"Beyond the Corner": New Miles Davis Box Set

aha! news! sort of! from paul tingen's Miles Beyond site:

"I've been receiving several e-mails from folk in the US complaining that the On The Corner boxed set has still to turn up, and wanting to know why. I called Sony Legacy, and they tell me that they have production and transportation problems. The box is apparently rather difficult to make, involving a metal casing with embossed imprint, and is made in China. Small shipments are trickling into the US, and the Legacy representative couldn't say where they would be available first. The company doesn't even have promotional copies yet."

looks like a boss box too:

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

nice detail with the raised embossment: they gave the blonde guy all the way on the left a glaringly huge package

sorry, all the way on the right (we knew that)

I can never look at the guy in the green suit without seeing The Rev. Al Sharpton.

After seeing the packaging, I think I went from mere lust to full-out fuckwant.

Vote Miles!

I can never look at the guy in the green suit without seeing The Rev. Al Sharpton.

-- Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 8 October 2007 22:34

lol otm

i totally have a vote miles shirt xpost

After seeing the packaging, I think I went from mere lust to full-out fuckwant.

-- The Reverend, Tuesday, October 9, 2007 5:35 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

same here. i am a little ashamed...

The company doesn't even have promotional copies yet."

Um...then why are there so many advance reviews? I suspect Sony/Legacy is doing some leg-pulling.

They sent out advances (plain white sleeve w/6 CD-Rs in it; I got one, obviously. But they haven't yet sent full-art copies out to reviewers who wrote the thing up based on advances, which they usually do.

I can never look at the guy in the green suit without seeing The Rev. Al Sharpton.

-- Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, October 8, 2007 6:34 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

me too!

Listened to Bill Laswell's 'On The Corner (Subterranean Channel Mix)' from Panthalassa: The Remixes. I can't decide if he improved on Teo Macero's edits by making the track more structured, or if he just made it sound like any Material album. Leaning towards the former.

Andy K was spot on, this really does make you want to stop listening to everything else. I haven't heard any of the other complete sessions boxes-- I figured tight editing is part of what made the originals so great, didn't want to spend the dough-- but this is just incredible.

Free me!

If anyone's on Ruckus.com (free DRM'd downloads if you've got a .edu e-mail address, probably US-only), the whole thing's there.

ok wow a friend told me about ruckus but i just assumed it didn't have anything cool on it.

thx dude!

Oh man Ruckus looks fantastic. How about a five years defunct .edu e-mail address? :(

you can reg as an alumni

You have to be able to get mail at the .edu address, is the thing. That's what you'll be registered under.

Interview with Henderson, Cosey, and Liebman – some sort of promotion for the box:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VFUhV_ciNQg

Says 'part 1 of 3' but I can't find the others …

-- Brakhage, Friday, October 5, 2007 5:21 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

The whole interview video - with bits of live footage! is on the official site.

sweeeeeet

so... this is finally available now?

It's out. I want it.

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Corner-Sessions-Miles-Davis/dp/B000TLMWMO/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1194565441&sr=8-1

xp

*sigh*

will have to wait til Xmas

Jazzbos be rich. I wish these weren't so damned expensive.

I wish these weren't so damned expensive.

-- jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, November 8, 2007 11:48 PM

tru tru tru! (jazzbos also be shameful pirates) :(

xxpost
Yes if one's lucky... Please everyone don't buy all of these

That booklet looks gorgeous! As the rest of it.

i'm in the same boat as shakey ... mom, if you're reading this ...

reissue of the year

Fuck that—there's way too much "new" music on there for that definition to hold much water! Album of the year—period!

I wish these weren't so damned expensive.

-- jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, November 8, 2007 3:48 PM (Thursday, November 8, 2007 3:48 PM) Bookmark Link

thirded

I mean, really, is there any reason beyond "people will pay anything for these" that they are so expensive? The packaging is beautiful, but I've seen more lavishly packaged boxsets for significantly less. I just don't see why these can't be in the $50-$70 range or "rock" boxsets.

seems like the prices of these things always goes down eventually ... i think you can get that cellar door set for $60 and it was originally priced way up there ... and the older sets are even cheaper -- though I guess the Silent Way box is only three discs, Bitches Brew only four. Sony just wants to gouge the diehards at first.

The Cellar Door box had a lower list price when it was released, with the same number of discs. Looks like Sony is hoping people will wanna shell just for the (admittedly gorgeous) packaging.

A lot of these sets - all of 'em up through the Jack Johnson set, in fact - have been reissued in cheaper, no-metal-spine packaging. Behold.

I'd like to see links to some reviews, or comments here, that go into more detail about the previously unreleased material. With Get Up With It and On The Corner sitting on my shelf, I'm having a hard time psyching myself up to pay the freight. I was put off the In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew boxes by reviews suggesting these collections don't add a whole lot to the Macero-assembled albums. This caveat seems like it might apply even more strongly to On The Corner.

On the other hand, PETE COSEY

It's exactly the other way around, actually. For me, the Jack Johnson and On the Corner boxes have been by far the most satisfying and interesting ones of the lot.

Also, this review goes into a fair amount of detail concerning the previously unreleased stuff in the box:

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

I'm only about halfway through disc three of this, but HOLY SHIT. This is much better than the Bitches Brew set, which I wasn't crazy about anyway, and better than the In A Silent Way set, which I was and am crazy about. This really does top everything. And in the right mood, man, it tops EVERYTHING. It's the best music you've ever heard. I have been listening to it since I popped in disc one, and will not likely stop until I have heard it all. Not a lot of things make me sit still for seven hours. This is insanely good. No, really.

I like Matos' review. Thanks for that.

Somebody hook a brotha up.

Tall order, brotha... this is a lot of bits to upload. (Checking sizes...) Even at 192, it's about 600 megs.

If you do, I promise not to start any threads or polls for a week.

Aiight... check your mail, both of you.

kenan, I kiss you.

Fuck that, I make sweet love to you, in a platonic way, of course.

http://www.jakelegstompers.com/Graphics/Clip1Ron.jpg

gis for platonic sweet love

That looks about right.

Please, both of you, do not bother.

I'm finding that Matos' characterization of disc 4 as "something to stretch out on" is half true -- the first 32-minute track is still pretty hot, but "He Loved Him Madly" is 32 minutes of just niiiice. Not melodic, oh no, never that, but niiiice. Then "Maiysha" at the start of disc 5 eases you back in, before it all goes wonderfully pear-shaped again.