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Miles Davis
- Record Label: Sony Legacy
- Release Date: Oct 21, 2016
- Summary: The three-disc set from the Miles Davis Bootleg Series includes recordings from rehearsals, with partial and alternate takes.
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- Record Label: Sony Legacy
- Genre(s): Jazz
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Jan 3, 2017Freedom Jazz Dance features the entire session reels for tracks from Miles Smiles and Nefertiti, complete with studio dialogue, enabling us to hear Miles discussing and directing the music, ironing out details. ... The point when they all seem to realise, as one, what to do with “Nefertiti” is a moment of pure, transcendent joy.
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Dec 8, 2016While some might contend that Freedom Jazz Dance’s exposure of Miles’ working methods divests him of his all-important mystique, rather, the project actually enhances rather than diminishes our appreciation and understanding of him. And that can only be a good thing.
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Dec 8, 2016Hard to believe it was 50 years ago. Nobody’s done it better since, and few have even tried.
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Dec 8, 2016The alternate takes and the lively banter plop you right there in the studio as the artistic process unfolds. It’s what differentiates Freedom Jazz Dance from past volumes of this enthralling series, which were all live concerts that showed how Miles’s groups evolved on the bandstand.
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Dec 8, 2016Much of today’s music draws inspiration from more recent antecedents. Arguably Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5--even as a collection of material originally deemed unsuitable for release--is superior to much of what is new.
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The WireDec 21, 2016The next person who decides to write a book on Miles Davis, or agrees to play him in a movie, will find this set invaluable. But for the casual Davis fan, it’s bound to be a bore and a chore. [Nov 2016, p.76]