Miles Davis - Big Fun Double LP - Vinyl is NM - 1974 Columbia PG 32866
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Totally clean copy of Miles Davis "Big Fun" on Columbia, PG32866 from 1974. Before listing I played all 4 sides and it played perfect... you will not be disappointed.
Big Fun is a compilation album by American jazz musician Miles Davis. It was released by Columbia Records on April 19, 1974, and compiled recordings Davis had made in sessions between 1969 and 1972. Largely ignored in 1974, it was reissued on August 1, 2000, by Columbia and Legacy Records with additional material, which led to a critical reevaluation.
Big Fun presents music from three different phases of Miles Davis's early-seventies "electric" period.
Sides one and four ("Great Expectations/Orange Lady" and "Lonely Fire") were recorded three months after the Bitches Brew sessions and incorporate sitar, tambura, tabla, and other Indian instruments. They also mark the first time since the beginning of Miles Davis's electric period that he played his trumpet with the Harmon mute which had been one of his hallmarks, making it sound much like the sitar. This contributed to creating a very clear and lean sound, highlighting both the high and low registers, as opposed to the busier sound of Bitches Brew which placed more emphasis on the middle and low registers.
"Ife" - named after James Mtume's daughter was recorded after the 1972 On the Corner sessions, and the framework is similar to tracks from that record. It has a drum and electric bass groove (which in fact at one point breaks down due to mistiming) and a plethora of musicians improvising individually and in combinations over variations on the hypnotic bassline.
Musicians
"Great Expectations/Orange Lady" (19 November 1969 – Columbia Studio E)- Miles Davis – trumpet
- Steve Grossman – soprano saxophone
- Bennie Maupin – bass clarinet
- John McLaughlin – electric guitar
- Khalil Balakrishna – electric sitar
- Bihari Sharima – tabla, tamboura
- Herbie Hancock – electric piano
- Chick Corea – electric piano
- Ron Carter – double bass
- Harvey Brooks – Fender bass guitar
- Billy Cobham – drums
- Airto Moreira – percussion
- Miles Davis – electric trumpet with wah wah
- Sonny Fortune – soprano saxophone, flute
- Bennie Maupin – clarinet, flute
- Carlos Garnett – soprano saxophone
- Lonnie Liston Smith – electric piano
- Harold I. Williams, Jr. – electric piano
- Michael Henderson – electric bass
- Al Foster – drums
- Billy Hart – drums
- Badal Roy – tabla
- James Mtume – African percussion
"Go Ahead John" (3 March 1970 – Columbia Studio E)
- Miles Davis – trumpet
- Steve Grossman – soprano saxophone
- John McLaughlin – electric guitar
- Dave Holland – bass guitar
- Jack DeJohnette – drums
- Miles Davis – trumpet
- Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone
- Bennie Maupin – bass clarinet
- Khalil Balakrishna – sitar, Indian instruments
- Chick Corea – electric piano
- Joe Zawinul – electric piano, Farfisa organ
- Dave Holland – double bass
- Harvey Brooks – Fender bass guitar
- Jack DeJohnette – drums
- Billy Cobham – drums
- Airto Moreira – Indian instruments, percussion
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