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Title: The Essential Miles Davis
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The Essential Miles Davis double-CD--with tracks from the Savoy, Capitol, Blue Note, Prestige, Columbia and Warner Bros labels from 1945 to 1986--is an excellent sampler of Miles Davis's limitless creative genius. It features a who's who of the greatest names in the music: drummers Max Roach, Philly Joe Jones and Jimmy Cobb; bassists Paul Chambers and Ron Carter; pianists Red Garland, Bill Evans and Herbie Hancock; alto and tenor saxophonists Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter. Davis's middle-register trumpet fitted a myriad of styles, from the bebop classic "Now's the Time" to the Snow White waltz "Someday My Prince Will Come" to the modal masterpiece "So What" (from Kind of Blue). Just as Duke Ellington had Billy Strayhorn, Davis had the gifted arranger Gil Evans. Evans created ingenious stringless orchestral soundscapes around Davis's pithy and personal sound on Ahmad Jamal's "New Rhumba" from Miles Ahead, the in-the-pocket swing of Gershwin's "Summertime" from Porgy & Bess and the Moorish melodies of "The Pan Piper" from Sketches of Spain. Other classic tracks include the sophisticated classicism of "Jeru" from the 1949-50 Birth of the Cool nonets, the spectral and spare "Générique" from the soundtrack to the 1957 French film Ascenseur pour L'Echafaud and his romantic rendition of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time". In this set, Miles lives. --Eugene Holley Jr
Format: CD
Artist: Miles Davis
No Of Discs: 2
Record Label: Sony TV
EAN: 5099750304594

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