Name: Water Babies
Brand: Miles Davis

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COLUM34396

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180-gram vinyl

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Limited edition

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2018-02-11

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Scorp­io

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Miles Davis

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Jazz

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Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and one of the most important figures in jazz music history. Miles Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in his five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz. Born on May 26, 1926 in Alton, Illinois, USA and passed away on September 28, 1991 in Santa Monica, California at the age of 65. He is best known for his seminal modern jazz album "Kind of Blue" (1959), which remains the highest selling jazz album of all time with six million copies sold.Miles Davis studied at an academic school for musicians in NYC where he met Charlie Parker and they started playing together from 1945. In 1948, Miles Davis formed his own ensembles and collaborated with Gil Evans to create The Miles Davis Nonet. Their recordings from 1949 to 1950 resulted in the album "Birth of the Cool" (1957) and laid the foundation for their future collaborations.A pioneer of 'Hard Bop' in the mid-1950s, Miles Davis constantly pushed boundaries throughout his career. In the late 1960s, he ventured into experimenting with electronic instruments and incorporating rock and funk rhythms into his music. Despite health problems leading to a hiatus from playing in the mid-1970s, he made a comeback with an 'electronical' sound in 1980.

After a long period of experimentation from the late-60s to the mid-70s, jazz trumpet legend Miles Davis was experiencing dire times. His commercial fortunes had dwindled, and after the poor initial reception to his 1972 studio album On The Corner his critical acclaim had begun to lag as well. Compounding this was a heavy dependency on drugs and alcohol, paired with a slew of health problems, and frequent sexual trysts. After a series of live festival appearances, Davis took a lengthy hiatus from music in 1975 to get himself together. His next studio album would not come until 1981. Despite his seclusion, Davis had opted to renew his contract with Columbia, to whom he provided a series of compilation albums to fulfill it. One of these was 1976's Water Babies, which consisted of rarities and outtakes highlighting two different sounds from Davis: post-bop Miles Davis Quintet sessions in 1967, and his early experimentation with fusion in 1968. The 5-song collection featured Davis working alongside many of the key players from both periods, including Wayne Shorter on saxophone, who was also given the chief writing credit for the five tracks, Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea on keyboards, Ron Carter and Dave Holland on Bass, and Tony Williams on drums. An essential piece for the Davis completionist, and an important stop-gap album showing his transition from traditional jazz to fusion.

Water Babies

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