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Miles from India (TWO CD SET)

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0822545180821
Label: FOUR QUARTERS ENT
Manufacturer: FOUR QUARTERS ENT
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: FOUR QUARTERS ENT
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Studio: FOUR QUARTERS ENT
Sales Rank: 701
MPN: 1808




Disc 1:
  1. Spanish Key
  2. All Blues
  3. IFE (Fast)
  4. In A Silent Way
  5. It's About That Time
  6. Jean Pierre
Disc 2:
  1. So What
  2. Miles Runs The Voodoo Down
  3. Blue In Green
  4. Great Expectations
  5. IFE (Slow)
  6. Miles From India
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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
In a startlingly original recreation of music associated
with jazz legend Miles Davis, producer-archivist Bob
Belden, renowned for his Grammy Award-winning
reissue work on a series of Miles Davis boxed sets for
Sony/Columbia, along with co-arranger Louiz Banks
(celebrated keyboardist from India), has recast familiar
themes from such landmark recordings as Bitches
Brew, In A Silent Way, and Kind of Blue with an East
Meets West sensibility on Miles...From India. An
incredibly ambitious project involving two dozen
musicians from two separate continents recording in
studios around the world, Miles...From India is a cross-cultural summit meeting that puts a provocative pan-global spin on such Miles
classics as All Blues, Spanish Key, So What, It s About That Time and Jean Pierre.
Sitar and tablas, ghatam and khanjira, mridangam and Carnatic violin blend seamlessly with muted trumpet and saxophones, screaming
electric guitar and grooving electric bass lines, piano, upright bass and drums on this profound fusion of Indian classical and American
jazz. Recorded in Mumbai and Madras, India and New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, the music on Miles...From India was performed by
classical and jazz musicians from India with the addition of musicians who have recorded or performed with Miles Davis over the span of
five decades.
The Miles alumni included on the sessions are saxophonists Dave Liebman (1972-74) and Gary Bartz (1970-71), guitarists Mike Stern
(1981-84), Pete Cosey (1973-76) and John McLaughlin (1969-72), bassists Ron Carter (1963-69), Michael Henderson (1970-76), Marcus
Miller (1981-1984), Benny Rietveld (1987-91), keyboardists Chick Corea (1968-72), Adam Holzman (1985-87) and Robert Irving III (1980-
88), drummers Jimmy Cobb (1958-63), Leon 'Ndugu' Chancler (1971), Lenny White (1969) and Vince Wilburn (1981, 1984-1987) and
tabla player Badal Roy (1972-3). The Indian contingent is represented by keyboardist Louiz Banks, drummer Gino Banks, American-born
alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, sitarist Ravi Chari, Vikku Vinayakram (a charter member of Shakti) on ghatam, V. Selvaganesh (a
member of Shakti and Remember Shakti) on khanjira, U. Shrinivas (from Remember Shakti) on electric mandolin, Brij Narain on sarod,
Dilshad Khan on sarangi, Sridhar Parthasarathy on mridangam, Taufiq Qureshi and A. Sivamani on percussion, Kala Ramnath on Carnatic
violin, Rakesh Chaurasia on flute and Shankar Mahadevan & Sikkil Gurucharan on Indian classical vocals.



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Miles Still Does It
Outstanding work, even though it was pieced together with contributions from musicians around the world. I loved the marriage of eastern sounds with western jazz....

JRM



Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - twenty bucks?
I had to blink a couple of times when I saw the price. $20 and it's all or nothing - only one track available separately. THIS IS NOT HOW DOWNLOADABLE MUSIC SALES ARE SUPPOSED TO WORK. This is the music industry trying to preserve an obsolete model.

I didn't buy it and I don't plan to.





Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Not what I hoped for . . . but it has its merits
I was excited about it when I heard about the project -- I loved the concept. I knew it had some key people, like Michael Henderson, Bartz, Pete, Chick Corea, Lenny White. And to my ears, the music came off "good" overall. But -- with a a couple of exceptions (Spanish Key, Ife), it is missing that thing, that DRAMA. I think those listeners who have followed Miles all these years know what I'm trying to say - it's the thing that makes his music NEVER get old, always fresh. But I can't fault anybody involved with this Miles From India record - my hats are off to you - this session truly must have been a labor of love. Yes, the drama is missing . . . but only because Miles couldn't be there.



Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Warning! This is NOT the Miles Davis "Miles from India" Album!!!
Be careful - the reviews for this album are incorrectly posted from the Miles Davis tribute "Miles from India". This is NOT that album.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - good music
this cd is a tribute to Miles Davis if you are exposed to his style and
ever listened to Kind of Blue. The tracks are a fusion of east meets
west with all traditional instruments played by masters of the same.
If you have a good system it will reveal the recording quality.Very nice
happy listening and enjoy.


 


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