Miles Davis Appreciation Thread

Oh OK. Oh well. I'm hoping that since they released "Bitches Brew Live", which I haven't checked out yet, as well as "It's About That Time" a while back, they'll do a posthumous album for the mid-70s band with Pete Cosey.

Yea, I don't have any of the box-sets, so i guess that's a good avenue to try. On The Corner box set has better ratings than the album proper, hah. The Cellar Door Sessions seem good too, though that's more on the Live-Evil side of things I think.

But are there any more live stuff from that mid-70s era??

So I've been going through all my Miles albums lately, and I've gotten a new appreciation for the mid-70s albums Get Up With It, Dark Magus, Agharta, and Pangaea. I've been craving more, though. Are there any more albums from this era of Miles' electric era??

Nothing like throwing on Relaxin' on a late, warm Spring afternoon.

Miles Ahead has really grown on me since I bought it a month or so ago. Real beautiful big band music. Once again, best listened to at night, as with most Miles music. I definitely put it up there with Kind of Blue and Birth Of The Cool, as it has that mystical feeling that the other 2 albums have.

I agree that they are better, "Brew" is a very talented jam session, but there isn't much vision or composition. Meanwhile, tunes like "Great Expectations" on "Big Fun" were a whole new thing that explored a different side to music.

I like those two, I was going to list some more favorites, but really, almost the entire album is my favorite. I can remember listening to this way back and thinking this was like no other music I heard before, including all the avant-garde jazz up to that point.

Miles pre-dated many future trends in music with that one.

I love that one too, definitely a wonderful album - If I Were a Bell is one of my all time fav pieces from Miles

I was at a party the other night, I stayed very late. Around 3:30am, someone put on Relaxin' and it was perfect music.