Miles Davis - Miles Smiles
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Artist: Miles DavisEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1998-10-13
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Orbits
- Circle
- Footprints
- Dolores
- Freedom Jazz Dance
- Gingerbread Boy
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Free Music Review: You'll smile too
Hit: 4 Stars
"Miles Smiles" is thought by some to be the best of Miles' Shorter-Hancock-Carter-Williams group. I'm officially undecided, "E.S.P.", "Sorcerer", "Nefertiti" and this one are all very good. The album starts off pretty well with "Orbits" and "Circle", but really gets into gear with Wayne Shorter's "Footprints". "Dolores" is an uptempo song. "Freedom Jazz Dance" is a slight recasting of an Eddie Harris song - this melody is slightly different than the original, but apparently the Miles Davis version is the way people play it now. "Gingerbread Boy" is a Jimmy Heath song. The improvisation and playing are at a high level throughout. Miles Davis and/or jazz fans should pick this one up.
Miles Smiles Poster
The most satisfying sort of audacity was the rule with Miles Davis's second great quintet. One of six studio albums cut by the group between 1965 and 1968, Miles Smiles finds them executing three Wayne Shorter compositions and one by the leader, along with Eddie Harris's "Freedom Jazz Dance," former Davis cohort Jimmy Cobb's "Gingerbread Boy," and the usual mix of finesse and barreling momentum. Even when nodding toward the then-burgeoning hard-bop movement on the Harris piece, the group makes its own mark in a hundred different ways, from Herbie Hancock's spare touch to the thoroughly declarative solo Davis lays down. It's hard to pick the most exceptional cut on such a top-flight disc, but certainly Shorter's deceptively simple "Orbits" and "Footprints" deserve mention; on the former, the players take turns stating the melody and then rumbling over it. The latter's echoes of "Caravan" make way for an improv performance that not only hangs tough in itself, but seems to have provided a template for the entire early career of Wynton Marsalis. --Rickey WrightJazz Music CDs
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