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In case some among you doesn't own this, now you have no excuse. This is one of the very cornerstones of the beginning of jazz/rock, progressive music and all that we hold dear.
Made with an amazing cast of players: Miles, Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul, Larry Young, Jack DeJohnette, Lenny White, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, etc. etc!
Recorded in just 3 days in August, 1969, and brilliantly edited/shaped by Teo Macero who took Miles' raw materials (and abuse - "Miles, what take is...
On Ka’a Davis – guitars, synth keyboard, programmed sounds, voice, percussion
Donald Sturge McKenzie II – drumset
Ali Ali – trumpet, handclaps, ESP percussion
“The mystical figure On Ka’a Davis returns for his second CD on Tzadik, and his first in twenty-five years. Blending the psychedelia of Sun Ra with Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix, this is an epic, direct from the ever-growing counterculture of Downtown New York.
Performing on guitar, synth keyboard, programmed sounds, and...
Here’s one I never even heard until some time after it was reissued on CD and which I had put off hearing, as I was afraid it would be awful. I was wrong.
It's an extremely good 1970-style, English, proto-progressive album of songs featuring Graham Bell-electric piano, acoustic guitar, lead vocals, Geoffrey Peach-reeds, backing vocals, Alan Cartwright-bass, John Hedley-gutar and Brian Davison-drums (yes, Brian of The Nice and Refugee). If you like that very late 60s/very early 70s progressive/song...