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In a Silent Way: the Complete Sessions | 
| Artist: Miles Davis
Label: Sony Jazz
Category: Music
List Price: £33.99
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 13079
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 5.7 x 0.8
EAN: 5099751624820
ASIN: B000620N1S
Release Date: November 22, 2004
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Mademoiselle Mabry | | • | Frelon Brun | | • | Two Faced | | • | Dual Mr. Anthony Tillmon Williams Process | | • | Splash | | • | Splashdown |
Disc 2
| • | Ascent | | • | Directions I | | • | Directions II | | • | Shhh/Peaceful | | • | In A Silent Way (Rehearsal) | | • | In A Silent Way | | • | It's About That Time |
Disc 3
| • | The Ghetto Walk | | • | Early Minor | | • | Shhh/Peaceful | | • | In A Silent Way |
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A great Miles Davis session April 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had know the compiled version of "In a Silent Way" and loved it for years. I've listen it hundreds of times and never got bored of it. I frequently offered it to friends who I want to introduce to Miles' "New Jazz".
So I suspected that I would be disappointed by "the Complete Session". I wasn't! There is a lot more in the Complete Sessions than in the compiled version. Nothing boring! All good stuff, of the same quality as the compiled version - which is, by the way, is included in the album.
My recommendation: If you are not yet an aficionado of Miles' "New Jazz", start by buying the compiled album. If you like it - how couldn't you - give it to a friend and buy the Complete Session!
much to discover November 22, 2006
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
For those, like myself, who didn't know the patchwork albums "Water Babies" or "Directions", there is much to discover here. My attention was caught by "Two-Faced", a long piece which stands right on the fault line between the quintet's jazz and the dawning electric music. Not only because it uses electric keyboards, but also because the music is floating gently, instead of stretching into several directions as it did with the quintet. This nocturnal, chilled ambiance, laid in November 68, truly announces "In a Silent Way" of 3 months later.
As to these actual "In a silent Way" sessions, which really take less than half of this package, they reveal how much editing Teo Macero had to do to take the desired substance out of the sessions. Indeed, the opening "Shh/Peaceful" would never have had the impact it did if the session had been left unedited. Macero had to be bold enough to get rid of the main melodic theme which the band had come up with. You then realise the finished album is a result of a truly radical and thorough cleansing, but what's edited out in 1969 could still make a decent 1975 Weather Report album..... The same radicalism applies to the title track, stripped of all its chordal changes down to one chord... astonishing.
And there is the lovely surprise of "The Gettho Walk", quietly funky and bluesy, which is the main piece among the previously unreleased ones. "Early Minor" is a beautiful ballad too, but so bold was the concept of "In a Silent Way" that even this eminently releasable piece didn't make it.
finally, I would recommend this 3CD set also because, as with the other box sets, it gives you the whole story from one period - here , summer 68 to February 69, and tidies up the previous discographic and chronological mess.
What can I say? May 6, 2006
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
Generally, the Miles Davis box sets are great value and wonderfully put together, both the long boxes and the cd sized boxes (the latter have been phased out by Sony on the old releases, including IASW). For those new to Miles Davis, since you well might end up wanting to buy all the cds individually, an initial lay-out will serve you well. For those who already know the music, but are leery of the boxes, don't be.
The music here consists of the original IASW album, some previously unreleased takes of the IASW tracks, four unreleased tracks, tracks previously issued on the complilations which came out in the 70s/80s (Water Babies, Circle in the Round, and Directions), and two tracks which originally appeared on Files de Kilimanjaro.
I'm loath to say anything about the music. If you don't know this material, then you are being asked to pay a lot for something you might dislike. It forms a link between the end of the quintet, which was still playing something most people would recognise as jazz, and the dirty rock/funk sound of Bitches Brew and beyond. The overall sound might be described as ambient (the Files/Directions period material apart, which is transcendent boogaloo), rather than in your face. This is not wallpaper music, though. As with all of Davis, there is a rigourous intelligence at work, not merely some dippy evocation of mood. Much of it is beuatiful, some of it is joyful, some of it is fun, all of it is wonderful.
As a final note for those as interested in John McLaughlin as Davis, you don't get as much new Mclaughlin here as you do on the Bitches Brew or Jack Johnson box sets.
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