MILES DAVIS jazz LP COLUMBIA 2-eye “Miles in the Sky” NM 2A/2A

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39

Artist:  MILES DAVIS 

Title:   “Miles in the Sky”

Label:   COLUMBIA.  Label is red with black text, “360 SOUND STEREO” 2-eye logo design.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Catalog number is CS 9628. 

Matrix numbers are “-2A” on both sides.

Year:  1966.

Personnel: 

Miles Davis – trumpet

Wayne Shorter – tenor sax

Herbie Hancock – piano & electric piano

Ron Carter – bass

Tony Williams - drums   

George Benson – guitar on “Paraphernalia”

Condition: 

DISC:  NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Appears to have been played one or two times, possibly unplayed.  Labels are pristine.  Fidelity is superb. 

JACKET:   Jacket is stunning NEAR MINT with flawless front and back panels – not a trace of ring or surface wear.  Excellent seams and spine – again, perfectly free of any wear.  Bottom right corner is slightly bumped.  No writing, stickers, or other issues.  A beautiful jacket worthy of display.

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• Stuff
• Paraphernalia

Side Two:

• Black Comedy
• Country Son    

Review:

“With the 1968 album Miles in the Sky, Miles Davis explicitly pushed his second great quintet away from conventional jazz, pushing them toward the jazz-rock hybrid that would later become known as fusion.  Here, the music is still in its formative stages, and it's a little more earth-bound than you might expect, especially following on the heels of the shape-shifting, elusive Nefertiti.  On Miles in the Sky, much of the rhythms are straightforward, picking up on the direct 4/4 beats of rock, and these are illuminated by Herbie Hancock's electric piano -- one of the very first sounds on the record, as a matter of fact -- and the guest appearance of guitarist George Benson on "Paraphernalia."  All of these additions are tangible and identifiable, and they do result in intriguing music, but the form of the music itself is surprisingly direct, playing as extended grooves.  This meanders considerable more than Nefertiti, even if it is significantly less elliptical in its form, because it's primarily four long jams.  Intriguing, successful jams in many respects, but even with the notable additions of electric instruments, and with the deliberately noisy "Country Son," this is less visionary than its predecessor and feels like a transitional album -- and, like many transitional albums, it's intriguing and frustrating in equal measures.”

(courtesy Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com.)

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