Miles Davis

A Tribute to Jack Johnson Combines Electric Fusion, Slashing Rock, and Aggressive Funk: 1971 Miles Davis Set Features Guitarist John McLaughlin, Sounds Vibrant on Vinyl LP

Michael Henderson launches into an enormous boogie groove with Billy Cobham and John McLaughlin. Miles immediately leaves the control room to join in with them. He achieved exactly what he wanted for the soundtrack of the documentary devoted to the black boxer Jack Johnson by creating the effect of a train going at full speed (which he compared to the force of a boxer). That's how side A of the 1971 LP A Tribute To Jack Johnson begins. By chance, Herbie Hancock had arrived unexpectedly and started playing on a cheap keyboard that a sound engineer quickly connected. Later, Teo Macero taped McLaughlin's riff on "Sing A Simple Song" by Sly Stone. Side B begins with a bass riff inspired by James Brown's "Say It Loud" and ends with "Willie Nelson," a piece recorded in a previous session. An a cappella improvisation by Miles, arranged in a variety of ways by Macero, was featured as a leitmotif throughout; a phrase spoken by Brock Peters was superimposed as a coda. Columbia didn't believe in this album and hastily released it. Today it is a cult record and strong seller.

Musicians:
Miles Davis (trumpet)
John McLaughlin (guitar)
Herbie Hancock (keyboards)
Michael Henderson (bass)
Billy Cobham (drums)
Steve Grossman (saxophone)

1. Right Off
2. Yesternow

Music On Vinyl Pressing

Tracks

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Generique (2:52)
• 2 L'assassinat de Carala (2:11)
• 3 Sur L'autoroute (2:20)
• 4 Julien Dans L'ascenseur (2:13)
• 5 Florence Sur Les Champs-Elysees (2:53)
• 6 Diner Au Motel (3:59)
• 7 Evasion de Julien (0:55)
• 8 Visite Du Vigile (2:05)
• 9 Au Bar Du Petit Bac (2:54)
• 10 Chez Le Photographe Du Mot (3:55)
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Nuit Sur Les Champs-Elysees (Take 1) (2:24)
• 2 Nuit Sur Les Champs-Elysees (Take 2) (5:22)
• 3 Nuit Sur Les Champs-Elysees (Take 3) (2:52)
• 4 Nuit Sur Les Champs Elysees (Take 4)(2:59)
• 5 Assassinat Visite Du Vigil (2:03)
• 6 Assassinat Julien Dans L'ascenseur (2:11)
• 7 Assassinat L'assassinat de Carala (2:10)
• 8 Motel (3:57)
• 9 Final (Take 1) (3:05)
• 10 Final (Take 2) (3:01)
• 11 Final (Take 3) (4:05)
• 12 Ascenseur (1:58)
• 13 Le Petit Bal (Take 1) (2:41)
• 14 Le Petit Bal (Take 2) (2:55)
• 15 Sequence Voiture (Take 1) (2:58)
• 16 Sequence Voiture Sur L'aut (Take 2) (2:18)

Regarded by many critics as the greatest jazz album of all time and Davis's masterpiece. This 1959 album's influence on music, including jazz, rock and classical, has led music writers to acknowledge it as one of the most influential albums of all time. This septet features Jazz heavyweights John Coltrane, Bill Evans and Cannonball Adderley. Newly remastered and pressed on 180g vinyl.

MILES DAVIS / MILESTONES VINYL LP Milestones is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis. It was originally released in April 1958 by Columbia Records. Milestones is one of Davis' first forays into the developing modal jazz experiments - with his composition "Milestones", listed on the original LP issue as "Miles". (This modal piece should not be confused with the earlier composition with the same title recorded by Davis and Charlie Parker in 1947.) These modal techniques were continued and expanded on the groundbreaking album Kind of Blue. It was also the last time the rhythm section of Philly Joe Jones, Red Garland and Paul Chambers played with Davis on record.[citation needed. Tenor saxophonist John Coltrane's return to Davis' group in 1958 coincided with the "modal phase" albums: Milestones and Kind of Blue (1959) are both considered essential examples of 1950s modern jazz. Davis at this point was experimenting with modes - scale patterns other than major and minor. Davis plays both trumpet and piano on "Sid's Ahead". He plays trumpet in the ensemble passages and solos on trumpet but switches to piano to accompany the saxophonists in Garland's absence. "Billy Boy" is a solo feature for Garland and the rhythm section.

• 1 Dr. Jekyll (Mono Version)
• 2 Sid's Ahead (Mono Version)
• 3 Two Bass Hit (Mono Version)
• 4 Milestones (Mono Version)
• 5 Billy Boy (Mono Version)
• 6 Straight, No Chaser (Mono Version)

The second to be issued in the classic series of Davis quintet LPs in the mid-1950s, this is yet another helping of that quintessential group's output from one of their marathon recording sessions. Relaxin' demonstrates Miles's mastery with a mute (he only plays open on Dizzy Gillespie's "Woody'n You"); the emerging talent of the young John Coltrane; and the subtlety and strength of the rhythm section, headed by pianist Red Garland.

Miles Davis Relaxin' Track Listing

1. If I Were A Bell   
2. You're My Everything   
3. I Could Write A Book   
4. Oleo   
5. It Could Happen To You   
6. Woody'n You  

2-LP Highlights Description: That's What Happened 1982-1985: Bootleg Volume 7 is the next installment in the celebrated, award-winning archival series that began in 2011, shining an in-depth light onto different eras of the legendary career of Miles Davis. In the 1980s, popular music had moved to a smoother, electronic-based sound that traded the steam of previous years for subdued arrangements meant to elicit peace and deep reflection. Miles Davis embraced this era, pulling inspiration from FM radio and an upstart music video channel called MTV. He was searching for the next frontier, letting his creativity roam. This music on The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 captures that exploration, and finds Miles beginning to re-emerge in a creative landscape far different than the one he left in 1975. He's touched every inch of pop culture while keeping true to his iconoclastic vision of jazz as amorphous art that's supposed to bend and flow and mutate to something else. On The Bootleg Series Vol. 7, we get to play in the rubble of what would become yet another period of unprecedented innovation. Beauty resides in evolution. This double LP collects highlights of Bootleg Volume 7 with over 80 minutes of unreleased studio material from 1982 to 1985 on white vinyl. Side men include a multi-generational who's who of jazz talent from JJ Johnson, Al Foster and John Scofield to Mike Stern, Marcus Miller and Daryl Jones. 2-LP White Vinyl

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Santana
• 2 Duet (Part 2)
• 3 Celestial Blues (Part 2)
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Remake of Obx Ballad
• 2 Time After Time (Alternate)
• 3 What's Love Got to Do with It
• 4 Human Nature (Alternate)
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Freaky Deaky (Vinyl Edit)
• 2 Never Loved Like This (Studio Session Demo)
• 3 Hopscotch (Fast)
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Intro
• 2 Katia (Full Session)