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The Ultimate Jazz Archive Vol.102 – Miles Davis [1949-1953] [2005]

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01.Move
02.Jeru
03.Budo
04.Godchild
05.Deception
06.Down
07.Blue Room
08.Conception
09.My Old Flame
10.Bluing
11.Dig
12.It’s Only A Papermoon
13.Out Of The Blue
14.Tasty Pudding
15.Willie The Whailer
16.Tempus Fugit

 

Davis was born into a wealthy black family; for his 13th birthday, his father bought him a trumpet. By 15, he was playing in public with band leader, Eddie Randall. Miles Dewey Davis III made his debut on 26 May 1926 in Acton, Illinois and was raised in East St Louis, where his father was a dentist. He was given a trumpet at the age of 13 and became a child prodigy.

In 1945, after graduating from high school, he moved to New York City and set about finding his heroes, amongst them Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and Coleman Hawkins. He can be heard on sessions led by Parker released in 1945, 1946 and 1947. The same year Mile Davis All-Stars made their debut at the Savoy. By 1949, his career was beginning to blossom, and he began to work with arranger Gil Evans, with whom he would collaborate on many works over the next twenty years. Playing in the jazz clubs of New York, Davis was in frequent contact with illegal drugs and developed a serious heroin addiction. In 1954, he returned to Illinois and, with the help of his father, he kicked his heroin habit.

After an historic set at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1955, Davis was signed to Columbia Records, with whom he remained for the next 30 years. He returned to New York reinvigorated, and formed the first great incarnation of the Miles Davis Quintet, with John Coltrane, and Charles Mingus. Their records defined the sound of cool jazz. He then recorded a series of albums of stunning variety and complexity, 'Miles Ahead' (1957), 'Milestones', (1958), and 'Kind Of Blue' (1959), which is amongst the best selling jazz albums of all time, and still widely hailed as the greatest.

That year, Davis was beaten by the New York police in a racist attack. He attempted to pursue the case in the courts, but eventually dropped proceedings. Throughout the 1960s Davis continued his prodigious output but, increasingly influenced by the sound and attitude of rock music, he began to produce the first truly successful amalgamations of jazz with rock music. His breakout record from this period, which was heavily inspired by Jimi Hendrix and James Brown, was the double LP 'Bitches Brew' in 1969. Following this record, he became the first jazzman to adorn the front cover of Rolling Stones magazine.

By the mid 1970s an unwell Davis withdrew almost completely from the public eye, but by the 1980s he was back, and ready to assemble a new band from the finest musicians available. They produced five experimental albums, and two movie soundtracks. This included the strong comeback record 'The Man With The Horn' in 1981, which became the first album to reach the Billboard top 50 since 'Bitches Brew'. After this, his new line up was recorded live for the 1982 album 'We Want Miles', which was followed by 'Star People' (1983) and 'Decoy' in 1984. Davis' final album for Columbia was 'You're Under Arrest' in 1985.

He then recorded for Warner Bros, releasing the albums 'Tutu' (1986), 'Music From Siesta' (1987), 'Live Around The World' (1988), 'Amandla' (1989), 'Dingo' (1990) and his final record 'Doo-Bop' in 1991. The latter hip-hop inspired album gave Davis his first posthumous hit single in 1992. Miles Davis died from a stroke in September 1991.

On 13 March 2006, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, marking 80 years since his birth in 1926 and 15 years since his death. --- thebiographychannel.co.uk

 

Miles Davis to legenda nie tylko jazzu ale całej współczesnej muzyki. Jego płyta "Kind of Blue", nagrana w 1959 roku, uznana została za jeden z najważniejszych albumów wszech czasów.

Miles Davis urodził się w 1926 roku w Alton, w stanie Illinois. Dorastał w St. Louis, gdzie jego rodzice przeprowadzili się tuż po narodzinach syna. Miles w wieku 12 lat zaczął naukę gry na trąbce, a 4 lata później dawał już pierwsze koncerty w lokalnych pubach. Wkrótce też związał się z grupą Eddie'ego Randalla - Blue Devils. O tym, że zostanie profesjonalnym muzykiem zdecydował koncert big bandu Billy'ego Eckstina, gdzie grali m.in. Charlie Parker i Dizzy Gillespie.

Mając 18 lat Miles przeniósł się na Manhattan i zaczął próby z Charliem Parkerem, rezygnując jednocześnie z edukacji w Institute of Musical Art. W tym samym czasie zarejestrowane zostały pierwsze nagrania Milesa z zespołem Benny'ego Cartera. Davis nawiązał też współpracę z Eckstinem, ale zadebiutował w czasie sesji, w której udział wzięli: Parker, pianista John Lewis, basista Nelson Boyd oraz perkusista Max Roach. W roku 1948 muzyk zainicjował nagrania z nonetem, gdzie m.in. wykorzystano saksofon altowy, tubę i puzon. Zespół nagrał wspólnie 12 utworów zarejestrowanych w wytwórni Capitol i wprowadził nowe brzmienia, modyfikując jednocześnie styl określany jako "cool jazz style" na Zachodnim Wybrzeżu.

Kolejna dekada przyniosła artyście występ na festiwalu jazzowym w Paryżu oraz wydanie pierwszego albumu - w 1957 ukazał się "Birth of the Cool", na którym zamieszczono takie utwory jak: "Jeru", "Moon Dreams" czy "Rouge". Wkrótce Miles zaczął nagrywać dla kolejnej wytwórni - Prestige i wystąpił na Newport Jazz Festiwal, co spowodowało, że zaproponowano mu kontrakt z Columbia Records (która wydała później m.in. "Kind of Blue", "Sketches of Spain" oraz "Quiet Nights" i serię koncertów live). Dzięki temu powstał quintet Milesa, w którym grali tacy muzycy jak: John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones. W roku 1957 Davis wziął udział w nagraniu ścieżki dźwiękowej do filmu Louisa Malle - "Escalator to the Gallows".

Lata 70. przyniosły w muzyce Milesa zwrot ku brzmieniom elektronicznym i rockowym - powstały wówczas albumy takie jak: "Bitches Brew", "Miles in the Sky" i "In a Silent Way". W roku 1975 ukazały się dwa krążki zawierające materiał z koncertów japońskich, zatytułowane "Agharta" i "Pangaea". Z powodu wypadku samochodowego Miles zamilkł na kilka lat, by powrócić triumfalnie płytą "The Man with The Horn" wydaną w 1980 roku. Wkrótce wyszły kolejne albumy artysty m.in.: "Aura", "Tutu", "Music from Siesta".

Miles Davis zmarł na zapalenie płuc w 1991 roku w Santa Monica w Kalifornii. Ostatni, studyjny album muzyka "Doo-Bop" ukazał się rok później. Nikt przed nim, ani nikt po nim nie wniósł takiego dorobku do muzyki jazzowej i nie grał na trąbce w taki sposób jak Miles. ---rfm.fm

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