Miles Smiles is an album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released on February 16, 1967, by Columbia Records. It was recorded by Davis and his second quintet at Columbia 30th Street Studio in New York City on October 24 and October 25, 1966.

Miles Smiles showcases Davis' deeper exploration of modal performance with looser forms, tempos, and meters. Although the album did not follow the conventions of bop, neither did it follow the formlessness of free jazz. According to musicologist Jeremy Yudkin, Miles Smiles falls under the post-bop subgenre, which he defines as "an approach that is abstract and intense in the extreme, with space created for rhythmic and coloristic independence of the drummer—an approach that incorporated modal and chordal harmonies, flexible form, structured choruses, melodic variation, and free improvisation." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-6jme2aTYU

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I love listening to this album around now, since at some point I started associating it with spring:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SErOq087L2k

#jazz #JazzFusion #TonyWilliams #Wilderness

'Four' & More: Recorded Live in Concert is a live album by Miles Davis. It was recorded at the Philharmonic Hall of Lincoln Center on February 12, 1964 and released two years later.

Review by Scott Yanow

In an odd bit of programming, Columbia placed the ballads from Miles Davis' February 12, 1964, concert on My Funny Valentine and the uptempo romps on this LP. Davis, probably a bit bored by some of his repertoire and energized by the teenage Tony Williams' drumming, performed many of his standards at an increasingly faster pace as time went on. These versions of "So What," "Walkin'," "Four," "Joshua," "Seven Steps to Heaven," and even "There Is No Greater Love" are remarkably rapid, with the themes quickly thrown out before Davis, George Coleman, and Herbie Hancock take their solos...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG5FAVw3UqY&list=RDiG5FAVw3UqY&start_radio=1

#MilesDavis #TonyWilliams #Jazz #Music #ModalJazz #HerbieHancock #GeorgeColeman #RonCarter #Trumpet

OK, thanks so much for revisiting with me, the music of my high school years.

Let's close with a beautiful ballad: "My Funny Valentine," live at the Philharmonic Hall, Feb. 1964, NAACP benefit concert.

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#20thCenturyMusic
#MilesDavis (trump.)
#GeorgeColeman (t. sax)
#HerbieHancock (piano)
#RonCarter (bass)
#TonyWilliams (drums)

https://youtu.be/XdrAzpYdOYs