JMA Top 5

^ heh, it's not much different.

I take the Fifth 

dreadpirateroberts wrote: idlero wrote: I was 'blocked', I found it too 'heavy' for me,even today it's not on my top 10 or even 20.At that time I enjoyed Bill Evans, Ben Webster, Dave Brubeck , EST I can see that, as coming from EST and Bill, Dave etc. It's kinda one hell of a rich-sounding album too, and 'heavy' I find a fitting word, it is at that. What's your top Miles album, idlero?

idlero wrote: I was 'blocked', I found it too 'heavy' for me,even today it's not on my top 10 or even 20.At that time I enjoyed Bill Evans, Ben Webster, Dave Brubeck , EST

I can see that, as coming from EST and Bill, Dave etc. It's kinda one hell of a rich-sounding album too, and 'heavy' I find a fitting word, it is at that.

What's your top Miles album, idlero?

MilesBeyond wrote: IASW is one of those albums I've never appreciated as much as other people seem to... I love it, without a doubt, but I don't seem to have the same passion for it a lot of other jazzers do. When I want electric Miles, I usually end up reaching for Bitches Brew.

I end up reaching for BB when I'm after electric too - but also for a bit of darkness I guess!

^ Those two often fight it out for number one, huh?

js wrote: dreadpirateroberts wrote: Good point, Mike. I also often wonder whether Benson and Miles could have done more together, or whether their styles don't seem like a natural fit?  Actually no, rather, that some aspects of their respective styles weren't a fit? I have heard that Benson didn't care for the lifestyle and drug use. Benson tends to be a clean religious man.

There might be really some trial and error before McLaughlin joined it. Benson does not really do the performance that exploded very much. As for it, Benson seems to be looking for the place to stay of own definitely. However, as a result, "In The Sky" may have a certain experimental element. And I feel that the performance that does not harmonize acts well.

dreadpirateroberts wrote: Kazuhiro wrote: Sean Trane wrote: Kazuhiro wrote: ^ I think "In The Sky" and "Kilimanjaro" to be indispensable to study these a series of situation likewise. A thought and the expression that Miles went before to enter into in the 70s are very remarkable with these albums. I feel that these are not at all incompletions to BB album.   I tend to slide in Miles In The Sky between Kilimandjaro and IASW, in Miles' electric progression   As the artwork hints, it's got a certain kind psych quality to it, that brings it rather close to BB     I think Miles to have always found new music. And it is a fact to have recognized the musician such as Jimi and Sly equally. Probably he would take all in. Album art of In The Sky. As for the contest by George Benson and Keith Jarrett likewise. It would be thrown all open by the filter which lasted of Miles.   I agree   I remember seeing the Miles in the Sky cover and thinking it would be good, just based on the image (i know, nevr judg a book...)

I love Miles In The Sky. Thing is, aside from the first track which is a nice slice of early fusion, and the inclusion of guitarist George Benson on track 2, it's still more or less the avant-garde post-bop of his second great quintet on tracks 2, 3, and 4. Filles... is half post-bop and half fusion, and then In A Silent Way is Miles going full force into fusion, albeit on the mellower side. It wouldn't be until the following album Bitches Brew where Miles' exploration of fusion exploded.

Kazuhiro wrote: Sean Trane wrote: Kazuhiro wrote: ^ I think "In The Sky" and "Kilimanjaro" to be indispensable to study these a series of situation likewise. A thought and the expression that Miles went before to enter into in the 70s are very remarkable with these albums. I feel that these are not at all incompletions to BB album.   I tend to slide in Miles In The Sky between Kilimandjaro and IASW, in Miles' electric progression   As the artwork hints, it's got a certain kind psych quality to it, that brings it rather close to BB     I think Miles to have always found new music. And it is a fact to have recognized the musician such as Jimi and Sly equally. Probably he would take all in. Album art of In The Sky. As for the contest by George Benson and Keith Jarrett likewise. It would be thrown all open by the filter which lasted of Miles.

Sean Trane wrote: Kazuhiro wrote: ^ I think "In The Sky" and "Kilimanjaro" to be indispensable to study these a series of situation likewise. A thought and the expression that Miles went before to enter into in the 70s are very remarkable with these albums. I feel that these are not at all incompletions to BB album.   I tend to slide in Miles In The Sky between Kilimandjaro and IASW, in Miles' electric progression   As the artwork hints, it's got a certain kind psych quality to it, that brings it rather close to BB