Emergency! (1969) ...
One of the first and defining jazz-fusion records, and a major influence on Miles Davis ...
Emergency! ...
In many ways this record works as a companion piece to Davis' In a Silent Way and Filles de Kilimanjaro.
As well, Larry Young's organ playing differs greatly from the jazz
organists of the era who played primarily soul- and funk-jazz. Young's
style grooves closer to the sounds that were being used primarily in
rock bands of the era. In this sense, the organ adds an almost spacey
and trippy effect to the sound. But Young used jazz keyboard influences
and textures for his solos. This mixture makes for a huge- sounding and
eclectic record. Trevor Maclaren ...
Emergency! whole album ...
Live Emergency! NY radio broadcast 1969 ...
Filles de Kilimanjaro (1968) ...
Although all of the later experiments with avant-garde fusion make great records, this album (and possibly Nefertiti) are my favourite Miles Davis from the 1960s ...
Tout de Suite ...
Filles de Kilimanjaro ...
Kilimanjaro Coffee, in which MD had made an investment ...
Mademoiselle Mabry ...
For Mrs Betty O. Mabry Davis, who is also the cover star ...
"Filles is performed (and edited) like a suite, with a sense of
flow unlike anything Davis had recorded up to that point. That flow is
enhanced by a music played all in one key (F), with only five 'tunes,'
and with a mood and rhythms that change gradually from start to finish" ... Downbeat, John Ephland...
Ephland concluded in his review, "In passing, Filles de Kilimanjaro
is a turning-point album unlike any other for Davis: For the first
time, his bebop roots were essentially severed, rockier rhythms,
electricity and ostinato-driven bass lines now holding sway"...
Little stuff ...
