Miles From India - A Celebration of the Music of Miles Davis

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Artist : Miles From India
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0822545180821
Label : Times Square
Number of Discs : 2
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2008-06-02
UPC : 822545180821

ASIN : B00140GWSE

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Spanish Key
2. All Blues
3. IFE (Fast)
4. In A Silent Way
5. It's About That Time
6. Jean Pierre

Disc-2
1. So What
2. Miles Runs The Voodoo Down
3. Blue In Green
4. Great Expectations
5. IFE (Slow)
6. Miles From India

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Customer Reviews

Essential addition to the canon of reworked Miles (2008-09-27)

Some people have been disappointed that this project did not realise its full hybrid potential, and perhaps not unduly so. However, we must remember that the music of Miles' electric period was already inflected with Indian musical structures and musicians, irrespective of the extent of explicitly Indian instrumentation (surely part of its appeal to me). On Miles From India I will concede that some tracks are more successful than others in their achievement of indo-jazz synergy. But for example, Spanish Key is absolutely incredible- a really distinctive interpretation with a pronounced Indian inflection, and reason alone to purchase this. As an obsessive about this era of Miles' music, this rendition really caught my attention, filling me with delight. Others have complained that the project suffers from the segregation of its recording, with separate sessions in India and the US (reducing the carbon footprint of its production), with the music only combined in production, thereby depriving the musicians from the dynamic intersubjectivity of shared being. This too I will partially concede. Again however, I will defend this project by noting just how successful the dynamic integration of component parts has generally been. And after all, so much of this era of Miles' music was a cut and paste job by Teo Macero anyway.In recent years we have been treated to Bill Laswell's Panthalassa project and its dance remixes, to Henry Kaiser and Leo Wadada Smith's Yo Miles! project (producing three wonderful CDs), and to the potent live performances on the Children on The Corner album. Miles From India represents another worthy addition to a body of work that so warrants celebration through reinterpretation. Whether these projects try to innovate or replicate, I'm still happy to hear alternative versions of so many tracks that I love so much. Great stuff.

Brilliant Jazz (2008-09-19)

People tend to get too deep describing classic music played by a fusion of eastern musicians with western jazz stars. All that matters is - does it sound good? This album just goes to underline just how good the music Miles Davis and his various colleagues produced over the years and how it is absolutely timeless. The striking thing about this recording is how fresh it is, absolutely no sign of when the original music was made. For me the Indian classical musicians actually improve, or at the very least equal the sound of the original recordings. The sitars, drums and other instruments, with occasional vocals ,mixing with the traditional horns etc. make Miles' music truly worldwide. Now one of my best albums and one of my best investments this year.

Miles apart (2008-04-16)

This double CD represents a large project with numerous musicians, in a number of combinations, and playing a number of Davis's more popular compositions from the 60's and 70's. So admittedly it is difficult to take in just in one go. Whilst rating it as "good/3 stars", Miles From India has not instantly become one of my favourite Indo-jazz fusion albums or likely to be. Why: because of a number of petty annoyances it carries with it, neither does it have the degree of integration of two distinct musical styles, and instead the joins show on a number of tracks.So I offer a number of questions and observations:a) whilst appreciating cost limitations, does recording at a several locations on the planet and with musicians not in face to face contact, make for rapport? For instance, I hear Indian musicians laying down percussion, and I hear jazz musicians doing their own things - (to borrow from Kipling) "never the twain do meet" that often, since rarely does this album reflect the sophisticated Indo-jazz fusion of Shakti, Jonas Hellborg, Fareed Haque, and many others nowadays.b) At least at one point the lack of seemless fusion, not so much reflects Indo-jazz fusion of the 21st century but rather where this movement started, with Joe Harriott/John Mayer Double Quintets' albums of the mid 60's. Indeed I thought the sitar solo on All Blue, sounded like a take from their first Indo Jazz Fusion album of 1966......c) No doubt I've missed several points here. So I have to conclude that this is a modern "reiteration" of the music Davis was evolving post-Bitches Brew, without necessarily taking on the modern sophistication of Indo-jazz fusion.d) I wonder if Miles would approve, in particularly of some of the playing - I'm sure he would growling in the ears of several of his former sidesmen something along the lines: "Less is more, MF".e) Could more have been made of the Indian percussion, especially when it seems to compete and even get subsumed by the jazz or jazz-funk percussion? Is the tabla/tablas multi-tracked any stage - since in its busy-ness it morphs temporarily into what sounds like the Burundi Black Drummers - now there's an option for the next Miles Davis tribute?

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