Audio CD review:
Miles Davis - Get Up with It

Miles Davis - Get Up with It

Band: Miles Davis Title: Get Up with It Rating: Release Date: 01 August, 2000 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: He Loved Him Madly 2: Maiysha 3: Honky Tonk 4: Rated X 5: Calypso Frelimo 6: Red China Blues 7: Mtume 8: Billy Preston

Editoral Review Though something of a mixed bag, the disc does contain two of Davis's most important compositions. Issued just before Miles Davis entered the dark years of his retirement in 1975, Get Up with It includes tracks recorded between 1970 and 1975, and offers a roster of stars from throughout that period: Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, John McLaughlin, Dave Liebman, Steve Grossman, Sonny Fortune, Pete Cosey, Billy Cobham, and Al Foster. "He Loved Him Madly," dedicated to Duke Ellington, is a slow, almost novelistically developed meditation on Ellington's life and work, more than 30 minutes of music. "Rated X" is a buzzing, rattling essay on studio minimalism, and one that prophetically links world music and hip-hop, even before there was a name for such repetitive, incremental musics. Among the other tracks here, "Calypso Frelimo" offers some splendid Davis trumpet, a corrective for those who thought he had lost it by that time. Now digitally remastered, with a brighter sound, Get Up with It seems something of a summing up of Davis's great electrical period of 1970-1975. But it also hints at things to come when he made his comeback in the 1980s. --John F. Szwed .. You can see a complete list of all Miles Davis discography, or go back to the Miles Davis tabs