Audio CD review:
Miles Davis - The Essential Miles Davis

Miles Davis - The Essential Miles Davis

Band: Miles Davis Title: The Essential Miles Davis Rating: Release Date: 15 May, 2001 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Now's the Time 2: Jeru 3: Compulsion 4: Tempus Fugit 5: Walkin' 6: 'Round About Midnight 7: Bye Bye Blackbird 8: New Rhumba 9: Generique 10: Summertime 11: So What 12: The Pan Piper 13: Someday My Prince Will Come 14: My Funny Valentine 15: E.S.P. 16: Nefertiti 17: Petits Machins 18: Miles Runs The Voodoo Down 19: Little Church 20: Black Satin 21: Jean Pierre 22: Time After Time 23: Portia

Editoral Review This two-CD set--with tracks from the Savoy, Capitol, Blue Note, Prestige, Columbia, and Warner Bros. Trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis was a major catalyst for the evolution of modern music. labels from 1945 to 1986--is an excellent sampler of his limitless creative genius. It features a who's who of the greatest names in the music: drummers Max Roach, Philly Joe Jones, and Jimmy Cobb; bassists Paul Chambers and Ron Carter; pianists Red Garland, Bill Evans, and Herbie Hancock; and alto and tenor saxophonists Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, and Wayne Shorter. Davis's middle-register trumpet accommodated a myriad of styles, from the bebop classic "Now's the Time" to the Snow White waltz "Someday My Prince Will Come" to the modal masterpiece "So What" (from Kind of Blue). Just as Duke Ellington had Billy Strayhorn, Davis had the gifted arranger Gil Evans. Evans created ingenious stringless orchestral soundscapes around Davis's pithy and personal sound on Ahmad Jamal's "New Rhumba" from Miles Ahead, the in-the-pocket swing of Gershwin's "Summertime" from Porgy & Bess, and the Moorish melodies of "The Pan Piper" from Sketches of Spain. Other classic tracks include the sophisticated classicism of "Jeru" from the 1949-50 Birth of the Cool nonets, the spectral and spare "Générique" from the soundtrack to the 1957 French film Ascenseur pour L'Echafaud, and his romantic rendition of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time. " Simply put, Miles lives. --Eugene Holley Jr. .. You can see a complete list of all Miles Davis discography, or go back to the Miles Davis tabs