Much More Miles February 8, 2008
Posted by Tom Moore in : Uncategorized , trackbackI posted here last fall about a newly-released collection of live sessions by the great Miles Davis (Miles Davis: The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 - CD 15434). The Music Library has now added another retrospective box, this time of studio recordings from the first half of the 1970s (The Complete On the Corner Sessions). Where the classic “In a Silent Way” (also in a box, The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions, CD 8173) was meditative, lyrical, tranquil, beautiful, much of the music Miles made in the period before he took an extended break from playing and recording in the mid-seventies was loud, aggressive, in your face, exploring the beauty of ugliness, and exploiting hot repetitive rhythms. If In a Silent Way was Yin, On the Corner was Yang with a vengeance, reflecting the conflict of the struggles of the day, and the violence of the war in Vietnam. Not everything in the box is at the highest level, but some of it is not to be missed (check out the churning funk of “Rated X”, originally issued on the LP “Get up with it”.) Miles’s sidemen include Herbie Hancock and John McLaughlin, with many others.
Miles Davis, The Complete On the Corner Sessions - CD-15529
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