Kelly and I travelled to Geneva, New York on Thursday to see Hot Tuna play at the Smith Opera House (awesome) and then stayed afterwards to do a little thrifting at the local Salvation Army's, Goodwill's and other local junk shops (not so awesome). However, I did find a beautiful five disc player for all this "Cee-Dee" bootlegs that I have laying around downstairs--so that's pretty cool.
On the way home, we dropped off at the Bop Shop in Rochester and there I found this In a Silent Way record by Miles Davis.
This particular Bible (Mojo, August 1995) record (#46) has been on my radar to find for a long, long time and--low and behold--there it finally was!
Produced by Teo Macero, the album was recorded in one session date on February 18, 1969, at versy among music critics, particularly those of jazz and rock music, who were divided in their reaction to its experimental musical structure and Davis's electric approach. Since its initial reception, it has been regarded by fans and critics as one of Davis's greatest and most influential works.
By January 1969, Davis' core working band had stabilized around Wayne Shorter on soprano saxophone, Dave Holland on bass, Chick Corea on electric piano, and Jack DeJohnette on drums. For his next studio album, Davis brought in former band members Tony Williams on drums as he wished to use his style and Herbie Hancock on additional electric piano as they had previously agreed to work with Davis on studio recordings. In the following month, the six were joined by Austrian keyboardist Josef Zawinul after Davis had called him and asked to bring musical ideas for the group, and English guitarist John McLaughlin, who had been in the United States for less than two weeks to join The Tony Williams Lifetime before Davis asked him to attend the recording session. McLaughlin had been a longtime fan of Davis, and spoke of his nervousness to the trumpeter about the prospect of recording with his idol. Among the pieces by Zawinul that Davis took a liking to was In a Silent Way, an atmospheric piece that was titled at the suggestion of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley when the two were in the same band.
In other words, it's some pretty coll shit and most welcome and long time in coming addition to the home collection.
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