Well, the album proper is studio right, I wanted to include just the studio LPs here so we're comparing apples to apples.
― Mark, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 03:51 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah Seven Steps To Heaven is a studio record -- the Seven Steps box set has all the live stuff.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 03:55 (fourteen years ago) link
That is the one here I haven't heard and it sounds like it may be best.
― Mark, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 03:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow @ Geir. I think that was the most challenging opinion ever, except that it was probably totally sincere.
― pithfork (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 03:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I picked Someday My Prince Will Come
"Someday My Prince" will come. His last really good album until "Tutu".
haha - good old geir...no thread's complete without a deliberately contrary geir opinion!
'someday' is one of the first miles records i ever bought so i have a sentimental connection to this one.
― sknybrg, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 05:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i vote prince just cause i love how jazz cats take these totally gay broadway/disney tunes and turn them into something that's actually really great to listen to, and "someday my prince will come" is a prime example of that.
― messiahwannabe, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 10:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Seven Steps to Heaven and Joshua are really amazing tunes. Weird to think Victor Feldman turned down joining Miles Davis group on piano and later on did percussion work for Steely Dan. Small town. Jazz is like that though, as who knows how things go if Hancock doesn't end up in Miles group.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 15 March 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I was a BIG fan of The Complete Concert -- My Funny Valentine/Four & More. The version of MFV is the bee's knees -- especially that bent note Miles puts on in the intro. Plus, George Coleman acquits himself rather well.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 15 March 2010 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I think George Coleman had a bad situation, not many can fall into a group inbetween John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter and not seem like a step back. Four & More is a fine record. The version of So What on that record really grooves.
― earlnash, Monday, 15 March 2010 03:23 (fourteen years ago) link
george coleman is great!
― tylerw, Monday, 15 March 2010 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't know any of these except Quiet Nights which would appear to be the worst, so I need to catch up: currently obsessed with the second quintet, so I need to see how he got there.
― sonofstan, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I love the bit in Miles' autobiography about Miles walking offstage after his solo and Tony saying to him, "Take George with you." And George playing "out" one night to fuck with Tony's head.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
There was also something about the recording of Four & More/My Funny Valentine in that the intensity of the music was also tied that band was pissed as they got to the gig and found out they were not going to get paid as it was a benefit.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 02:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I just listened closely to Seven Steps for the first time last night. (I'm mostly a '67-'75 and live '80s guy.) Damn, that is some flat-out gorgeous music. I think that to me, that's his /prettiest/ album ever. (of the ones I've heard, that is, but I've heard most of them).
― FunkyTonk, Saturday, 22 December 2012 06:54 (eleven years ago) link