Doo-Bop

Artist: Miles Davis
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 075992693820
EAN: 0075992693820
ASIN: B000002LTU

Release Date: 1992-06-30

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Tracks:

Mystery
The Doo Bop Song
Chocolate Chip
High Speed Chase
Blow
Sonya
Fantasy
Duke Booty
Mystery (Reprise)

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Customer Reviews:

The Final Mile.......2006-09-06

With his very last project, DOO-BOP, trumpeter Miles Davis brought a fitting, if not exactly earth-shattering, conclusion to four and a half decades of forward-looking music by incorporating the commercially - and, perhaps, culturally - ascendant sounds of rap into his boundless conceptual universe. While few if any fans would be likely to rank this album (which was, alas, patched together posthumously) among Miles' classics, the Maestro could still blow a mean horn even in his final days, and there's plenty here worth listening to despite the distracting hip-hop overlays on a few tracks and lots of programmed percussion throughout. Granted, DOO-BOP might well have proven a worthier coda to jazz's most important postwar career had the artist himself lived to assemble it; but even as is it's among the better post-1980 Davis efforts and a good place for rap enthusiasts to begin the journey into jazz.

Maybe not his best, but ..........2006-06-21

A lot of fans prefer status quo. Miles said in an interview that he hated doing is old stuff, so essentially all of his music was experimental; some worked, some less so. That said, this is an excellent album, regardless of whether it was supposed to be hip-hop or country western. The great thing about Miles Davis was that he had no use for boundaries. When people think of jazz, the name "Miles" always comes up because he embodied the very soul of jazz. I have been a fan of what I consider his post-fusion days of the late 1970s, so my favorite albums by Miles aren't always considered his best: "Get up with It"; "Siesta"; "Directions"; and even his later "Tutu." Bottom line for me is this: so-called purists won't like any Miles Davis music performed after the early 1960s. "Bitches Brew" thrust him into a whole new realm of non-categories. "Doo-Bop" may not be Miles Davis' best music, but it's sure better than most of the MOR crap that passes for jazz these days.

Always Thought It Would Have Been A Great EP.......2006-05-24

I had purchased the cassette tape version of the album when it initially was issued. My feelings remain the same now as then that there simply was not enough recorded in the studio while Miles was alive for an album's length of material.

It would have been a dynamite EP with a second side containing unreleased live material from his last year on the road.

Miles was always a musician who wanted to expand his horizon, which mostly led to critics/fans panning many projects, but seemingly catching up with him years later. For those digging Miles for the first time, the release is not the place to start.

But it is a CD you will want in your collection at some point to appreciate where Miles was going musically in the studio in the last year of his life.

Back on the block with Miles .......2006-03-20

An attempt from Miles to get into hiphop, but unlike other times where he tried to fusion his music with other types of music, nothing really new or exciting comes out of it. Instead it becomes a little mechanical with Miles blowing over some tracks, that sound like standard hiphop fare with slammin' drums and lots of loops. Maybe if Miles had participated himself in preparing the tracks, something interesting would have come of it, but except for tracks like "Mystery" and "High Speed Chase", generally the record sounds pretty sterile and not particularly engaging.

doo tha doo bop.......2006-03-01

f*ck all you h8er c*nts.this album is rad.the fusion of jazz and hip hop is rad.

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