miles davis - black beauty: miles davis at fillmore west (2 x 33rpm lp)

Name: miles davis - black beauty: miles davis at fillmore west (2 x 33rpm lp)
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MEDIUM Vinyl Record
WEIGHT 2 x 180gr (black Vinyl) 33rpm
CONDITION sealed
COVER Stoughton Gatefold
CONDITION COVER M mint
COVER DAMAGES No, we take care about that
SERIALNUMBER Yes
LIMITED No
MISCELLANEOUS Stereo
MUSICIAN HOMEPAGE milesdavis.com

Miles Davis - trumpet
Steve Grossman - soprano sax
Chick Corea - electric piano
Dave Holland - electric bass
Jack DeJohnette - drums
Airto Moreira - percussion
Teo Macero - percussion

directions - 10:46
miles runs the voodoo down - 12:22
willie nelson - 6:23
i fall in love too easily - 1:35
sanctuary - 4:01
it's about that time - 9:59
bitches brew - 12:53
masqualero - 9:07
spanish key / the theme - 12:14

Dateline: April 10, 1970
Setting: The storied Fillmore West in San Francisco, CA
Context: Miles Davis, three days removed from his first session for Jack Johnson and, with newly recruited soprano saxophonist Steve Grossman in tow, opening shows for countercultural heroes the Grateful Dead on the latter's home turf

Result: The initial rumblings of a thrilling era in which Davis and his cohorts would again upend jazz and popular conceptions of the genre with music steeped in groove, improvisation, and hang-on-for-your-life adventurousness

All captured on Black Beauty: Miles Davis at Fillmore West

Mastered at MoFi's California studio, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing in California, and housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition 180g 33RPM 2LP set helps bring what went down that spring evening in Bill Graham's venue to your listening room with exceptional clarity, balance, and presence

Originally only released in Japan in 1973 and unavailable in the United States until the late '90s on compact disc, this marks the first time Black Beauty has been issued on domestic vinyl

The wait is worth it

Benefitting from quiet surfaces and excellent definition, these LPs present the band's livewire energy and torrential storm of notes with captivating dynamics, pacing, and fullness

At its core, this audiophile reissue takes you into the walls of sound erected by a band learning on-the-fly the sheer power, will, and breadth of the electric jazz Davis was orchestrating and realizing, on the spot, would reach rock audiences that until that point had only a faint awareness of his mad-scientist experimentation

The sense of release and reach conveyed by these carefully restored records make it clear the veteran bandleader was in the process of a permanent shift that he'd chase for the next five years

Given Davis was only a few months away from releasing the pioneering double album Bitches Brew, it shouldn't come as a surprise that much of the fare here adheres to similar explorative approaches

Turbulent rhythms, provocative trumpet passages, and rich, saturated tonal colors that seemingly splash against a blank canvas take precedence over any traditional attempts at organization and melody

Davis and Co. intentionally play everything on a line with the bandleader signaling changes with his horn via coded phrases

The group speaks a common language - with each member having gone to achieve iconic status for their career contributions and technical prowess

RECORDING April 10 1970 at Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA
ENGINEERING Seth Foster
LABEL Columbia
RE MASTERING Krieg Wunderlich, Shawn R. Britton
MASTER SOURCE 1/4" / 15 IPS Analog Copy to DSD 256 to Analog Console to Lathe
RE RELEASED 2025
AVERAGE RATING 4.86 Stars out of 5
PRESSING by Fidelity Record Pressing
MADE IN USA
STYLE Jazz / Jazz Rock / Jazz Fusion
AVAILABLE as long as inventory stock

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