Audio CD review:
Miles Davis - The Cellar Door Sessions 1970

Miles Davis - The Cellar Door Sessions 1970

Band: Miles Davis Title: The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 Rating: Release Date: 20 December, 2005 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Directions 2: Yesternow 3: What I Say 4: Improvisation #1 5: Inamorata 6: What I Say 7: Honky Tonk 8: It's About That Time 9: Improvisation #2 10: Inamorata 11: Sanctuary 12: Directions 13: Honky Tonk 14: What I Say 15: Directions 16: Honky Tonk 17: What I Say 18: Sanctuary 19: Improvisation #3 20: Inamorata 21: Directions 22: Honky Tonk 23: What I Say 24: Directions 25: Improvisation #4 26: Inamorata 27: Sanctuary 28: It's About That Time

Editoral Review Davis’s piercing, electronically altered trumpet tones fire up of his young Turks; keyboardist Keith Jarrett, drummer Jack DeJohnette, bassist Michael Henderson , percussionist Airto Moreira, saxophonist Gary Bartz, and guitarist John McLaughlin. These mythical, Washington, DC December dates, released for the first in this impressive six-CD compilation, are an extension of Miles Davis's fusion LP, Live-Evil. Davis's acoustic fans hated the adventurous and extended, jazz-rock excursions of selections like "Directions," "What I Say," and "It's About That Time," but there was no denying the complex interplay and improvisations, especially with Jarrett's rare Fender Rhodes electric piano and organ solos. Bartz's snaky, alto and soprano sax lines are equally astounding in this context, as is McLaughlin's "Hendrixsation" of the jazz guitar tradition. Davis bragged that he could "put together the greatest rock n' roll band you ever heard. " He came pretty close to doing just that. --Eugene Holley, Jr. .. You can see a complete list of all Miles Davis discography, or go back to the Miles Davis tabs