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Miles Davis
THE CREATOR
Summertime
Miles Davis
1959 — Porgy and Bess
((( CooL )))
Sistine Chapel b/ Michelangelo
“In The Beginning, Miles Created ‘FUSION,’ and THE COOL BLUE EARTH.”
THE DISCIPLES
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Return to Forever
Weather Report
The Holy Trinity of Jazz
The Holy Trinity of Rock
“Bitches Brew wasn’t ‘FUSION,’ it was Miles playing Rock N Roll.”
— Lenny White* (Drummer)
Bitches Brew
“East St. Louis”
Lenny White*
Celebrating the town where Miles’ began.
1995 — Present Tense
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(BLACK) JACK JOHNSON
Throughout his life, Miles Davis always looked to the future … not to where Jazz had been, but to where it was going. Defining, as he always had, what was “COOL.”
When leading the musical journey Miles’ eyes and ears were always open, and he believed in mixing all that he experienced. Colors, Continents, Cultures, Languages, and Creeds. Into the 1970s it was Miles finding music in the chaos after the explosive collision of Rock N Roll and Jazz.
THE BIRTH OF FUSION
In 1969, after a man had walked on The Moon, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, and more and more young men were dying in Vietnam, Miles was listening, and being influenced by, Bob Dylan, James Brown, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix. Rock N Roll had become Psychedelic, Political, Heavy, Angry, and Hard.
Miles, as always, was looking to see music’s future. To be the leader of the all-American, musical movement called Jazz.
And at the time (1969), Miles recognized it was the electricity that was energizing the day’s music. Rock N Roll, of course, but bringing that power and intensity to Jazz was something Miles was well positioned to do.
First on his list of requirements in his new band, was electric keyboards. He knew that’s where he wanted to begin.
Joe Zawinul
Chick Corea
the Herbie Hancock, keyboard irony
Lenny White
Without the electric guitar, there would be no music called “Fusion.”
Electric Jazz or Jazz Rock (Not Fusion)
Larry Coryell
Alex Skolnick
Vernon Reid
John McLaughlin
Bitches Brew
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“Miles Runs The Voodoo Down”
Bitches Brew
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“Nasty Gal”
Betty Davis
1975 —
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87/88 — Prince brought his “Sign O’ The Times” tour to a close at his Paisely Park, playing a benefit concert for the Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless. Miles Davis joined Prince for an encore that included “It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night,” “Chain Of Fools,” “Pacemaker,” and for Straight-Ahead Jazz sake, the traditional anthem “Take the ‘A’ Train.”
Overall, the New Year’s Eve show is anchored by a trio of songs, “Purple Rain,” “Auld Lang Syne,” and “1999,” that showcased Prince’s undeniable strength as a stage performer and a bandleader.
Fully Charged
The Last Word (The Warner Brothers Years)
Miles Davis
w/ Marcus Miller
Benny Rietveld
Foley
Robben Ford
Prince
“Anti-Love Song”
Betty Davis
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“It’s A Man’s World”
James Brown
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“The Payback”
James Brown
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“The Devil’s Wife”
Ladell McLin
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“Mistreated”
Deep Purple
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“Hail To The Real Chief”
Lenny White
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MILES DAVIS: THE BIRTH OF THE COOL
(DOCUMENTARY FILM)
“Hail to the Real Chief” is a previously unreleased Miles Davis recording featured on the soundtrack for the Stanley Nelson documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool. The jazz-funk track was constructed from unused 1980s trumpet performances by Davis and new music composed by drummer Lenny White. White, along with Vince Wilburn Jr., produced the song, which features an all-star band of Miles Davis alumni and influenced artists.
The track originated from unreleased studio recordings Miles Davis made in the 1980s.
Lenny White composed the new music that integrated with the 1980s recordings. Lenny and Vince Wilburn Jr. produced the track, after assembling a band of all-star musicians to accompany Miles.
Miles Davis (Trumpet
Lenny White (Synthesizer, composer
Vince Wilburn Jr. (Drums
Marcus Miller (Bass
John Scofield (Guitar
Jeremy Pelt (Trumpet
Antoine Roney (Tenor Saxophone
Emilio Modeste (Tenor Saxophone
Bernard Wright (Keyboards
Quintin Zoto (Guitar
Vernon Reid (M.E.B.) Miles Electric Band
Miles is the musician who explored most all musical time and space. He’s the only to play with both John Coltrane and Prince. Coltrane, the innovative saxophonist and Be-Bop pioneer, and The Artist (known as Prince) who pushed the Fusion forward, while always respecting the past.
JAZZIZ publisher Michael Faigen was a Miles Davis fan, since the day he met him in 1991. In the first 20 years of JAZZIZ, there was at least one Miles Davis feature, many on the cover. This cover (February 2002) referred to stories told by a group of musicians of their first meeting the legendary Miles, who since the 1940s had been the Jazzman who always defined what was “COOL.”
TRUMPETS (LEADING THE CHARGE)
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
DIZZY GILLESPIE
MILES DAVIS
HERB ALPERT
THE DEVIL IS SINGING HER SONG
Blues singer Diamond Teeth Mary McClain was 80 years old when she played one last show in Miami. Saturday night at the notorious Tobacco Road, on the river, next to the drawbridge between downtown and Little Havana.
Summertime
Porgy and Bess
((( In The Beginning )))
Prince
Dec. 31, 1987 / Jan. 1, 1988
Paisley Park, Minnesota
Sign “O” the TimesPlay in the Sunshine, Little Red Corvette, Erotic City, Housequake, Slow Love / Do Me, Baby / Adore, I Could Never Take the Place is Your Man, Interlude (What’s Your Name), Let’s Pretend We’re Married, Delirious / Jack U Off, Shelia E’s Drum Solo / Twelve, Hot Thing, If I Was Your Girlfriend, Let’s Go Crazy, When Doves Cry / La, La, La, He, He, Hee, Purple Rain / Auld Lang Syne, 1999 Enc: U Got the Look, It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night / Chain Of Fools / Pacemaker – Take the ‘A’ Train
The clip also celebrates the release of the comprehensive reissue of Prince’s Sign O’ The Times LP, including 63 previously unreleased tracks and the below, 2-plus-hour concert video.
Get your hands on the reissue here.
Watch the full concert and check out the full setlist below (watch Miles and Prince collaborate around the 1:43 mark):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_aAug_PpUM&ab_channel=Prince
CoLors*…
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