"Beyond the Corner": New Miles Davis Box Set

out in two weeks...

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Corner-Sessions-Miles-Davis/dp/B000TLMWMO/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-9216729-9930861?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1189002659&sr=1-1

Holy mutha 'o' God!

$120!!!

Gah!

Weep for my unborn children's future.

Yeah, why is it so much? Everything I've said says it's 6 cds. But at full price ($140, before the discount), that comes out to $23 a cd. Even at $120 that's $20 a cd. I guess they've thinking that anyone still buying Miles in 2007 has serious cash flow?

it's SO GREAT

No doubt! But that price!??!

This summer I put on "Rated X" in the car, and after about a minute my four-year old son had his hands over his ears, and begged me to turn it off, because he said it was scaring him.

Yeah, that sounds about right. He should at least thank his lucky stars that you didn't put on Agharta or Dark Magus.

This box is ridiculously, unbelievably great. The unreleased stuff is in the same spirit as the album stuff, but totally different. Raunchier, tighter...there's one track from 1975 that's almost Chuck Mangione-like in its melodic jazzfunkiness, but then Miles's solo is this wave of contemptuous discord running straight through the middle.

*still* waiting for this (but thanks to unperson for getting me started!)

It might be the best thing ever made (the box).

Not the box itself but the music that makes up the box.

In the way that it makes you want to stop listening to everything else for a week or so.

found a place that is selling it for $99.99, but you have to pre-order it:

http://ssl.adhost.com/jazzloft/baskets/pos.cfm?CD=13035

This better come with the biggest book ever!

Honestly I don't know when I am going to be able to justify shelling out $120 in one pop for a CD set where I already own the central record, but boy does this sound amazing.

gimme

50 pounds from Amazon.uk. Works out to about 78 euros for me (inc. s/h to Greece). Not bad. Probably not a very good idea to order from the US, though.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000TLMWMO/202-6023791-6219064

stop making me want this ...

If I spent $30 bucks on the Rhino Handmade Cactus live thing (which was well worth it), I can sure do $120 for this.

I jsut found the Jack Johnson box for $26 so now I have money left over for this. Maybe in two months...

CD Universe has it for $105.54!
http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?PID=7484370&style=music&frm=frooglemusic

Great Matos review of the box (btw, I think the last line was appropriate given the album's history, and made me laugh out loud, besides {hmm., maybe you were right in wanting it cut after all])! Can't wait to actually hear the damn thing.:

http://www.citypaper.com/music/story.asp?id=14562

Yeah, I may the damn thing even though I'm no fan of the original.

is it actually out? amazon has suddenly shifted to 4-6 weeks...

Amazon.uk release date has it coming out on Oct. 10. Oh the wait...

That's a great review.

yeah - man that's an ugly cover tho

don't think that's the actual cover -- just an illustration to go with the review ...
i want this set bad, but i'll probably have to wait til xmas. dang.

"Apparently, Vince Wilburn (Miles' nephew) had some issue with it and pulled it at the 11th hour. This happened with the Cellar Door set and delayed it a couple months IIRC. Rumor has it it should be released the first week of October."

I wonder if I could get a pair of "Vote Miles" dolphin trunks made at neighborhoodies or someplace similar.

I know for damn sure I wouldn't have the guts to wear them.

i think the artwork is the figures from the album sleeve somehow transposed onto the brushed-bronze box the Jack Johnson set came in

http://www.miles-beyond.com/images/albums/otcset.jpg

okay that's much better!

that is fly

That's lovely.

ok, so it's the first week of october. where's the box? any truth to the rumor that the cover art is being stickered over with a big picture of vince wilburn with the caption, "did you know that miles davis was my uncle? huh? didja?"

So I'm going to take this box set's release, and my recent interest in the music of Funkadelic and Sly & the Family Stone, as signs that I should listen to On the Corner.

what are dolphin trunks?

i've always wanted a Vote Miles shirt or button

Great review, Phil.

Um, link?

Yeah, there's no mention of it on Phil's blog.

Haven't posted the link there yet, but here 'tis.

Nice. Thanks for the link, Phil.

there's a decent sized feature on this in the new Wax Poetics (Miles on the cover). Interviews with Cosey and Henderson -- don't think I've read too many interviews with those two. I bought it, but I haven't read it yet. Gah, I really really want this box set -- anyone find any decent deals on it?

45 bucks offa itunes

and oh hey it's awesome

Sweet.