Track Listings (4) - Disc #1| All Artists: Henry Kaiser, Wadada Leo Smith Title: Upriver: Yo Miles (Hybr) Members Wishing: 5 Total Copies: 0 Label: Cuneiform Release Date: 1/25/2005 Album Type: Hybrid SACD - DSD Genres: Jazz, Pop, R&B Styles: Avant Garde & Free Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Funk Number of Discs: 2 SwapaCD Credits: 2 UPC: 045775020129 |
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This is the third disc guitarist Henry Kaiser and trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith have recorded devoted to celebrating, reinterpreting, and expanding upon Miles Davis' Bitches Brew era electric and funk-infused bands from ... more » |
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Amazon.com This is the third disc guitarist Henry Kaiser and trumpet player Wadada Leo Smith have recorded devoted to celebrating, reinterpreting, and expanding upon Miles Davis' Bitches Brew era electric and funk-infused bands from the late 60s to early 70s. While it has found favor among samplers for its incessant rhythms, and has even been subject to radical remixes, this thirty-year-old music is surprisingly unexplored. Reveling in the layered tapestries that characterized such albums as Agharta and On the Corner, this ten piece band is both unrelenting and subtle. One group composition and Smith's "Thunder & Lightning" round out this lengthy, but ever-unfolding set. Performed live in the studio, the recording is astoundingly clear and warm. --David Greenberger Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsThird time's a charm . . . Jan P. Dennis | Monument, CO USA | 02/20/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) ". . . and these boys've finally got it exactly right. Got what right? Well, they've finally captured the essence of electric Miles while at the same time nudging (or is it blasting?) the music into the 21st century.
Not bad. In fact, pretty darn good. The key, here, is that everyone's pretty much on the same page--quite remarkable given the hugely eclectic make-up of the band (everyone from out jazzer and classical composer Wadada Leo Smith, to fusion drummer Steve Smith, to New Age bassist Michael Manring, to that venerable freebopper John Tchichai, to protean young lion Greg Osby, to out weirdo guitarist Henry Kaiser). Throw in keyboardist Tom Coster, someone I'd've never thought could work within a context like this, and Zakir Hussain, Miles' old tabla master, and you've got one of the most diverse bands to ever record together. That they meld at all is just this side of miraculous; that they do it with such off-hand spectacular aplomb staggers the imagination. But they do. And you shouldn't miss it." |
