Miles Davis / From The Archives
We head back to Slate for another installment of From The Archives. Up to bat is Fred Kaplan’s article Miles Davis’ Missing Years (Maybe his final albums weren’t such a bust after all).
Written in 2002, the central focus here is The Complete Miles Davis at Montreux, 1973-1991, the newly released packaged box set of 20 CDs—19 of which had never before been released. Really it’s about whether or not you should spend $250 on a mega Miles Davis box set – but and entertaining retrospective/review nevertheless.
“The band I had in 1987 was a motherfucker, man,” Miles wrote in his autobiography, and he was right. I heard Miles play live with this band four times in the late ’80s, and they were always terrific. Those concerts changed my thinking about the possibilities of jazz-rock fusion (I’d previously been a rigid skeptic). But the band put out only one studio album (Amandla, by far the best of his late-era works, but still plagued by the typical slick artifice) and made no live albums—or so we thought.
Miles Davis’ Missing Years / Fred Kaplan
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