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Miles From India - A Celebration of the Music of Miles Davis | 
 enlarge | Artist: Miles From India
Label: Times Square
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 938
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 1808
UPC: 822545180821
EAN: 0822545180821
ASIN: B00140GWSE
Release Date: June 2, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| » | Spanish Key | | » | All Blues | | » | IFE (Fast) | | » | In A Silent Way | | » | It's About That Time | | » | Jean Pierre |
Disc 2
| » | So What | | » | Miles Runs The Voodoo Down | | » | Blue In Green | | » | Great Expectations | | » | IFE (Slow) | | » | Miles From India |
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| Customer Reviews:
Miles apart April 16, 2008
18 out of 25 found this review helpful
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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