Music CD - Miles Davis: We Want Miles

	Music CD: We Want Miles Artist: Miles Davis List Price: $12.98 Our Price: $8.69 Your Save: $ 4.29 ( 33% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Columbia Europe
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Tracks: 1. Jean-Pierre 2. Back Seat Betty 3. Fast Track 4. Jean-Pierre 5. My Man's Gone Now 6. Kix
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 5099746940225 Format: Import Label: Columbia Europe Manufacturer: Columbia Europe Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Columbia Europe Release Date: 1992-01-20 Studio: Columbia Europe
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: One of the Two Good Post 1975 Releases by Miles Comment: This is a great live release. Why only four stars (ok 4.5) ? How can I give this five stars when I can only give Agharta, Pangea, Dark Magus, The Cellar Door Sessions, Four and More, My Funny Valentine, and so on only five stars? This is good music, I like the band and I like Miles' playing. Regardless of what any other reviewer might say, Miles is not simply "mailing it in" at this point in his career. That statement would be true a couple of years later but not at this point. In fact, this set of live recordings finds Miles' chops in better shape than they were when he did Agharta. Miles is trying to get back on track here and I think this band works very well. There are some surprisingly strong performances here and any fan of Miles' work in the early 70's can appreciate this release. On a side note, isn't it weird that Sony Music hasn't remastered this release and Star People along with all the other remasters? This release and Star People contain good music and are probably the only two that Miles' earlier fans (who were desperate for him to come out of retirement) can appreciate. The rest of the post '75 stuff? I don't get it at all. Customer Rating: Summary: This Isn't the Miles You Want Comment: By this point in his career, Davis was just mailing it in. The caliber of the musicianship is par excellence as always. The quality of the songs is what makes this CD a bore. Either Miles just didn't care any longer or he was totally burnt. Take your pick. Either way, these songs are unimaginative, repetitive and say absolutely nothing. Davis was no longer a musical trailblazer but a trend follower. Customer Rating: Summary: Smokin! Comment: This album was the first time I had ever heard Mike Stern, back in the 80's. I was blown away, his playing is out of this world! It fits Miles' funky jams perfectly and in places sounds just like a horn player. If you are a fan of Mike Stern, you should buy this. Great playing by everybody else too, by the way, including Miles. There's no keyboard player, so its a very raw, stripped down feel, like they are just jamming at the house for fun! Excellent. Customer Rating: Summary: Can we say that this is Miles's real comeback album? Comment: This album is a live version of The Man with the Horn in many ways. The Man with the Horn was the first Davis album I got, and I was always disappointed in it (the Miles Davis albums I picked up after that got significantly better). We Want Miles is superior to The Man with the Horn in every way. The long version of Jean Pierre (I saw Miles perform this tune on SNL, of all places) sounds like Fat Time from Man with the Horn, including a blistering guitar solo by Mike Stern. This version sounds looser and it is much more alive and intense than Fat Time. The version of Back Seat Betty here is quicker and looser (no pun intended), but the best track is Fast Track. This has the melody line from MWTH's Aida, but here it's twice as long, and the groove that Miles and his band create reminded me of his fantastic, acid funk jazz albums in the 1970's (Al Foster is the drummer here, and he was the drummer on the 1970's albums). The last two, My Man's Gone Now and Kix, are excellent as well. The crowd really gets into the former, and Miles seems to be enjoying it. This album was kind of forgotten after the disappointment of The Man with the Horn, and that's a shame. We Want Miles is a great album. Customer Rating: Summary: We Want Miles LIVE!!!! Comment: I agree with the others, I bought the import 2cd version around 7 years ago. Its' a shame Columbia hasn't remastered the best live Miles Davis Album of all time. It won a grammy folks, that's how good it was and still is. Of all the miles that columbia has released, they are stuck on his 70's stuff. Why don't they remaster "The MAn with the Horn" or "We Want Miles" which are classics. Because Sony/Columbia people are pathetic! Anyways, Mike Stern was born to play with Miles. On (Fast track/Adia) he is smokin!!! He was scary back then folks. Miles is just as scary on the trumpet and by this time in 1982 he had gotten his chops back! I wish they had released the whole version of Back Seat Betty, one of my favorite miles peices. I bought the 17 disc Montreux Box set of Miles which is the best box set out of any of Miles's box set. For some reason from 1981-1983 they didn't play at the Montruex Jazz Festival. I wish this band which featured the now legends Marcus Miller, Mike Stern and Bill Evans could have been on that box set. Oh yeah Al and Mino are legends as well. But you have a chance of hearing this group in prime time. We want Miles!, well I got'em alright. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Recorded in 1981 and originally released as a 2 LP set (contained here on one CD). This album features sidemen such as Mike Stern (guitar), Marcus Miller (bass, guitar), Al Foster (drums), Bill Evans (saxes) and Mino Cinelu (percussion). Includes the songs: 'Jean Pierre', 'Back Seat Betty', 'Fast Track', 'My Man's Gone Now' and 'Kix'.