king ubu Posted October 18, 2011 Report Posted October 18, 2011 UK five CD collection from the Jazz great. In 1985, Miles Davis shocked the music world by moving from Columbia to Warner Brothers. He immediately started working on an album called Perfect Way after a tune by Scritti Politti, later renamed Tutu. When Tutu was released in 1986, it re-ignited Miles Davis' career, crossing over into the Rock and Pop markets and winning Davis two Grammy Awards - the album was a key factor in raising Davis' status to an international superstar. This box set includes the Warner Bros studio albums Tutu, Amandla and Doo-Bop, the Dingo and Siesta soundtracks and live recordings with Quincy Jones and the likes of Kenny Garrett, Foley and Adam Holzman. The set also includes four previously unreleased tracks, from the Rubberband Sessions. The liner notes were provided by leading Jazz critic Ashley Kahn. Warner. 2011. no tracklist yet on amazon.com (from where I took the blurb above), but there's one on amazon.de Disk 1 1. Tutu (Album Version) 2. Tomaas (Album Version) 3. Portia (Album Version) 4. Splatch (Album Version) 5. Backyard Ritual (Album Version) 6. Perfect Way (Album Version) 7. Don't Lose Your Mind (Album Version) 8. Full Nelson (Album Version) 9. Siesta - Kitt's Kiss - Lost In Madrid Part Ii - Miles Davis & Marcus Miller 10. Theme For Augustine - Wind - Seduction - Kiss - Miles Davis & Marcus Miller 11. Lost In Madrid Part Iv - Rat Dance - The Call - Miles Davis & Marcus Miller 12. Claire - Lost In Madrid Part V - Miles Davis & Marcus Miller 13. Los Feliz - Miles Davis & Marcus Miller 14. Catembe (Remastered Album Version) 15. Cobra (Remastered Album Version) Disk 2 1. Big Time (Remastered Album Version) 2. Hannibal (Remastered Album Version) 3. Jo-Jo (Remastered Album Version) 4. Amandla (Remastered Album Version) 5. Jilli (Remastered Album Version) 6. Mr. Pastorius (Remastered Album Version) 7. The Arrival (Album Version) - Miles Davis/Michel Legrand 8. Concert On The Runway (Album Version) - Miles Davis/Michel Legrand 9. The Departure (Album Version) - Miles Davis/Michel Legrand 10. Trumpet Cleaning (Album Version) - Miles Davis / Michel Legrand 11. The Dream (Album Version) - Miles Davis/Michel Legrand 12. Paris Walking Ii (Album Version) - Miles Davis/Michel Legrand 13. The Jam Session (Album Version) - Miles Davis & Chuck Findley 14. In A Silent Way (Live Album Version) 15. Intruder (Live Album Version) 16. New Blues (Live Album Version - Greek Theater La) Disk 3 1. Human Nature (Live Version - Austria) 2. Mr. Pastorius (Live Album Version - France) 3. Amandla (Live Album Version - Italy) 4. Wrinkle (Live Version- Montreux) 5. Tutu (Live Album Version) 6. Full Nelson (Live Album Version) 7. Time After Time (Live Album Version) 8. Hannibal (Live Album Version) 9. Introduction By Claude Nobs And Quincy Jones (Live Album Version) 10. Boplicity (Live Album Version) 11. Introduction To Miles Ahead Medley (Live Album Version) 12. Springsville (Live Album Version) 13. Maids Of Cadiz (Live Album Version) 14. The Duke (Live Album Version) 15. My Ship (Live Album Version) Disk 4 1. Miles Ahead (Live Album Version) 2. Blues For Pablo (Live Album Version) 3. Introduction To Porgy And Bess Medley (Live Album Version) 4. Orgone (Live Album Version) 5. Gone, Gone Gone (Live Album Version) 6. Summertime (Live Album Version) 7. Here Come De Honey Man (Live Album Version) 8. The Pan Piper (Live Album Version) 9. Solea (Live Album Version) 10. Mystery (Album Version) 11. The Doo-Bop Song (Album Version) 12. Chocolate Chip (Album Version) 13. High Speed Chase (Album Version) 14. Blow (Album Version) - Miles Davis (With Easy Mo Bee) 15. Sonya (Album Version) 16. Fantasy (Album Version) - Miles Davis (With Easy Mo Bee) 17. Duke Booty (Album Version) 18. Mystery (Reprise) (Album Version) Disk 5 1. Maze (Remastered Album Version) 2. See I See (Remastered Album Version) 3. Rubber Band (Remastered Album Version) 4. Digg That (Remastered Album Version) 5. Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy) - Scritti Politti 6. In The Night (Cameo Feat. Miles Davis) - Miles Davis Boxset 7. Sticky Wicked (Album Version) - Chaka Khan 8. I'll Be Around (Album Version) - Chaka Khan 9. Dune Mosse - Miles Davis Boxset 10. Big Ol' Head (Lp Version) - Kenny Garrett 11. Free Mandela (Lp Version) - Kenny Garrett 12. Rampage (Marcus Miller Feat. Miles Davis) - Miles Davis Boxset 13. Gloria's Story - Miles Davis Boxset 14. You Won't Forget Me - Shirley Horn Can someone please point me to the thread/posts where more information about the previously planned but scrapped Warner box were posted? Can't seem to find it right now. As it is, this box doesn't hold much interest to me... I have all the albums except for the "Dingo" one, but including the mighty good Shirley Horn album. The best of the Warners is "Tutu", would have enjoyed more live material though, but then I have the Montreux box for that... and as for "Tutu" I just played the Deluxe edition for the first time yesterday... it had been lying around for several weeks now. No revelation or anything, but it's still a fine album that I enjoy playing now and then. Quote
JSngry Posted October 18, 2011 Report Posted October 18, 2011 I keep coming back to Amandala and find that it gets a little better each time (and I liked it fine from jump). Same with Siesta. Tutu, I need as an LP, because the first side is classic, the second side filler. Dingo & the live stuff with Quincy are pretty much useless to me. Doo-Bop, I've bought but have never listened to except for when cuts would get played on the radio, where they were pleasing enough. I'm not so sure but that I should leave well enough alone. That 5th disc looks interesting from a completionary standpoint, although I doubt there's anything really meaty there. The cut with Shirley is one with which I'm well familiar and...that might be the weakest cut on an otherwise outstanding album. $52.87 seems a little bit more than I want to pay for this. Quote
king ubu Posted October 18, 2011 Author Report Posted October 18, 2011 Agree on "Amandla"! I mentioned it several times, I think: that was the first Miles I ever heard... my mom had (still has) the CD and enjoyed it a lot when I came out. I fell in love with it, must have been 10 years or something back then. Took me a while, "Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet" was the one I really *got* when I was 13 or 14. From then on, I was on a journey of discovery that hasn't ended since... and "Amandla" is an album I still enjoy! Haven't done a track-by-track comparison yet, but the blurb says it's just four cuts that are previously unissued. What's the stuff on disc five, then? Not sure I have any of it besides the Horn track (and there I agree with you as well, the album's mighty fine, that track's merely ok). And again: if anyone can find those posts about the scrapped box that was planned some years ago, please post a link or quote them over here! Thanks! Quote
kh1958 Posted October 18, 2011 Report Posted October 18, 2011 I keep coming back to Amandala and find that it gets a little better each time (and I liked it fine from jump). Same with Siesta. Tutu, I need as an LP, because the first side is classic, the second side filler. Dingo & the live stuff with Quincy are pretty much useless to me. Doo-Bop, I've bought but have never listened to except for when cuts would get played on the radio, where they were pleasing enough. I'm not so sure but that I should leave well enough alone. That 5th disc looks interesting from a completionary standpoint, although I doubt there's anything really meaty there. The cut with Shirley is one with which I'm well familiar and...that might be the weakest cut on an otherwise outstanding album. $52.87 seems a little bit more than I want to pay for this. Pretty much Ditto, except I made the mistake of listening to Doo-Bop--the slightest recording of his career. Quote
JSngry Posted October 18, 2011 Report Posted October 18, 2011 Haven't done a track-by-track comparison yet, but the blurb says it's just four cuts that are previously unissued. What's the stuff on disc five, then? Looks like the collaboration with Prince and a compilation of already-released guest shots/cameos Miles did on various albums of the time. Pretty much Ditto, except I made the mistake of listening to Doo-Bop--the slightest recording of his career. I'd really have to go with Dingo for that dubious distinction. That one actually pissed me off. Quote
GregK Posted October 18, 2011 Report Posted October 18, 2011 I get off the bus at 1975. I've yet to hear anything after then that would interest me. Quote
king ubu Posted October 18, 2011 Author Report Posted October 18, 2011 Haven't done a track-by-track comparison yet, but the blurb says it's just four cuts that are previously unissued. What's the stuff on disc five, then? Looks like the collaboration with Prince and a compilation of already-released guest shots/cameos Miles did on various albums of the time. Hm, that's definitely not worth 50$... but I strongly assume the price will come down quite some. These 5CD (or 4CD) sets seem to go rather for 25-30€ lately. Packaging is standard, booklet probably none too great, so... Quote
JSngry Posted October 18, 2011 Report Posted October 18, 2011 Yeah, Ashley Kahn is not who I want to read about this music. Definitely not. Some good in-depth commentary by Marcus Miller about the tracks he worked on would have been nice, though. Quote
CJ Shearn Posted October 19, 2011 Report Posted October 19, 2011 The Montreux DVD box for those of us who missed the 20 disc set looks much better. though I never liked the Miles/Quincy album. Miles was definitely not playing strong there. Quote
jazzbo Posted October 19, 2011 Report Posted October 19, 2011 Yes, even if you have (as I do) the Montreux box the DVD box looks like a good set to target. It would be interesting to see many of these concerts, and the DVD sound could be superior. Quote
Adam Posted October 19, 2011 Report Posted October 19, 2011 The Hot Spot actually has a pretty good soundtrack. Quote
Jazzjet Posted October 19, 2011 Report Posted October 19, 2011 UK five CD collection from the Jazz great. In 1985, Miles Davis shocked the music world by moving from Columbia to Warner Brothers. He immediately started working on an album called Perfect Way after a tune by Scritti Politti, later renamed Tutu. When Tutu was released in 1986, it re-ignited Miles Davis' career, crossing over into the Rock and Pop markets and winning Davis two Grammy Awards - the album was a key factor in raising Davis' status to an international superstar. This box set includes the Warner Bros studio albums Tutu, Amandla and Doo-Bop, the Dingo and Siesta soundtracks and live recordings with Quincy Jones and the likes of Kenny Garrett, Foley and Adam Holzman. The set also includes four previously unreleased tracks, from the Rubberband Sessions. The liner notes were provided by leading Jazz critic Ashley Kahn. Warner. 2011. no tracklist yet on amazon.com (from where I took the blurb above), but there's one on amazon.de Disk 1 1. Tutu (Album Version) 2. Tomaas (Album Version) 3. Portia (Album Version) 4. Splatch (Album Version) 5. Backyard Ritual (Album Version) 6. Perfect Way (Album Version) 7. Don't Lose Your Mind (Album Version) 8. Full Nelson (Album Version) 9. Siesta - Kitt's Kiss - Lost In Madrid Part Ii - Miles Davis & Marcus Miller 10. Theme For Augustine - Wind - Seduction - Kiss - Miles Davis & Marcus Miller 11. Lost In Madrid Part Iv - Rat Dance - The Call - Miles Davis & Marcus Miller 12. Claire - Lost In Madrid Part V - Miles Davis & Marcus Miller 13. Los Feliz - Miles Davis & Marcus Miller 14. Catembe (Remastered Album Version) 15. Cobra (Remastered Album Version) Disk 2 1. Big Time (Remastered Album Version) 2. Hannibal (Remastered Album Version) 3. Jo-Jo (Remastered Album Version) 4. Amandla (Remastered Album Version) 5. Jilli (Remastered Album Version) 6. Mr. Pastorius (Remastered Album Version) 7. The Arrival (Album Version) - Miles Davis/Michel Legrand 8. Concert On The Runway (Album Version) - Miles Davis/Michel Legrand 9. The Departure (Album Version) - Miles Davis/Michel Legrand 10. Trumpet Cleaning (Album Version) - Miles Davis / Michel Legrand 11. The Dream (Album Version) - Miles Davis/Michel Legrand 12. Paris Walking Ii (Album Version) - Miles Davis/Michel Legrand 13. The Jam Session (Album Version) - Miles Davis & Chuck Findley 14. In A Silent Way (Live Album Version) 15. Intruder (Live Album Version) 16. New Blues (Live Album Version - Greek Theater La) Disk 3 1. Human Nature (Live Version - Austria) 2. Mr. Pastorius (Live Album Version - France) 3. Amandla (Live Album Version - Italy) 4. Wrinkle (Live Version- Montreux) 5. Tutu (Live Album Version) 6. Full Nelson (Live Album Version) 7. Time After Time (Live Album Version) 8. Hannibal (Live Album Version) 9. Introduction By Claude Nobs And Quincy Jones (Live Album Version) 10. Boplicity (Live Album Version) 11. Introduction To Miles Ahead Medley (Live Album Version) 12. Springsville (Live Album Version) 13. Maids Of Cadiz (Live Album Version) 14. The Duke (Live Album Version) 15. My Ship (Live Album Version) Disk 4 1. Miles Ahead (Live Album Version) 2. Blues For Pablo (Live Album Version) 3. Introduction To Porgy And Bess Medley (Live Album Version) 4. Orgone (Live Album Version) 5. Gone, Gone Gone (Live Album Version) 6. Summertime (Live Album Version) 7. Here Come De Honey Man (Live Album Version) 8. The Pan Piper (Live Album Version) 9. Solea (Live Album Version) 10. Mystery (Album Version) 11. The Doo-Bop Song (Album Version) 12. Chocolate Chip (Album Version) 13. High Speed Chase (Album Version) 14. Blow (Album Version) - Miles Davis (With Easy Mo Bee) 15. Sonya (Album Version) 16. Fantasy (Album Version) - Miles Davis (With Easy Mo Bee) 17. Duke Booty (Album Version) 18. Mystery (Reprise) (Album Version) Disk 5 1. Maze (Remastered Album Version) 2. See I See (Remastered Album Version) 3. Rubber Band (Remastered Album Version) 4. Digg That (Remastered Album Version) 5. Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy) - Scritti Politti 6. In The Night (Cameo Feat. Miles Davis) - Miles Davis Boxset 7. Sticky Wicked (Album Version) - Chaka Khan 8. I'll Be Around (Album Version) - Chaka Khan 9. Dune Mosse - Miles Davis Boxset 10. Big Ol' Head (Lp Version) - Kenny Garrett 11. Free Mandela (Lp Version) - Kenny Garrett 12. Rampage (Marcus Miller Feat. Miles Davis) - Miles Davis Boxset 13. Gloria's Story - Miles Davis Boxset 14. You Won't Forget Me - Shirley Horn Can someone please point me to the thread/posts where more information about the previously planned but scrapped Warner box were posted? Can't seem to find it right now. As it is, this box doesn't hold much interest to me... I have all the albums except for the "Dingo" one, but including the mighty good Shirley Horn album. The best of the Warners is "Tutu", would have enjoyed more live material though, but then I have the Montreux box for that... and as for "Tutu" I just played the Deluxe edition for the first time yesterday... it had been lying around for several weeks now. No revelation or anything, but it's still a fine album that I enjoy playing now and then. This is probably the best source of information on The Last Word - Paul Tingen's Miles Beyond site : The Last Word George Cole's site - The Last Miles - is also useful : The Last Miles Quote
king ubu Posted October 19, 2011 Author Report Posted October 19, 2011 Thanks a lot for these links! Will have a closer look! Quote
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ghost of miles Posted May 5, 2017 Report Posted May 5, 2017 On 10/18/2011 at 6:36 PM, JSngry said: Looks like the collaboration with Prince and a compilation of already-released guest shots/cameos Miles did on various albums of the time. I think the four unreleased tracks on disc 5 are actually from the abandoned Rubber Band project. Quote
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