Miles Davis - Miles In The Sky
Miles in the Sky is an album recorded in January and May 1968 by the Miles Davis quintet. It is notable for the first use of electric piano and electric guitar on an issued recording by Davis, a foreshadowing of his move into fusion music over the next few years.
Although the album was released shortly after recording, the tracks come from different sessions which show different stages of Miles Davis's evolution from acoustic jazz to electric "fusion" music. "Paraphernalia" features George Benson's electric guitar, although it is more conservative in style than the earlier "Circle in the Round", which was not released until the late seventies. "Black Comedy" and "Country Son" are Davis's last return to the acoustic quintet format in the studio. "Stuff", with its electric bass, Fender Rhodes piano and binary rhythm, is in yet another idiom, that of the forthcoming Filles de Kilimanjaro.
"Paraphernalia" was the only composition from this album to enter Davis's live book.
Tracks
- A1) Stuff
- A2) Paraphernalia
- B1) Black Comedy
- B2) Country Son
Track listing above is from 1968-Jan-01 | Canada | Columbia - CS 9628 LP
- 1968-Jan-01 | Canada | Columbia - CS 9628 LP
- 1968-Jan-01 | Japan | CBS/Sony - SONP 50023 LP
- US | Columbia - PC 9628 LP
- 1968-Jan-01 | US | Columbia - CS 9628 LP
- 1968-Jan-01 | New Zealand | CBS - SBP 473589 LP
- 1968-Jan-01 | Germany | CBS - S 63352 LP
- Netherlands | CBS - CBS 85548 LP
- 1981-Jun-21 | Japan | CBS/Sony - 18AP 2073 LP
- US | Columbia - CS 9628 LP
- 1968-Jan-01 | UK | CBS - 63352 LP
- France | CBS - S 63352 LP
- 1968-Jan-01 | Italy | CBS - S 63352 LP
- 1983-Jan-01 | Japan | CBS/Sony - 23AP 2573 LP
- 1983-May-21 | Japan | CBS/Sony - 23AP 2573 LP
- 1972-Jan-01 | Japan | CBS/Sony - SOPL 168 LP
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