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Music CD - Various Artists: Miles from India (TWO CD SET)
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Music CD: Miles from India (TWO CD SET)
Artist: Various Artists
List Price: $22.98
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Manufacturer: FOUR QUARTERS ENT
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Tracks:
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1. Spanish Key
2. All Blues
3. IFE (Fast)
4. In A Silent Way
5. It's About That Time
6. Jean Pierre
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0822545180821
Label: FOUR QUARTERS ENT
Manufacturer: FOUR QUARTERS ENT
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: FOUR QUARTERS ENT
Release Date: 2008-04-15
Studio: FOUR QUARTERS ENT
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Miles Reincarnated
Comment: Miles from India features an all star cast of jazz legends, contemporary jazz stars combined with a stellar group of Indian musicians in an unbelievable tribute to Miles Davis. The first time I listened to this double CD set I was absolutely floored. This CD is more than just a brilliant concept. The execution is flawless and the arrangements are beyond perfect. This CD set will make you think Miles Davis' songs were meant to be played by Indian musicians. Everything about this album is a class act. To start with an incredible group of Miles Davis alumni were assembled. You've got Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb, Gary Bartz, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Lenny White and that's just scratching the surface of the legends whom play on this album. Producer Bob Beldon did not stop there though. He also got one of the top trumpet players, and perhaps the trumpet player whose tone most sounds like Miles, Wallace Rooney and Indian saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, one of the hottest rising stars on saxophone to contribute on the album as well.
The songs selection and arrangements could not be better. The chanting voices on Spanish Key fit in beautifully with the cacophony of sounds. The sitar playing on All Blues will make you think that Miles wrote the song for a sitar player. The frenetic tablas and percussion meld perfectly with the class bass line in So What. This is the clear front runner for jazz album of the year in 2008. When all is said and done, this might be one of the best jazz fusion albums ever.
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Summary: Essential listening for any jazz fan
Comment: This stunning East meets West collaboration brings together an all star line up of jazz players and Indian musicians to explore the nexus of Miles Davis' and Indian music. Featuring an amazing crew of players including many alumni of Miles' late 60's and early 70's beyond category musical adventures. The jazz line up includes John McLaughlin, Lenny White, Badal Roy, Wallace Roney, Marcus Miller, Pete Cosey, Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb, Gary Bartz, Mike Stern and many more. The Indian contingent includes Louiz Banks, Gino Banks, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Ravi Chari, Vikku Vinayakram, V. Selvaganesh, U. Shrinivas, Brij Narain, Dilshad Khan, Sridhar Parthasarathy,Ranjit Barot, Taufiq Qureshi,A. Sivamani, Kala Ramnath, Rakesh Chaurasia, Shankar Mahadevan and Sikkil Gurucharan.
Co-producers Louiz Banks and Bob Belden have created a seamless fusion of the two styles that jumps from the speakers and is endlessly fascinating.
John Coltrane, The Beatles, Miles and many other musicians have looked to the music of the Indian sub-continent for new perspectives and inspiration. This recording is the latest priceless fruit from this cross pollination.
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Editorial Reviews:
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In a startlingly original recreation of music associated
with jazz legend Miles Davis, producer-archivist Bob
Belden, renowned for his Grammy Award-winning
reissue work on a series of Miles Davis boxed sets for
Sony/Columbia, along with co-arranger Louiz Banks
(celebrated keyboardist from India), has recast familiar
themes from such landmark recordings as Bitches
Brew, In A Silent Way, and Kind of Blue with an East
Meets West sensibility on Miles...From India. An
incredibly ambitious project involving two dozen
musicians from two separate continents recording in
studios around the world, Miles...From India is a cross-cultural summit meeting that puts a provocative pan-global spin on such Miles
classics as All Blues, Spanish Key, So What, It s About That Time and Jean Pierre.
Sitar and tablas, ghatam and khanjira, mridangam and Carnatic violin blend seamlessly with muted trumpet and saxophones, screaming
electric guitar and grooving electric bass lines, piano, upright bass and drums on this profound fusion of Indian classical and American
jazz. Recorded in Mumbai and Madras, India and New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, the music on Miles...From India was performed by
classical and jazz musicians from India with the addition of musicians who have recorded or performed with Miles Davis over the span of
five decades.
The Miles alumni included on the sessions are saxophonists Dave Liebman (1972-74) and Gary Bartz (1970-71), guitarists Mike Stern
(1981-84), Pete Cosey (1973-76) and John McLaughlin (1969-72), bassists Ron Carter (1963-69), Michael Henderson (1970-76), Marcus
Miller (1981-1984), Benny Rietveld (1987-91), keyboardists Chick Corea (1968-72), Adam Holzman (1985-87) and Robert Irving III (1980-
88), drummers Jimmy Cobb (1958-63), Leon 'Ndugu' Chancler (1971), Lenny White (1969) and Vince Wilburn (1981, 1984-1987) and
tabla player Badal Roy (1972-3). The Indian contingent is represented by keyboardist Louiz Banks, drummer Gino Banks, American-born
alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, sitarist Ravi Chari, Vikku Vinayakram (a charter member of Shakti) on ghatam, V. Selvaganesh (a
member of Shakti and Remember Shakti) on khanjira, U. Shrinivas (from Remember Shakti) on electric mandolin, Brij Narain on sarod,
Dilshad Khan on sarangi, Sridhar Parthasarathy on mridangam, Taufiq Qureshi and A. Sivamani on percussion, Kala Ramnath on Carnatic
violin, Rakesh Chaurasia on flute and Shankar Mahadevan & Sikkil Gurucharan on Indian classical vocals.
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