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Originally Posted by duval  Yeah, the 80s stuff is really cool as well...a particular favourite of mine is the album We Want Miles. It has some insane electric guitar playing on it, Bill Evans (the sax one, obviously  ) plays well, Miles is in good shape and holding it all together is the multi-talented Marcus Miller on bass. Has anyone here heard the humongous 21 cd box set of Miles' 80's stuff...would you recommend it if you have? |
I have the Montreux set: it's really the only way to understand the 80's music with any comprehensiveness. The studio recordings, particularly after he left Columbia, were not really representitive of how the band sounded. There's a ton of great music in the box set. And what's impressive too is that on some days there are two 75 to 90 minute sets in one day, a loot of playing for a trumpet player, especially as he was getting on in years. Kenny Garrett, Darryl Jones, Al Foster, Scofield, Kei Akagi, Deron Johnson, Marcus Miller, all fine players. And like everyone who played with him, they all sound different with Miles than they did on anything else in their careers.
Michael McLaughlin