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A TRIBUTE TO JACK JOHNSON was originally conceived as the soundtrack for a documentary on the life of the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, but the album stands on its own as one of the most brilliant, compelling fusion recordings ever made. This is due in large part to the increasing influence of rock and funk on Miles's aesthetic, to the superb musicians (including Davis himself-- who turns in some stunningly vigorous solos), and in part to the production skills of Teo Macero, who collaged the album together from numerous jam sessions into two lengthy, majestic tracks.
The infectious boogaloo groove of "Right Off" has John McLaughlin's crunching, wah-wah-driven power chords dancing fervently around the relentless backbeat of Fender bassist Michael Henderson and drummer Billy Cobham. Gone are the trappings of bebop harmonies and modern jazz rhythms, save for Davis's dramatic solo, with its long, linear melodies and nasty blues inflections. The haunting, surreal "Yesternow" is an abstract update of the classic Miles/Gil Evans mood piece. The groove accrues momentum in a dreamy, backwards manner, keying off Henderson's hypnotic modal patterns and McLaughlin's speech-like figures, culminating in an atonal distortion solo by free jazz pioneer Sonny Sharrock. In all, JACK JOHNSON packs a punch like nothing else in the trumpeter's canon, and continues to grow in stature and influence decades after its release.
Recording information: Columbia 30th Street Studios, New York, New York (04/07/1970).
Personnel: Miles Davis (trumpet); Brock Peters (spoken vocals); John McLaughlin , Sonny Sharrock (electric guitar); Steve Grossman (soprano saxophone); Herbie Hancock (organ); Michael Henderson (bass guitar); Billy Cobham (drums).
Liner Note Authors: Dave Miles; Bill Milkowski.
Q (12/93, p.130) - 3 Stars - Good - "...A TRIBUTE TO JACK JOHNSON is a cult status rarity....it's a treat..."
Uncut (p.121) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[The album] lays down a blistering blueprint which it took the world two decades to catch up with." Tribute To Jack Johnson Music | List Price | $7.99 (You save $0.40) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Jazz CDs, Jazz Instrument, Trumpet | | Label | Legacy | | Orig Year | 1970 | | All Time Sales Rank |  10924  | | CD Universe Part number | 6817055 | | Catalog number | 93599 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jan 11, 2005 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Teo Macero | | Engineer | Stan Tonkel | | Personnel | Miles Davis - trumpet
MILES DAVIS - trumpet
Also: Herbie Hancock, John Mclaughlin, Billy Cobham, Michael Henderson, Steve Grossman, Sonny Sharrock, Brock Peters | | Additional Info | Remastered |
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| Tribute To Jack Johnson Music Review Buy Tribute To Jack Johnson CD Purchase Tribute To Jack Johnson CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Miles Davis On The Corner CD (1972) Remastered
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ON THE CORNER enjoys a special cult status among musicians, anticipating as it does the punk funk/acid jazz movements. For Miles Davis, ON THE CORNER was another seismic shift. Miles was particularly fond of the lyric sweep of Hendrixian electric guitar, the James Brown-like rhythmic thump of Fender bass, and the bell-like timbre and chordal possibilities of the Fender/Rhodes electric piano. Now the trumpeter sought to incorporate the feel of street rhythms from around the world ...
| | Miles Davis Kind Of Blue CD (1959) Bonus Track; Remastered
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With BIRTH OF THE COOL, Miles Davis distilled a new tonal palette for jazz. As early as 1954, Miles reacted to the escalating chordal complexity of hard bop by fashioning an evocative blues based on a simple scalar pattern ("Swing Spring"). KIND OF BLUE was the ultimate fulfillment of this approach, with Miles providing his collaborators little more than outlines for melodies and simple scales for improvisation. By emphasizing the blues and the improvisor's melodic gifts, KIND OF BLUE precipitated a major stylistic development--modal jazz.
Charles Mingus had experimented with pedal points throughout the 1950s, and the melodic freedom of Ornette Coleman's Atlantic sides was also predicated on freedom from chord changes. But KIND OF BLUE was to prove the most influential, enduring work of its kind. There was just such a vibe about these 1959 sessions--Miles' lyric genius and ...
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Among the most controversial recordings in the history of jazz, BITCHES BREW was Miles Davis' shot across the bow of jazz insularity, a bold statement about jazz's ability to draw upon elements of popular culture, without mitigating its spirit of spontaneous invention. Much as Ornette Coleman's THE SHAPE OF JAZZ TO COME set a new standard for harmonic and melodic freedom a decade before, BITCHES BREW signaled a sea change in jazz.
Davis became a lightning rod for jazz's transformation, by mixing the best elements of '60s free jazz with dancing funk rhythms, electric rock textures, blues phrasing and his own breakthroughs ...
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This audio document of The Corrs' Dublin homecoming concert has pretty much everything fans of Irish pop could wish for, including an appearance from Bono in his earthly incarnation, fresh from an audience with President George W. Bush. It's to the band's credit that the charismatic singer fails to steal the show, despite creditable efforts via an anthemized version of Ryan Adams' beautifully downtempo ...
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