Rolling Stone...
"On July 17th, Columbia/Legacy
Recordings will release the fourth
volume in their ongoing Miles
Davis bootleg series, Miles Davis at
Newport 1955 - 1975 , a collection of
tracks from eight live festival
performances from around the globe.
The four-disc collection boasts four
hours of previously unreleased music,
including Davis' rendition of the jazz
standard, "Stella by Starlight." The track
was recorded live at Newport in 1966
and is now available to hear exclusively
on Rolling Stone.
The furious, free-bop blitz begins simply
and slowly, with Davis and his band —
which at the time boasted drummer
Tony Williams, pianist Herbie Hancock,
tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter and
bassist Ron Carter — delivering "Stella
by Starlight" as the sensitive ballad
Victor Young wrote it as.
Two minutes in, however, as music
historian Ashley Kahn — who penned
the new box set's liner notes — tells
Rolling Stone, the band turns the song
into "a high-speed chase, discarding any
notion of maintaining emotional
consistency and reverence, or decorum.
The closest they come to returning to
the tune's original sentimental side is
Herbie Hancock's solo, but even then
Miles snatches it back to energy-mode,
and quickly brings the tune to a close."
BN.
"On July 17th, Columbia/Legacy
Recordings will release the fourth
volume in their ongoing Miles
Davis bootleg series, Miles Davis at
Newport 1955 - 1975 , a collection of
tracks from eight live festival
performances from around the globe.
The four-disc collection boasts four
hours of previously unreleased music,
including Davis' rendition of the jazz
standard, "Stella by Starlight." The track
was recorded live at Newport in 1966
and is now available to hear exclusively
on Rolling Stone.
The furious, free-bop blitz begins simply
and slowly, with Davis and his band —
which at the time boasted drummer
Tony Williams, pianist Herbie Hancock,
tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter and
bassist Ron Carter — delivering "Stella
by Starlight" as the sensitive ballad
Victor Young wrote it as.
Two minutes in, however, as music
historian Ashley Kahn — who penned
the new box set's liner notes — tells
Rolling Stone, the band turns the song
into "a high-speed chase, discarding any
notion of maintaining emotional
consistency and reverence, or decorum.
The closest they come to returning to
the tune's original sentimental side is
Herbie Hancock's solo, but even then
Miles snatches it back to energy-mode,
and quickly brings the tune to a close."
BN.
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