I've been hearing about this 1959 album by Miles Davis for years, but I'd never heard it. I know it's regarded as seminal and it's been influential on a lot of other musicians' work (Duane Allman: "I've listened to that album so many times that for the past couple of years, I haven't hardly listened to anything else.").
I borrowed a copy of a reissued version with both the original and the alternate take of "Flamenco Sketches" from the library and listened to it today.
It's gonna take a few more listens to really appreciate it, but on first pass it's quite something, isn't it? Particularly when you recognize that it's all done within scales rather than with major/minor chords.
Posted by Linkmeister at March 9, 2009 09:15 PM | TrackBack