Miles Davis - In A Silent Way

I don't think Shrieve played bass. I found a youtube of a portion of that Chicago concert and the personnel are
John McLaughlin - Guitar (double-neck)
Carlos Santana - Guitar
Khalid Yasin (aka Larry Young) - Organ, Keyboards
Doug Rauch - Bass
Billy Cobham - Drums
Armando Peraza - Percussions

http://youtu.be/O-0u2juyLYc

Rauch was Santana's bassist at the time iirc. The torrent for that show is easy to find, but nobody's seeding -- it's been sitting on zero for 6 hrs now.

I couldn't remember who Santana's bassist was, is all. Shrieve's name popped into my head.

IIRC there's one billy cobham record i like a lot but i can't remember the title and i'm not at home

i like the first bill laswell LP (baselines) and some of the early material stuff.

i've also developed a taste for some of santana's fusion records from the early 70s, but i do find myself wincing at times while listening to them

I love that whole stretch of Santana stuff from '72-'75: Caravanserai, Love Devotion Surrender, Illuminations (with Alice Coltrane), Welcome, and especially Lotus, which sounds like Santana trying to make his own version of Agharta.

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I'd guess you mean Cobham's Spectrum album?

Wow, checking out Illuminations now.

I saw Santana in 74, and my memory of that night is much like Lotus. Redeems every dorky thing he's done since.

yeah he's traveled a strange road.

Always given flakey interviews, and when I saw him do a guest turn w Miles in a long 80s concert vid, he played all over everybody, chewed the scenery 4ever; Miles got in one sardonic oblique-stroke note at the very end, upstaged the whole performance.
Anybody heard The Swing of Delight? Described here by allmusic's William Ruhlmann:
For his second "solo" album, Carlos Santana used Miles Davis' famed '60s group--Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams -- plus members of the current Santana band, for a varied, jazz-oriented session that was one of his more pleasant excursions from the standard Santana sound. (Originally released as a double-LP, The Swing of Delight was reissued on a single CD.)

Wow, hadn't heard of that. I'd be curious to hear it, but sadly, by that time, whatever was left of Williams' brilliance had completely vanished.

I just got it (along with a lot of the other late '70s through late '80s band and "solo" albums) last night; will check it out this week.

thankfully you can't see santana's guitar face while you listen to record

I never found any use for Carlos Santana

smdh

Hurting, check out Caravanserai if you haven't.

The torrent for that show is easy to find, but nobody's seeding -- it's been sitting on zero for 6 hrs now.

Don't know if you use slsk but I was able to find it on there.

hurting i am digging that wayne shorter track upthread, that is great

yeah, that's my jam

It's a Milton Nascimiento (who is singing) tune. He recorded at least a couple earlier versions of the song that are also great.

the hubbard is really good too, it reminded me that i have red clay somewhere on my shelves, need to pull that out again!

percussion on mr clean is outstanding

u probably know this but Red Clay = tribe sample

yea!

Can we talk about how great the organ cold open is on this album? Like the first five seconds?

I had five seconds to spare so I thought I'd check. I agree.

i agree!

Has anyone heard the Mobile Fidelity vinyl reissue? I spotted it for $30 and it sure looks nice. I'm not a super hi-fi enthusiast or anything but this is one of my all time favorite albums (esp if you count the box set, which puts it firmly in the top 5) and I imagine it'll sound pretty sweet on the Rega. I actually don't own a vinyl copy of this, either, so it wouldn't be a redundant purchase, necessarily (though I've made many of those over the years). I don't think I own any Mobile Fidelity releases. Should I get it?

the organ sound on this is perhaps the best i've heard on any record.

a good remastered CD of this will sound better than any vinyl copy

and it will set you back $7

http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Way-Miles-Davis/dp/B00006GO9Q/

Just heard Mal Waldron's album The Call (recorded in Germany 1971)& it has a definite In A Silent Way vibe.

I have this on CD - a few times over, actually! Also have the box set. So you don't think the 'half speed master' or whatever makes any discernible difference? I will say that my reissued mono copy of Round About Midnight is one of the sweetest sounding LPs I own (and again, I'm not the type to notice such things unless they're really obvious)

if the CD remastering is done well--and it is, at least on the versions from the late 1990s and early 2000s that i know--then i don't see how the LP can really top it, given the inhering limitations of vinyl playback. i mean, if you prefer the sound of vinyl with all the added static etc. then by all means get the vinyl.

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"the call" is a great album. i've been listening to a lot of mal waldron recently.

if i had to engage in an exercise as silly as picking a best album of all time, there are some days when it would be this one.

This, A Kind Of Blue and Big Fun make me think of Mozart, Rachmaninov, Schubert and the whole fucking universe. Miles is so amazing at his peak.

Jimmy, that's a pretty good price for a Mofi pressing; if you want it on vinyl and don't want to wait for an original to turn up it's probably worth it. The CD does sound quite good, though, and can be easily found for $5-6 in stores.

Holy smokes this Mal Waldron record is dope.

Jimmy, that's a pretty good price for a Mofi pressing; if you want it on vinyl and don't want to wait for an original to turn up it's probably worth it. The CD does sound quite good, though, and can be easily found for $5-6 in stores.

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Thanks! Got it on hold at the record store. I figure, at the very least, it won't be a bummer to own it on vinyl, even if it doesn't blow my mind.

It's 'Silent Way,' it will blow your mind regardless.

Holy smokes this Mal Waldron record is dope.

^^^ yeah, I was totally unfamiliar with this, thanks for the tip.

yeah i just got turned on to that too -- is waldron's other 70s stuff along those lines?

^^^ yeah, I was totally unfamiliar with this, thanks for the tip.

Same here, thanks!

Mal Waldron is great! Hard Talk is amazing - gets wilder than silent way tho

My Mal Waldron experience is limited to the three live Five Spot albums with Eric Dolphy and Booker Little, which I love madly. I should hear the one referenced itt!

yeahhh those five spot albums are so amazing. maldron's on a few mingus things from the 50s too, and I've got a couple albums of stuff with coltrane (also from the 50s). but i really don't know anything about the later phase of his career. seems like I've got to catch up!

his album "first encounter" w/gary peacock rules too (getting off the vibe of of this thread) but just in general he's excellent

The only Waldron that comes to mind is "Up Popped the Devil" which is great. I'll have to check out some of these others.

y'all know about waldron's work with the band embryo, right? it's not quite the world-historical event that a free jazz/krautrock crossover could and should have been, but it's quite good.

wait i forgot that "the call" /is/ embryo, essentially.

anyway your next stop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbRlAygcMFo