"Beyond the Corner": New Miles Davis Box Set

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.

hmm $45 is a pretty good deal. but do i want the pretty packaging? ie, am I a sucker? Answer: probably.

my wife is telling me that this is not gonna be available in time for my birthday :(

Jax0n:

dolphin trunks = tight fitting shorts similar to the ones the big-booty babe on the OTC album cover wears.

In other news, I am probably the same kind of sucker Tyler probably is.

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 …

Amazon.uk release date now has it coming out Oct. 29. We'll see.

liner notes are great -- good to finally know which Stockhausen he was listening to, Paul Buckmaster's liner notes mention he brought over a copy of the Mixtur / Gruppen LP, and the first night he shows up to crash at Miles' they leave each side playing on repeat for hours. Mixtur is the orchestral piece where each instrument is sent through seperate microphones to filters & ring mods, and the trumpet textures really stick out. He also mentions later seeing a cassette of Hymnen in Miles' Lamborghini.

good to finally know which Stockhausen he was listening to

awes

haha I just saw some old longhaired overweight beardo reading about this in the elevator

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.