Limited red, yellow and green splatter colored vinyl LP pressing housed in a gatefold jacket. The 4th album from Midlake released in 2013 marked a return to brighter, more breezily melodic territory per MOJO. Long out of print on vinyl.
The notorious and prolific Cleveland cult, Midnight, have been slaying the metal punk underground with their own, highly addictive brand of lust, filth, and sleaze dating back to the band s inception in 2003. Filthy, belligerent and obnoxious, Midnight make music to start fights to.One-man-band, Athenar, has been churning out an ungodly racket, dropping countless…
The notorious and prolific Cleveland cult, Midnight, have been slaying the metal punk underground with their own, highly addictive brand of lust, filth, and sleaze dating back to the band s inception in 2003. Filthy, belligerent and obnoxious, Midnight make music to start fights to.One-man-band, Athenar, has been churning out an ungodly racket, dropping countless…
Hailing from Alexandra and nicknamed Ratau (meaning lion ), saxophonist Mike Makhalemele (1938-2000) was a force of nature with a robust yet soulful tone and seemingly endless breath. He embraced the pop music scene as an enthusiastic collaborator and staked his territory at the intersection of township grooves with modern currents in soul, funk and…
Mildlife are Adam Halliwell, Kevin McDowell, Jim Rindfleish and Tom Shanahan. With no designated leader, the band rolls on intuitive waves. Chorus is the band s ultimate statement of that borderline mystical unity. Chorus is Mildlife s most optimistic record, serving as a sonic testament to the band s unwavering adoration for the beguiling realms…
Original soundtrack to the 2016 motion picture. Miles Ahead is Don Cheadle s wildly entertaining and moving exploration of Miles Davis. This is a perfect primer on Davis career for the new fan and a brilliant audio keepsake of the film for those who ve studied his works inside and out. The album features 11…
Round About Midnight is an album by jazz musician Miles Davis. It was his debut on Columbia Records, and was originally released in March 1957. The album took it s name from the Thelonious Monk song Round Midnight . Recording sessions took place at Columbia Studio D on October 26, 1955, and at Columbia s…
A Tribute to Jack Johnson is a studio album and soundtrack by American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Miles Davis. It was originally released on February 24, 1971, by Columbia Records. It s two 25-minute-plus tracks were produced from recordings made on February 18 and April 7, 1970, at 30th Street Studio in New York…
Michael Henderson launches into an enormous boogie groove with Billy Cobham and John McLaughlin. Miles immediately leaves the control room to join in with them. He achieved exactly what he wanted for the soundtrack of the documentary devoted to the black boxer Jack Johnson by creating the effect of a train going at full speed (which he compared to…
Contradictory accounts of Miles Davis creation of the soundtrack to Louis Malle s film noir Ascenseur pour l Échafaud have all become part of its legend. Rarely has a soundtrack been so decisive. Nearly 70 years on, beyond the myth, this taut, feverish recording, imbued with extreme dramatic tension, remains one of the Miles finest…
More than 30 years ago Miles Davis recorded this collection in the company of such other giants as Milt Jackson, Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke, Percy Heath, Sonny Rollins, and Horace Silver. Today the music they made is regarded as classic and rightfully so. Bags Groove, in two versions, is a perfect illustration of the improvisatory process, and…
Limited double 180gm audiophile vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Originally released in 1974, Big Fun presents music from three different phases of Miles Davis early-seventies electric period. Sides one and four ( Great Expectations and Lonely Fire ) were recorded three months after the Bitches Brew sessions and incorporate sitar, tambura, tabla and other…
This inventive post-bop treasure finds Miles totally reenergized by the young talent of his second quintet. His first album of new material in six years is a brilliantly excecuted exercise in tension and release! Includes Eighty-One; Little One; R.J.; Agitation; Iris; Mood, and the title track.
Filles de Kilimanjaro (named after the Kilimanjaro African Coffee) is one the many masterpieces American composer and trumpeter Miles Davis recorded during his lifetime. It can be seen as a transitional album, right between his acoustic and electric period. He recorded this incredible work of modern jazz together with music greats such as Wayne Shorter,…
Miles Davis Self-Proclaimed Directions in Music March Begins Here: Filles de Kilimanjaro Recognized as Jazz Legend s Prelude into Full-On Fusion Miles Davis  move into full-on fusion starts here. Abandoning his bebop roots and chasing electric dreams, rock-based rhythms, and ostinato pulses, the icon gives life to new music forms on Filles de Kilimanjaro, a release prized for its…
In a live set bristling with energy, Miles keeps an exhilarating pace playing essentially the same repertoire of bebop tunes and standards that earlier quintets had played-but with increasing structural and rhythmic freedom. Includes So What; Walkin Joshua; Four; Seven Steps to Heaven, and more.