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MILES DAVIS

BALLADS & BLUES (LP) (LTD)
Label JAZZTWIN
Catalog 50008
Format LP
Discs 1
Category JAZZ/BLUES/COUNTRY
Street Date 2017-12-28
Description
・ LIMITED COLLECTOR’S EDITIONS
・ NEWLY REMASTERED
・ OUTSTANDING NEW COVERS
・ DIRECT METAL MASTERING
・ 180g LP - AUDIOPHILE PRESSING
One of the most important and influential figures in jazz history Miles Davis’s sound on the trumpet was completely identifiable due in part to his use of the Harmon mute. It gave him a personal and intimate style which was soft and melodious and frequently led to lyricism and introspection. He was superb at playing ballads and some of his best studio recordings of the genre can be found here along with some of his best blues performances. Since its start in the early 1940s Miles Davis’ professional career in music continued in constant evolution (an evolution which didn’t stop until his death on September 28 1991). However his works after the mid-1960s were almost exclusively focused on the fusion of jazz with rock and electronic music. Thus Miles only rarely played ballads in the style we find here; a style which was his alone as stated by jazz critic Robert Levin in 1965: “The way Davis plays is particularly suited to the mood for which this album is designed. His concepts of space and time -the manner in which he plays against the rhythm and chooses to play those notes which somehow unerringly grasp a devastating nuance has an exquisite delicacy an elegant fragility and are amply demonstrated on the ballads he recorded in the 1950s. It is always difficult to imagine a song being interpreted in any other way after hearing a Miles Davis reading of it.”

MILES DAVIS trumpet on all tracks plus:
A1 & B2: JOHN COLTRANE tenor sax; RED GARLAND piano; PAUL CHAMBERS bass; PHILLY JOE JONES drums. Hackensack New Jersey May 11 1956.
A2 & B3: Same personnel and location October 26 1956.
A3: Same personnel. New York September 10 1956.
A4: Same personnel as A1-A3 & B2-B3. New York June 5 1956.
B1: SONNY ROLLINS tenor sax; TOMMY FLANAGAN piano; PAUL CHAMBERS bass; ART TAYLOR drums. Hackensack New Jersey March 16 1956.
tracklisting
Side A: The Ballads
1. IT NEVER ENTERED MY MIND (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart)
2. MY FUNNY VALENTINE (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart)
3. ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT (Thelonious Monk)
4. BYE BYE BLACKBIRD (Mort Dixon-Ray Henderson)
Side B: The Blues
1. VIERD BLUES (Miles Davis)
2. TRANE’S BLUES (John Coltrane)
3. BLUES BY FIVE (Red Garland)
 

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