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Miles Davis - The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions (1968-1969) {3CD Box Set Columbia C3K 65362 rel 2001}
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© 1968-69, 2001 Columbia / Legacy / Sony Music | C3K 65362
Jazz / Fusion / Jazz Rock / Trumpet

Though BITCHES BREW has attained iconic status as one of the most important, progressive statements in post-bop jazz history, it's predecessor IN A SILENT WAY–though less widely acknowledged–was perhaps even more revolutionary for its dissolution of the songform-oriented cool jazz approach and introduction of electric instruments. This three-disc set, featuring all the material laid down in those vaunted 1969 sessions, is a revelatory sonic document that further illuminates the maverick genius of Miles Davis. In addition to the original SILENT WAY tracks as we know them, there are previously unheard compositions and alternate versions that shed new light on Miles's process.

Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and one of the most important figures in jazz music history, and music history in general. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz. Winner of eight Grammy awards…

Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (1969) {2006 DSD Japan Mini LP Edition Analog Collection SICP 1219}
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© 1969, 2006 Sony Music Japan / Columbia | SICP 1219 | DSD | HQD High Quality Disc
Jazz / Fusion / Jazz Rock / Jazz Funk / Trumpet

Listening to Miles Davis' originally released version of In a Silent Way in light of the complete sessions released by Sony in 2001 (Columbia Legacy 65362) reveals just how strategic and dramatic a studio construction it was. If one listens to Joe Zawinul's original version of "In a Silent Way," it comes across as almost a folk song with a very pronounced melody. The version Miles Davis and Teo Macero assembled from the recording session in July of 1968 is anything but. There is no melody, not even a melodic frame. There are only vamps and solos, grooves layered on top of other grooves spiraling toward space but ending in silence.

Recorded live at the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco on October 31 –November 3, 2019, the album celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Sly &The Family Stone’s multi-platinum classic Stand!and the Miles Davis fusion landmark In A Silent Way. Released respectively in May and July 1969 by a pair of artists connected by mutual respect, inspiration, and commitment to artistic exploration, both albums were beacons of hope and new possibilities during a turbulent time in American history.

In a Silent Way is a studio album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released July 30, 1969 on Columbia Records. Produced by Teo Macero, the album was recorded in one session date on February 18, 1969 at CBS 30th Street Studio B in New York City. Incorporating elements of classical sonata form, Macero edited and arranged Davis's recordings from the session to produce the album. Marking the beginning of his "electric" period, In a Silent Way has been regarded by music writers as Davis's first fusion recording, following a stylistic shift toward the genre in his previous records and live performances.

There are many good things you can say about this disc - see above - that you should know about ECM sound. Mihály Farkas is a highly skilled composer, arranger and pianist, who, from the horn to the soprano and tenor saxophone, Gábor Czvikovszky, like his great predecessors, sounds his instruments in a hypocritically veiled voice, with an obedient slowness of obedient slowness. The validity of music as an intellectual manifestation is given if it has not only a local value but also a universal aspect. Here, however, the formula was reversed: first, the concept - the articulation of sound - was formulated, and the implementation was assigned to it. What the four young Hungarian musicians add to it is hardly heard.