Miles Davis

4 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

Miles’s longtime audience will without doubt find this a bizarre set. Within the space of this double album Miles plays organ on half the tracks, marking the first time in a 30-year recording career that he has appeared on an instrument other than trumpet or fluegelhorn. Other oddities include three electric guitars on several cuts, Miles overdubbing lush multiple trumpet backgrounds, an upfront harmonica track here and there and a couple of tasty bits from Miles’s tape collection.

PERSONNEL:

• MILES DAVIS, trumpet & organ
• CARLOS GARNETT, SONNY FORTUNE, STEVE GROSSMAN, sax
• DAVID LIEBMAN, flute
• WALLY CHAMBERS, harmonica
• CORNELL DUPRIEE, DOMINIQUE GAUMONT, JOHN McLAUGHLIN, guitar
• HERBIE HANCOCK, KEITH JARRETT, keyboards
• CEDRIC LAWSON, piano
• MICHAEL HENDERSON, bass
• AL FOSTER, BERNARD PURDIE, WILLIAM COBHAM, drums
• Among others

TRACKS:

• A) - He Loved Him Madly
• B1) - Maiysha
• B2) - Honky Tonk
• B3) - Rated X
• C) - Calypso Frelimo
• D1) - Red China Blues
• D2) - Mtume
• D3) - Billy Preston