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Miles Davis Relaxin' With Miles Davis Quintet

11 oct 07

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Ultimately, there is a cultural responsibility towards readers when one "illustrates" something to them. If done poorly, incorrect information is communicated, generating ignorance and confusion of ideas. As Nanni Moretti once said: "but how does he speak?? Words are important!! If someone speaks poorly, they think poorly and live poorly!!!"

Miles Davis Relaxin' With Miles Davis Quintet

11 oct 07

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Uxo, it's true that one can write reviews however they like, even in a "carefree" manner. However, it becomes a problem if this "sloppiness" cheapens what you write! You are always too brief when discussing the album in question, while you include long introductions and "fillers" where the intent is to illustrate the musical context, the various jazz currents, the contributions of this or that musician, the connections-oppositions between the musician being reviewed and another musician. Your intentions are good, and you always choose beautiful albums, but I think you could discuss them with more accuracy, eliminating typos, inaccuracies, and some egregious absurdities.

Miles Davis Walkin'

10 oct 07

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4.5!

Miles Davis Walkin'

10 oct 07

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Finally, someone manages to talk about hard bop, explaining what it really is and mentioning the right names! However, I don't think much of Schildkraut.

John Coltrane Ascension

10 oct 07

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4.5!!

John Coltrane Ascension

10 oct 07

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You could have saved the satanic remark; maybe you meant it was more intense than heavy metal, which makes sense. Perhaps you could have elaborated a bit more... This is a very important album; I would call it a masterpiece, but there’s a catch: first of all, the original "Free Jazz" by Ornette Coleman is a bit too heavily plundered in terms of concept, arrangement, duration, band size, and sound, even though it reaches better results. Secondly, let’s be honest: "Giant Steps," "My Favorite Things," "A Love Supreme," "Crescent," "The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings," besides being monumental, perhaps even more so than "Ascension," are also more BEAUTIFUL. Hence the 4.5. And don’t come telling me that the 5 for this album is mandatory; I’m tired of this story!

Miles Davis Relaxin' With Miles Davis Quintet

10 oct 07

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A clarification: taken individually, this album might be a 4, like "Steamin'." "Cookin'" and "Workin'" are perhaps a 5 instead. Viewed as a unique cycle of recordings (just two sessions), they represent an impressive body of work and a perfect example of the "live in studio" recordings typical of Miles, complete with the leader's sarcastic remarks and smoky, tangible atmospheres from other glorious times.

Miles Davis Relaxin' With Miles Davis Quintet

10 oct 07

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6) It's not called "A" Kind Of Blue. 7) Kind Of Blue is NOT hard bop. It is the manifesto of so-called modal jazz, if one really needs to slap a label on it. 8) His name is Herbie Hancock, not Hencock. 9) Tony Williams was 17 in '63. By the time of Nefertiti ('67) he was 21. 10) Miles was a heroin addict during the '50-'54 period. After that, it was only alcohol, cigarettes, and later, a lot of cocaine. His depression coincided with other factors, not pharmacological but personal.

Miles Davis Relaxin' With Miles Davis Quintet

10 oct 07

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Forgive me, everyone. I don’t take pleasure in being a killjoy, but I notice a number of typos and confused ideas freely scattered everywhere, on reviews and posts. I’ll go in chronological order: 1) "Philly" Joe Jones (his name wasn’t Phil, he was simply from Philadelphia. The nickname was used to distinguish him from the namesake Jo Jones, who was also a drummer). 2) The Ballad is not a "style," it's a musical form. Funky is a style. 3) Hard bop is not the offspring of cool; it is the offspring of bebop. 4) Kind Of Blue cannot be considered the pinnacle of the quintet, simply because it is not an album recorded by this quintet... obvious! The musicians in common are only three: Miles, Coltrane, Chambers. 5) "Oleo" is by Sonny Rollins, not by Miles and Mingus. It is clearly stated on the CD as well.