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Miles Davis / Miles Quintet Davis New Miles Davis Quintet Vinyl LP (1955)
Digitally remastered by Joe Tarantino (1982, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California).
THE NEW MILES DAVIS QUINTET made its first visit to the recording studios on November 16, 1955. By October 26, 1956, when they made their last session for Prestige, Miles had signed with recording giant Columbia, had the most influential band in all of jazz (which would spawn the most charismatic musician of the 1960s), and was well on his way towards international stardom.
Listen to THE MUSINGS OF MILES, an earlier quartet with bassist Oscar Pettiford, then listen to the difference bassist Paul Chambers and tenor saxophonist John Coltrane make. Philly Joe Jones' dancing hi-hat reverie introduces "How Am I To Know," and the band takes it a galloping tempo. The youthful bassist pushes the music into more modern directions with his solid time, driving beat, ringing tone and uncanny sense of melodic counterpoint. He opens the music right up, and his rhythmic flexibility frees up Philly Joe to play ahead of the beat and instigate an insistent polyrhythmic dialogue.
From the finger snappin' opening groove of Benny Golson's "Stablemates," it's clear that this rhythm section just swings harder (and in more different styles) then anyone this side of Basie's All-Americans or the drummer-led bands of Art Blakey and Max Roach. In Red Garland, the trumpeter found a pianist who understood his idea about touch, voicings and space, and was able to orchestrate in the lush, expansive style Miles favored. (Listen to his discreetly rocking, two-handed intro to "Just Squeeze Me," or his rhapsodic responses to Miles' little boyish Harmon mute on "There Is No Greater Love.")
And John Coltrane...in whose restless, searching, turbulent lines Miles found his perfect foil (much as the trumpeter's taciturn, introspective lyricism complemented Charlie Parker's voluminous harmonic flights). On "S'Posin'" ...
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Sallinen Sallinen: Symphonies 2 & 6; Sunrise Serenade CD (1992)
Inner City Blues album Track Listing of songs: Sunrise Serenade, Op. 63; Symphony No. 2, Op. 29; Symphony No. 6, Op. 65, "From a New Zealand Diary": I. the Islands of the Sounds. the Sounds of the Islands; Symphony No. 6, Op. 65, "From a New Zealand Diary": Ii. Air. Rain; Symphony ...
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