A Guide to MILES DAVIS Part II / Sketches of Spain - Death
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
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Probably your best work. Such an immense amount of music to talk about, add on the fact that jazz is a rather difficult genre to speak about in detail, but you managed to cover it wonderfully! One of the best musicians ever, great guide
Damn you really covered all 4 stages of life. Birth, Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain, and death.
Would you ever consider doing a Scott Walker guide? His career path is so interesting I would love to hear you talk about it.
Oh yeah that'd be very good
I mean, he was just a governer of Wisconsin. A nice job but nothing to write home about.
i’m modern scott walker
Death is my favourite Miles Davis album
I felt so stupid for googling that lmao. I was like I own 20 Miles Davis LPs, how have I never even heard of this album!
Really gave his all on this one.
Ok I’ll listen to Miles Davis
You haven't?
I'd suggest "A Guide to Frank Zappa"
Hell yeah
Fuck that’s a big one
How is a "Guide to Zappa" even possible? Gonna be 5 hours long!
That's gonna be at least 2 hours long
This is my absolute favourite series on yt
yeah i'm a madlad, what are you gonna do?
Mind my own business.
Nationalize all madlads to fight coronavirus
If I were teaching music appreciation to a crowded classroom, I would duct tape my stupid mouth shut & show you to the podium. Another brilliant (and, yes - MESMERIC!) breakdown of a legendary discography.
I've been listening to all kinds of music for my 63 years, and I have to say, from all I've heard & read thru the decades...Oliver, you & your enthusiasm take the cake.
Your entire "Deep Cuts" series is "The Perfect Drug" ("wink wink, nudge nudge" - cue up NIN!).
Please enjoy your time off. We'll be right here waiting for your return.
I see Girl In A Band in the book collection, hopefully that means the SY guide is coming soon!
I need the SY guide as soon as possible.
Yesss
Indeed.
100%
A J Dilla or Madlib video could be interesting. They both have some pretty dense and diverse discographies
Please do a Charles Mingus guide 🙏
Can't get into his earlier, lauded coo jazz records. His 70s fusion records are my fucking jam though. On The Corner, Get Up With it... Experimental, abrasive, cool af.
Miles might be my favorite artist of all time. I'm so happy you made these videos, you really did him justice :)
On the Corner is a beast of an album
This is probably your best guide yet. Miles evolution in his discography is fucking incredible. You should do a future guide on a band like Kraftwerk or The Cure
Oliver, you're the best.
I was in the shower just the other day listening to Solar because you shined a light on its history and I thought to myself "I wonder when deepcuts is gonna release part 2"
THANK YOU!!!
I'm a diehard Coltrane fan. But, his Second Great Quintet is probably my favorite era of Miles. It's so intense and dark and wild. It's amazing.
It’s a shame that this channel has been abandoned.
Headhunters happened in 1973. The band that Herbie started after he left Miles was the Mwandishi Band - Fat Albert Rotunda (rec. 1969), Mwandishi (rec. 1970), Crossings (rec. 1972) and Sextant (rec. 1972). These are even more legendary than the Headhunters albums.
Doesn’t Yesternow directly use In A Silent Way in the middle of the track?
Yes it did
Hot take. On the corner is his best.
The OtC sessions is amazin too
I don't agree that it's his best, but its definetly up in the top 10 for me
Dark Magus is his best
If you made it through Coltranes Ascension On The Corner should be a piece of cake. My fav will always be Blue Haze.
Love the video, but I think you should have mentioned the horrific car accident in 1972. For those who don't know, Miles broke his legs and got hooked badly on drugs after that. When he recovered his trumpet tone wasn't what it used to be, so he started playing hammond organ more and more on his records until his hiatus in '75. I think that's why Dark Magus, Miles in Concert '73 and Get Up With It are so dark and painful. He was really suffering on a daily basis.
I think "A Guide to Bob Dylan" would do really good
Would need at least two videos, maybe a series.
Just wanted to say big thaks for all you're doing. It's amazing seeing someone, who really gives a damm, talking about what he loves
you also sold me on auterche so big props for that
Godspeed
This has set me off into a massive Miles Davis obsession. Ordered In a Silent Way and Jack Johnson on wax, can't wait. Thanks man!
man you should do a guide to kraftwerk, that would make for a great video!
This was so fucking good, as always.
A Guide to WEEN next??
god this is so well produced its unreal
I've been feeling a _kind of blue_ until this popped up in my notifications!
You madman, you’ve finally done it!!! Been waiting for this patiently since the first half, can’t wait to watch this later tonight! Thanks for all your hard work, Olly! 🙏🙇♂️👏✌️❤️♾
do a Fishmans guide!!!!!!!!!
Miles in Europe features George Coleman on sax - NOT Wayne Shorter.
Saw Miles twice in the mid-80s. It was fantastic.
No wonder, Prince wanted to work with him. At the very peak of his enigmatic powers,
no jazz musician came even remotely close to matching him and that includes
John Coltrane.
Classic Miles albums :-
Kind Of Blue
Walkin'
Cookin'
Relaxin'
Steamin'
Milestones
Porgy And Bess
Sketches Of Spain
My Funny Valentine
ESP
Miles Smiles
Bitches Brew
Tribute To Jack Johnson
Agharta
I would like to see a guide to the Beach Boys(Brian Wilson).
I'd like to see that! I've spent nights contemplating what their music and the music landscape would be like if Smile was allowed to be finished back in the day.
Fishmans guide?
great video, altough Shorter deserved more attention for his compositional role, that was crucial at least as Gil Evans. We're talking about a composer as important as Monk and Ellington for the previous generations, and who wrote some of the best and most sophisticated jazz tunes of the history of the genre, and some of those were played by Miles Davis, influencing deeply the sound of the band (Footprints, Sanctuary, Iris, Pinocchio, Nefertiti, Fall etc)
Brilliant video, probably one of my favorites in all of RUclips. Although I think you underrate Nefertiti (probably my favourite album of his).
Idk if you are a Prince guy but I would love to see you do a guide to Prince
many of the songs on ESP are Wayne Shorter compositions. Still one of the best records ever, I love Iris.
Immense and too much food for thought!!!
I now need more Miles Davis vinyl.....
HOLY SHIT THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU I LOVE YOU NEVER STOP MAKING VIDEOS
yaay! nice to see you are doing well.
I recently find a couple of netflix documentaries on jazz musicians, including Miles, Lee Morgan and Coltrane
anyhow, Mile's wife told for the documentary she barely convinced him to accompany her on seeing flamenco. right after the show they went to local store and bought every flamenco record they could
Live Evil is one of my all time favorites. The studio recorded tracks, also arranged by Evans, are so strange and pretty. There's an overarching psychedelic strange ooze in and over them. Don't even get me started on the cover art!!
"get off your ass and go bloody listen to it"
music reviews need to sound like this all the time.
Frances also influenced Sketches of Spain. In the recent documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, Frances talks about how she first introduced him to flamenco while they were visiting Spain. After watching a flamenco performance with Frances, Miles went straight to the record store and bought every flamenco record he could find. I’m sure this had an influence on his interest in Spanish music.
5 albums that get you into speedcore? :-)
Here we go. I’m going to present another request.
I have thoroughly enjoyed your work. There is an artist that has somehow incredibly escaped the recognition he deserves. A maverick in his career. Making use of his producing talents of other artists to afford not following a commercially acceptable path in his own work. Every year the R&R hall of fame allows him to slip through the cracks despite accolades from his piers and loyal fans. Todd Rundgren.
If you haven’t explored him yet, please start from the beginning. His path has been eclectic to say the least but sprinkled with wonderful jewels of songwriting and innovation.
Great video. I love what Miles did in the late 60s up to the mid 70s (obviously not ignoring greats like Sketches of Spain though). Massive thank you for recommending 'Dark Magus'. Wow, what an album. I probably wouldn't have ever tried it, unless it was recommended. It went straight in my top 10 of all time. CAN have become possibly my favourite band, and this period of Miles music, for me, beautifully compliments CAN's music, though I'm only really a fan of the Damo Suzuki and Malcolm Mooney era. My fav albums
CAN - Tago Mago
The Fall - 'Slates'
Radio Los Santos (from GTA SA) (not technically an album, but a fantastic playlist of early west-coast hip hop)
The Velvet Underground & Nico
XTC - Drums and Wires
Dark Magus
Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band
CAN - Ege Bamyası
The Beach Boys - Smile
Rush - Moving Pictures
Finally, YES! Great video again, Oliver. I'd love to see something like this covering Coltrane's discography.
The quality of this is remarkable
Please do the Sonic Youth Guide
It's pretty handy that whenever you upload a new video it'll be first in my recommended feed because I watch your channel so prolifically ;)
I remember the day I listened to In A Silent Way. I bought the record and didn't know what to expect. The needle dropped and learned I was getting into some good stuff.
This video is nothing short of brilliant. Thank you
This series is fucking awesome. Great work.
you're not giving "someday my prince will come", nor "seven steps" enough credit. both miles and trane's solos on "someday" are iconic. miles plays some of the most beautiful melodic improvisation of all time, with incredibly mature rhythmic and harmonic sensibility. and then trane comes in, the contrast between his solo and hank mobley's is incredibly compelling. its like 20 years of jazz history summed up in one track. and "seven steps" has some of the most technically impressive blowing miles ever recorded in the studio
let's... FUCKING go!
Love On the Corner, Big Fun deserved to be talked about more, world music before anybody knew what that meant.
The box sets of the complete recordings are special, got them all. Apart from the King Crimson box sets, the most treasured things in my collection.
Oliver, do you like Metroid Prime 2 for the gamecube?
Do a frank Zappa guide I dare you
YESSSSS you absolute legend
Guide to the mountain goats?
I'm so glad you included Dark Magus, it's my favorite. Sounds like the Davis/Hendrix jam we never got.
BTW Siesta is one weird movie but the soundtrack is mesmerizing. The opening line by miles is one of the most enchanting pieces of music iv'e heard
" .. those irrascable castanets."
Beautiful wordplay. Love your work, my man. Please keep it up. Thank You.
Thanks so much for the video, it’s fantastic. Keep up the great work Oliver!
Is it REALLY possible to speak in such minutiae depth about 'Sketches of Spain' without once mentioning Rodrigo's 'Concerto d'Aranguez' other than as 'that record'? Did I just imagine that?
E.S.P. was actually produced by Irving Townsend. Miles & Teo had a falling out in reference to the Quiet Nights album.
You certainly know your Miles but I think the second great quintet had two great tenor players: George Coleman and Wayne Shorter; George was as interesting and creative as Wayne.
my boi comin through with the Live Evil love
BBC Four wished they made this stunning documentary.
also, no one in the world thinks Nefertiti is an inferior record. i wish you would have given some examples of that claim other than "some people say this". Nefertiti is the culmination of the second quintet's musical evolution and isnt really markedly differient than the 2-3 records before it other than maybe having a little bit more of a understated maturity.
also re: "he didnt write anything on these records..." Miles didnt write almost anything for ANY of the second quintet albums. wayne shorter was the primary composer of the second quintet from day one, that was a big reason why miles wanted him for the band. no one listens to Miles smiles or ESP because they want to hear Mile's compositions specifically. which miles tunes from the second quintet era are even well known? none as much as Footprints, Nefertiti, Freedom Jazz Dance, Orbits, Gingerbread boy, ESP...
Thanks for putting this together! 2 other live albums that came out in the early 70's are "Live at Fillmore" and "Miles Davis In Concert (at Philharmonic Hall). Both excellent and intense albums.
On the corner was ridiculously cool
Auyyy!! Been waiting for this one!! Good stuff mate!!!
Let me add how stunningly beautiful his cover artworks are. From the beautiful portraits in the earlier albums (Kind of Blue and A Silent Way are particularly full of character), to the work of Matti Klarwein during the electric period (Bitches Brew, Live-Evil and others), the almost synesthetic cover for Big Fun (I always imagine being enveloped in a trumpet "bath" such as the woman in the cover whenever I hear Miles playing in the 1st track Great Expectations), or the adorably psychedelic cover for Miles in the Sky. Come on, you know the music is great when you see a cover like that.
omg it's here
Amazing Guide Thanks Man. I've had my hands on the discography for a while but I haven't had the nerve to get started on it just cause of how long and daunting a task it seems. Probably won't got started on it for a while but knowing some of the context honestly has me itching to jump in.
Everything from ‘49 to ‘75 is worth owning.
I think there should be a bit more on "Music From Siesta" - it's such a wonderful atmospheric album, probably the first LP that really got me into MD. The movie itself is rather mediocre, but the album is in my opinion second finest after "Tutu" when it comes to Miles+Marcus collaboration. Best listened on warm beautiful summer starry nights...
BTW where's "Dingo"?
Jeshkam probably just didn’t have time man. But you kinda just did it for him and now i’m listening to it lol. Thanks!
Of course you release this just as im getting into 70s Miles Davis u absolute legend - fantastic video as always and im glad u touched on all the live releases too: dark magus is mindblowing and everyones gotta hear it imo
sketches of spain is great :)
Super great day! Love this series!
Enjoyed the review. I’m a big Miles fan.
sonic youth guide next?
If Miles would be alive today, he would have made a TPAB-like album before Kendrick. I think.
As In a jazz rap or the production style of TPAB?
@@Petit784 possibly both
Miles Davis is not a rapper
@@TemperedWambat he didnt say that, he meant he'll have made a avant-jazz-hop album
@@TemperedWambat maybe even bring some MC's to spit some bars too
Watched both parts, excellent videos!
I found On the Corner to be the easiest album to get into from that 70's period. I think it's a classic example of critics missing the boat on an album ahead of its time. For those of us who were raised on electronica, hip-hop, and post-punk (especially if you are into edgier stuff like Aphex Twin or Death Grips), On the Corner will make a lot of sense. It seems to pave the way for a lot that is to come and yet nothing sounds quite like it.
man, thanks for this stupendous effort! and I feel you about Live/Evil, it just grooves so fuckin hard
Bitches Brew is my personal favorite
Boards Of Canada guide. Now
Here we go
ive been waiting for this one
Fuck yh man speedywunderground!!!!
a guide to fishmans!
A Guide to: Black Flag, Black Sabbath, The Cure, John Coltrane, Joy Division to New Order, Pink Floyd, Suicide
Finally.. Cheers mate.
Really really good, comprehensive guide. Thanks. I miss the mention of Canonball Adderley’s something’ else. It is a land mark album and worth a mention in terms of Miles contribution to jazz.