Get up with it was the one that really took me to the moon though. I had and loved in a silent way, but it was get up with it that showed me the range and depth of the grooves Miles extracted from his band, which then Teo stitched together. I can listen to that album 100 times and be surprised every time.
For me, it’s Jack Johnson and In A Silent Way. Love them all, but these two are the ones I go back to most often. Zappa was also a pioneer of editing, which I’m sure you’re aware of.
I keep going back to Big Fun and especially The tunes Great Expectations and Go Ahead John. I love Bitches Brew but Great Expectations seems to distill everything that is amazing about that album into one track. And Go Ahead John is McLaughlin in outer space. It surpasses anything on Jack Johnson for me (and I think Jack Johnson is one of the greatest albums of all time) But of course it's hard to distinguish these albums, they are all such high quality
That was a very interesting summary of this period of Miles's music.. For those who want to take it further I recommend a book called The Last Miles subtitled The Music of Miles Davis 1980-1991 by George Cole. He covers all of the albums musicians and history of this period. On The Corner was Miles's attempt to break into the younger market for funk artists like James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone. It was not a commercial success however and Herbie Hancock stole his thunder later with the Headhunters album that did just that.
I find it quite funny that Miles though On The Corner would break into that market. I think Bitches Brew sold well because it reached those LSD dropping Grateful Dead fans that wanted to go further out. But by 1973 the younger market wanted Howard Melvin and the Blue Notes...
I believe "Live at Fillmore" came out at about the same time as Jack Johnson and Black Beauty(?) It would also be amazing if Bill Laswell could go back and do a 10 CD remix of all the 70's Miles music!!!
Great work, Andy, on a massively important and influential period of Davis’s career. Most of those albums still sound fresh today, with all of them being ahead-of-their-time when released. I frankly don’t think that it reflects well on the ‘straight’ jazz world that these albums are still misunderstood, controversial, dismissed, etc. Simply put, jazz critics of the day lacked the framework to assess this music. Not only did they disdain the music, but they loathed the process that Teo Macero adopted of recording jams and then editing them into musical pieces afterwards. That just wasn’t the jazz way of doing things, was it? Prior to Davis/Macero, the rock world was far in advance of the jazz world in terms of using the studio as a creative instrument. What Brian Wilson did on ‘Pet Sounds’ and The Beatles and George Martin did on ‘Revolver’ had no counterpart in jazz in ’66. A few years later, these Miles Davis albums lurched jazz into the vanguard in process as well as product. (At around the same time, the German band Can were utilizing a similar recording process.) Whichever way you look at it, the period you cover here has served as a blueprint for various styles of music to emerge in the subsequent decades.
Great vid! Thanks!! That "I'm Concert" is great!! Electric sitar on it! Love "Pangaea" a little more than "Agharta", actually. My fave is not a fan favorite "Dark Magus" 💯🎯
many thanks for this and the vids about Mahavishnu/McLaughlin & Weather Report! would love to see the same about Herbie Hancock's work from the 70's & 80's and Return To Forever..... :)
Great book on this topic >>> MILES BEYOND by Paul Tingen. It took 25 years for me to like Bitches Brew...bought it in 1976, did not like. 1999, I got a deal on the box. Liked BB ever since. At 18, BB was just too dense, too free, too...everything?!? Sometimes, you just to keep trying until it sticks. :-0
On The Corner is my favourite Miles album of all time. It's sublime!
Love Love LOVE this period of Miles. Staggering genius stuff. Timeless really. I vibe out to On the Corner the most. It’s funking corrosive like crime on the streets but so mind-expanding. Teo deserves about as much credit as Miles for the innovative way he edits those tapes. Both of those guys were way ahead of their time.
I’m not a huge jazz guy but miles was a real genius
Love your videos Andy 😁
Live-Evil is my favorite MD album of the 70's. It marks the peak of his electric imagination.
In A Silent Way was my first Miles LP. I found a used copy in a record store in Toronto back in like 05, I picked it up because something about the dark, brooding look on his face on the cover caught my eye. Put it on when I got back home to the States and the rest is history. I was hooked. I love his early stuff, but I think his electric period is just magical, especially A Tribute to Jack Johnson and Big Fun...
Yes..and Big Fun is as great as Bitches or Jack Johnson IMO.
Silent Way Sessions Box is fantastic
The Cellar Door recordings, where most of Live-Evil is poached, is a treasure trove.
On line last record day to score “Turnaround” (On the Corner outtakes.) Big Fun is Fab.
Cheers Andy for another exceptional vid. Ah Miles electric period. What a time of musical genius. My fave is Jack Johnson where Johnny Mc is out of control. Interestingly Jeff Beck ranks this album in his top ten of all time !!
When I was a late teenager I really wanted something heavy but different then heavy metal. By this time I did have bitches brew which I liked, but was a little too complex for my ears, I wanted to hear a combination of hard rock and jazz. I had heard people talk about the term fusion. So I thought that’s all what fusion was I wound up buying a couple of Albums that sounded nothing. Like what I was looking for and then I found Jack Johnson which is exactly what I was looking for. I have that album framed on my wall because I still love the heaviness of it.
i favourite miles davis era.
The Cellar Door Sessions showed the vision Live..with Michael Henderson on electric bass
I have seen an interview with Teo where he says that Miles never left him with a completed album. It was a series of jams then left up to Teo to splice bits and pieces together to make the song or track., hence the often abrupt changes.
Man, this is just what I was looking for. I love this period and I’m starting to dig deep.
There out is not much knowlage about Miles Davis in 70`s and 80`s, thanks man,👍
good evening I started listening to miles davis during this period.
There's so much information on several of his electric albums. Enough so that any one of them could be a favorite... maybe depending how much listening time you put in. The relaxed tripping and rich textures along with the searing guitar work on Agharta put it near the top for me. On The Corner is also amazingly narcotic, maybe his peak use of JB/Sly and the Family Stone elements in his catalog... it got 2 and a half stars in Downbeat.
One of my absolute favorite periods of Miles Davis and Musical exploration. All most excellent! Also remember Live at Fillmore, Black Beauty, Dark Magus. Also loved Bill Laswell's work...I think they should have let him remix and release all of Mile's music from this time period on a 10 CD set. I would buy it!!!
Willi part 2 on dark magus is one of my favorite tracks from this period. Its so moody and psychedelic. The groove is is so dark, and every solo is amazing and different.
I have deep down into his discography on the last months and this period has became my favorite. Love Filles de Kilimanjaro and Beatches Brew.
Just stumbled upon your channel while looking for Miles Davis content. I love what you're doing! Needless to say, new subscriber here! Keep up the great work and cheers!
Just what I needed, much appreciated.
You're welcome!
I've been diving into miles davis the past few weeks. Been listening to his mid 60s stuff and his fusion works. The album that grabbed me immediately is live evil. I think it's incredible and fairly easy to get into. Bitches brew is a bit more of a difficult listen in my opinion. I also love Filles De Kilimanjaro.
I've never been a huge fan of B Brew. Live Evil, On The Corner and Jack Johnson are the ones that do it for me
Thanks Andy, learned so much from this video. I have vinyl of most of these releases but not the live releases and CD box sets, will definitely be picking these up. Very interesting on all levels.
Really interesting video and particularly how this period influenced other genres....and Happy Birthday
Thanks David
I didn’t know about that Miles Davis in concert album, that’s going on the wish list. Great video - I can’t speak highly enough about this period, I love it so much. Album after album of absolute heaters of so many varieties. It’s impossible to pick a favourite - on the corner, in a silent way, big fun, bitches brew, jack johnson, I love them all for different reasons. Get up with it was the one that really took me to the moon though. I had and loved in a silent way, but it was get up with it that showed me the range and depth of the grooves Miles extracted from his band, which then Teo stitched together. I can listen to that album 100 times and be surprised every time.
For me, it’s Jack Johnson and In A Silent Way. Love them all, but these two are the ones I go back to most often.
Zappa was also a pioneer of editing, which I’m sure you’re aware of.
I keep going back to Big Fun and especially The tunes Great Expectations and Go Ahead John. I love Bitches Brew but Great Expectations seems to distill everything that is amazing about that album into one track. And Go Ahead John is McLaughlin in outer space. It surpasses anything on Jack Johnson for me (and I think Jack Johnson is one of the greatest albums of all time) But of course it's hard to distinguish these albums, they are all such high quality
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer I’m gonna do some deep listening to Great Expectations. It’s been a while.
That was a very interesting summary of this period of Miles's music.. For those who want to take it further I recommend a book called The Last Miles subtitled The Music of Miles Davis 1980-1991 by George Cole. He covers all of the albums musicians and history of this period. On The Corner was Miles's attempt to break into the younger market for funk artists like James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone. It was not a commercial success however and Herbie Hancock stole his thunder later with the Headhunters album that did just that.
I find it quite funny that Miles though On The Corner would break into that market. I think Bitches Brew sold well because it reached those LSD dropping Grateful Dead fans that wanted to go further out. But by 1973 the younger market wanted Howard Melvin and the Blue Notes...
god I love this channel..I have a lot of these on cd but there,s always more. Just scored live at the Fillmore from an Oxfam shop...3£!
I never find stuff like that in charity shops!
Agharta is a cosmic recording, far, far ahead of its time. So far ahead that its time hasn't arrived.
To me there is no greater instrumental music than the box sets of Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson, & On the Corner, I've looked and I just can't find any!!
I believe "Live at Fillmore" came out at about the same time as Jack Johnson and Black Beauty(?) It would also be amazing if Bill Laswell could go back and do a 10 CD remix of all the 70's Miles music!!!
Great overview
awesome
Great work, Andy, on a massively important and influential period of Davis’s career. Most of those albums still sound fresh today, with all of them being ahead-of-their-time when released. I frankly don’t think that it reflects well on the ‘straight’ jazz world that these albums are still misunderstood, controversial, dismissed, etc. Simply put, jazz critics of the day lacked the framework to assess this music. Not only did they disdain the music, but they loathed the process that Teo Macero adopted of recording jams and then editing them into musical pieces afterwards. That just wasn’t the jazz way of doing things, was it? Prior to Davis/Macero, the rock world was far in advance of the jazz world in terms of using the studio as a creative instrument. What Brian Wilson did on ‘Pet Sounds’ and The Beatles and George Martin did on ‘Revolver’ had no counterpart in jazz in ’66. A few years later, these Miles Davis albums lurched jazz into the vanguard in process as well as product. (At around the same time, the German band Can were utilizing a similar recording process.) Whichever way you look at it, the period you cover here has served as a blueprint for various styles of music to emerge in the subsequent decades.
Great vid! Thanks!!
That "I'm Concert" is great!! Electric sitar on it!
Love "Pangaea" a little more than "Agharta", actually.
My fave is not a fan favorite "Dark Magus" 💯🎯
'In Concert' is the one no one talks about. I never have quite known why....
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Yeah! And it's great! It's accessible, but not at the sake of creative it is both!
John McLoffin ??
many thanks for this and the vids about Mahavishnu/McLaughlin & Weather Report! would love to see the same about Herbie Hancock's work from the 70's & 80's and Return To Forever..... :)
I'm about to a video on Chick Corea which will cover Weather Report and Herbie seems obvious to do as well...
Great book on this topic >>> MILES BEYOND by Paul Tingen.
It took 25 years for me to like Bitches Brew...bought it in 1976, did not like. 1999, I got a deal on the box. Liked BB ever since.
At 18, BB was just too dense, too free, too...everything?!? Sometimes, you just to keep trying until it sticks. :-0
Same here but took about 6 months.
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer You have bigger ears than me. :-)
Ascension was no joke, either.
Boy, are those album covers off-putting. I’d expect nothing less from Miles Davis.