Name: On The Corner
Brand: Miles Davis

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ck63980

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Limited edition

Release date

2000-08-11

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Sony

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Standard:20

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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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.

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on the corner enjoys a special cult status among musicians, anticipating as it does the punk funk/acid jazz movements. for miles davis, on the corner was another seismic shift. miles was particularly fond of the lyric sweep of hendrixian electric guitar, the james brown-like rhythmic thump of fender bass, and the bell-like timbre and chordal possibilities of the fender/rhodes electric piano. now the trumpeter sought to incorporate the feel of street rhythms from around the world and to reflect the influence of modern electronic composers such as karlheinz stockhausen. so while on the corner is generously populated with top-flight jazz players, davis was zeroing in on a contemporary approach not beholden to jazz players of jazz rhythmic postures—although group improvisation is still very much the order of the day. in paving the way for his afro-psychedelic working bands of the mid-70's, davis was roundly dissed, but on the corner endures brilliantly—the dark lady of miles' musical sonnets. the album is a furious carnival of rhythm. the first section is dominated by an afro-cuban groove, the eerie distortion of miles' wah-wah trumpet, john mclaughlin's nasty electric leads and a swelter of rhythms—every instrument seemingly transformed into a drum. the second section beginning with "black satin" is driven along by a commanding michael henderson bass line, a celestial drone of indian bells, sitars, tablas, congas and handclaps, some skanky herbie hancock keyboards, and a skittering davis solo.

On The Corner

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