Name: Nefertiti
Brand: Miles Davis

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656812

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Limited edition

Release date

2013-04-22

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Sony

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

MOVLP031

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2017-11-01

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Miles Davis

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Jazz

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Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and one of the most important figures in jazz music history. Miles Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in his five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz. Born on May 26, 1926 in Alton, Illinois, USA and passed away on September 28, 1991 in Santa Monica, California at the age of 65. He is best known for his seminal modern jazz album "Kind of Blue" (1959), which remains the highest selling jazz album of all time with six million copies sold.Miles Davis studied at an academic school for musicians in NYC where he met Charlie Parker and they started playing together from 1945. In 1948, Miles Davis formed his own ensembles and collaborated with Gil Evans to create The Miles Davis Nonet. Their recordings from 1949 to 1950 resulted in the album "Birth of the Cool" (1957) and laid the foundation for their future collaborations.A pioneer of 'Hard Bop' in the mid-1950s, Miles Davis constantly pushed boundaries throughout his career. In the late 1960s, he ventured into experimenting with electronic instruments and incorporating rock and funk rhythms into his music. Despite health problems leading to a hiatus from playing in the mid-1970s, he made a comeback with an 'electronical' sound in 1980.

Back in stock for nefertiti which was the fruition of all davis' experiments in free form, bebop, cool and modal jazz. davis's signature as an improviser and musical editor is writ large on each composition, particularly in the provocative use of space. on shorter's famous title tune, the trumpet and tenor saxophone shadow each other's line in a deliberately inexact manner, almost like a form of silkscreening, as hancock's piano tolls away suggestively and tony williams drops percussive grenades all over the canvas—as if the drums were the lead voice (and don't think they aren't). shorter's floating melody on "fall" and his boppish figures on "pinocchio" have also become essential elements of the modern jazz lexicon, and listen to how bassist carter and williams suspend, subdivide and generally subert the traditional 4/4 swing pulse on the later. williams' "hand jive" and hancock's "madness" offer cubist shards of melody as the take off point for more resounding swing interplay with carter and williams, while the pithy "riot" redefines afro-cuban in a decidedly modern manner. nefertiti is a mysterious, meliflouous, enduring classic.

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