Complete In a Silent Way Sessions

Artist: Miles Davis
Label: Sony
Category: Music

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Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 3

UPC: 074646536223
EAN: 0074646536223
ASIN: B00005QGAS

Release Date: 2001-10-23

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Tracks:

Mademoiselle Mabry
Frelon Brun
Two Faced
Dual Mr. Anthony Tillmon Williams Process
Splash
Splashdown

Tracks:

Ascent
Directions I
Directions II
Shhh/Peaceful
In A Silent Way (rehearsal)
In A Silent Way
It's About That Time

Tracks:

The Ghetto Walk
Early Minor
Shhh/Peaceful (LP Version)
In A Silent Way/It's About That Time (LP Version)

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Customer Reviews:

ABSOLUTE Must Have For Miles Collectors!!!.......2007-02-10

This collection is a must have if you are a Miles Davis Collector or a fan of the electric era. There's a lot of new music here to explore, including some tracks with drummer Joe Chambers. High points from the previously unreleased stuff includes Joe Zawinul compositions Ascent, Directions, and something called Early Minor. Miles Davis's Ghetto Walk, a 26 minute piece is very much a missing link between Filles De Kilamajaro and Bitches Brew. There's also a "new' piece called "Splashdown", I'm unsure if that has been released elsewhere... perhaps on "Directions"? If you own Filles De Kilamanjaro, Water Babies, and In A Silent Way you will definitely duplicate some tracks but there is a lot of new stuff here. You also get to hear the raw, unedited recordings that Teo Macero used to create In A Silent Way and finally, you get the entire In A Silent Way release. Another selling point is that you get to hear some new material by quintet that featured Corea and Holland.

This is money well spent if you are a Miles collector or a big fan of Miles' work between 1967 and 1972.

The soundtrack to a religious experience.......2006-11-09

While I would like to provide a balanced review of this box set, I simply can not. I also want to avoid using clichés but "The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions" is one of the world's greatest recordings. It would seem that such a statement must surely be victim to hyperbole. Without overstatement, my case unapologetically stands. Once the listener hears a work of this lofty caliber, words become meaningless. This box set lives somewhere beneath a wave of adjectives like "greatest ever" "amazing" and "un-friggin' believable." This was a unique and all too brief time period for Miles. Before the gauntlet was thrown down with "[...] Brew," this was Miles' light trip music. Psychedelica is omnipresent but never overpowering. This album occupies a special place that is triangulated between rock, jazz and trance music. Either this is music to contemplate at one o'clock in the morning or this is the soundtrack to a profound meditation. The original LP seems like the "In A Silent Way" starter kit compared to this full-blown box set. Indeed, this release makes the original seem painfully short since the vibe and atmosphere is consistent. The inclusion of "Dual Mr. Anthony Tillmon Williams Process" is especially appreciated. The listener must ultimately ask, so how can music be played in a silent way? Miles not only contemplates this zen paradox, he finds the path and takes us along on his vision quest. Get "The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions" and take a trip with Miles Davis on his most spiritual journey.

One of Miles' More Complete "Complete" Sets.......2006-04-26

Unlike THE COMPLETE BITCHES BREW SESSIONS, which actually contains only the BITCHES BREW album as released and pads it out with subsequent recordings (many of them rehearsal jams never intended for release), THE COMPLETE IN A SILENT WAY SESSIONS delivers on the promise of its title by offering both the unedited studio workouts from which Miles' proto-fusion classic was assembled AND the clipped-and-pasted album itself. Since all of this material would run just a few minutes more than a single CD, some padding has of course been done here as well - this time in the opposite direction, with the final two tracks from the trumpeter's previous album FILLES DE KILIMANJARO (left off the QUINTET 1965-1968 box set because they were recorded after bassist Ron Carter and pianist Herbie Hancock had left the band), the original studio versions of Joe Zawinul's "Directions" (which would become Miles' signature concert opener for a number of years) and all the other tracks and jams which Davis and Company recorded during the six months before IN A SILENT WAY filling out the three-disc package. The extra tracks make good sense in this case, however, since they fill the gap between the last days of Miles' classic mid-sixties quintet and the more wholeheartedly rock-influenced turn the Maestro would begin taking with IN A SILENT WAY, and most of them are in fact of releasable quality. While casual fans (or even hardcores of the not-particularly-hard variety) would undoubtedly do better to simply grab the remastered discs of the albums themselves, tentative completists who've found the BITCHES BREW, JACK JOHNSON and CELLAR DOOR boxes to be just too damned much can rest assured that this is indeed one of Miles' more accessible "complete" compilations.

You'll Want to Hear the Whole Thing.......2005-12-08

This boxset actually works unlike the Jack Johnson set which has multiple takes of the same song and gets somewhat tedious. Not every piece on the box set is essential but still hearing the rough drafts for "In a Silent Way" and seeing how they were spliced together to complete the final product is fascinating. Teo Macero assembled a final product that was better than the sum of its parts (unlike the Live at Fillmore, clip job disaster). And while you're at it, this music has a mellow proto-ambient vibe without suffering from the aimless meandering that much fusion would suffer from. Its hard to believe that this is the same musician who would go on to make "On the Corner" (another favorite of mine) which is as harsh and edgy as this is peaceful but then again this is so far removed from "Kind of Blue" its unbelievable. The really excellent thing about this boxset is to see how Miles' music evolved. Its not like suddenly one day he decided to go electric. The different sessions show a gradual progression. However, this is no history lesson. The music sounds as fresh as the day it was made. This is the rosetta stone of Miles music because this is where his close minded jazz purists step off and his jazz-rock fans start when it reality it is classic jazz that was cutting edge at the time and still sounds pretty damn good.

Miles' best.......2005-11-09

This is simply Miles Davis best record in my opinion. It markes a completely new transition from the more traditional jazz he had been playing. He had started the process on Filles de Kilimajaro and would continue with Bitches Brew. When I bought this CD on a very expensive japanese import at the start of the CD era, I was completely blown away. The box set is simply splendid and provides you with more touttakes taht give you an insight in this turning point. It is not yet completely what we would later call jazz rock or fusion but a blend of styles taht is incredible in its scope. Strongly recommended.

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