Product Details
- Artist: Various Artists
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- Binding: Audio CD
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- EAN: 0822545180821
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- Label: FOUR QUARTERS ENT
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- Manufacturer: FOUR QUARTERS ENT
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- Number of Discs: 2
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- Product Group: Music
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- Publisher: FOUR QUARTERS ENT
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- Release Date: 2008-04-15
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- Studio: FOUR QUARTERS ENT
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- Title: Miles from India (TWO CD SET)
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- UPC: 822545180821
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Product Description: In a startlingly original recreation of music associated
with jazz legend Miles Davis, producer-archivist Bob
Belden, renowned for his Grammy Award-winning
reissue work on a series of Miles Davis boxed sets for
Sony/Columbia, along with co-arranger Louiz Banks
(celebrated keyboardist from India), has recast familiar
themes from such landmark recordings as Bitches
Brew, In A Silent Way, and Kind of Blue with an East
Meets West sensibility on Miles...From India. An
incredibly ambitious project involving two dozen
musicians from two separate continents recording in
studios around the world, Miles...From India is a cross-cultural summit meeting that puts a provocative pan-global spin on such Miles
classics as All Blues, Spanish Key, So What, It s About That Time and Jean Pierre.
Sitar and tablas, ghatam and khanjira, mridangam and Carnatic violin blend seamlessly with muted trumpet and saxophones, screaming
electric guitar and grooving electric bass lines, piano, upright bass and drums on this profound fusion of Indian classical and American
jazz. Recorded in Mumbai and Madras, India and New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, the music on Miles...From India was performed by
classical and jazz musicians from India with the addition of musicians who have recorded or performed with Miles Davis over the span of
five decades.
The Miles alumni included on the sessions are saxophonists Dave Liebman (1972-74) and Gary Bartz (1970-71), guitarists Mike Stern
(1981-84), Pete Cosey (1973-76) and John McLaughlin (1969-72), bassists Ron Carter (1963-69), Michael Henderson (1970-76), Marcus
Miller (1981-1984), Benny Rietveld (1987-91), keyboardists Chick Corea (1968-72), Adam Holzman (1985-87) and Robert Irving III (1980-
88), drummers Jimmy Cobb (1958-63), Leon 'Ndugu' Chancler (1971), Lenny White (1969) and Vince Wilburn (1981, 1984-1987) and
tabla player Badal Roy (1972-3). The Indian contingent is represented by keyboardist Louiz Banks, drummer Gino Banks, American-born
alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, sitarist Ravi Chari, Vikku Vinayakram (a charter member of Shakti) on ghatam, V. Selvaganesh (a
member of Shakti and Remember Shakti) on khanjira, U. Shrinivas (from Remember Shakti) on electric mandolin, Brij Narain on sarod,
Dilshad Khan on sarangi, Sridhar Parthasarathy on mridangam, Taufiq Qureshi and A. Sivamani on percussion, Kala Ramnath on Carnatic
violin, Rakesh Chaurasia on flute and Shankar Mahadevan & Sikkil Gurucharan on Indian classical vocals.
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Customer Reviews
Amazing Indian Improvisation
Amazing work of fusion the boss would have been proud of.
'So What' has always been my favourite and the way it has been improvised in this CD is just marvellous.
For fans of Shakti there is 'Miles from India' with jaming by the dynamic Shankar Mahadevan and the amiable John Maclauglin.
Truly amazing album in the league of Bitches Brew.
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Wishes do come true.
i've always liked Indian music, prob comes from the Beatles period, when they were into their Yogi friend & Ravi Shankar.
I've always been a big Miles fan too, from when my father & his drummer brother played Sketches of Spain, non stop, when it was first released about 50 years ago.
So to have a group of Indian musicians playing with some of the people I see mentioned in the small print on the CD jacket-covers of my Miles CDs, well I think, maybe they made this double CD just for me.
I saw Gary Bartz at the Wangaratta Jazz Festival 5 or 6 years ago & have been a big fan ever since, so loved the tracks on Miles from India that he plays on.
I rang the DJ who does a World Music programme late on Sunday nights on a subscriber radio station last week, as he had been playing some Indian music, lots of tablas,etc, that night & recomended he get a copy of M from I & play it on his programme. Be interesting to see if he does so tonight.
Thank you Amazon for recomending it to me.It is currently my favourite CD.
Regards, Geoff R from Melbourne Australia.
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very smooth
new jazz sound, entertaining, good music. I f you like jazz and open for " new waves" this is the thing.
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MILES AND MILES OF WORDS AREN'T ENOUGH...
MILES FROM INDIA IS AT THE PINNACLE OF JAZZ FUSION BETWEEN TWO GREAT CULTURAL/MUSICAL FORCES. THE MUSIC IS BRILLIANT AND OF ENDLESS VISION... MILES AND MILES OF WORDS WILL STILL NOT DO JUSTICE TO THIS INCREDIBLE MASTERPIECE. THIS WILL HAVE TO BE THE JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR, AND SHOULD RANK AS THE JAZZ ALBUM OF THE DECADE. MILES DAVIS' SPIRIT IS EVER PRESENT IN THE BURNING MINDS AND HANDS OF ALL THE MASTER MUSICIANS WHO CRAFTED THIS TOUR DE FORCE... A FITTING TRIBUTE TO A GIANT(BY GIANTS), WHO HAD GIVEN THE WORLD SO MUCH...KAISER
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Just OK
I am a lifetime Miles Davis fan, and I also have an interest in Indian music. The "Miles From India" album, although an awsome concept, just didn't move me all that much. I must say that that Wallace Roney does do a really fine job of capturing the Miles Davis sound and conception. I do recommend Alice Coltrane's "Journey To Satchidananda" for an ethereal blend of Indian music and Jazz.
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