Top 5 albums by Miles Davis

Rothko

My top 5 would be:
In A Silent Way
Kind Of Blue
Bitches Brew
On The Corner
Milestones

ToadVine

I'd probably have to put a Tribute to Jack Johnson in my top 5.

Rigsby

ToadVine wrote: »

I'd probably have to put a Tribute to Jack Johnson in my top 5.

I agree.

My other four would be :

Sketches of Spain

E.S.P.

Bitches Brew

Kind of Blue

AJG

Personally speaking because I'm more a fan of electric Miles.

Studio:
In A Silent Way
Bitches Brew
On The Corner
Get Up With It
Big Fun

Live:
Live-Evil
Miles Davis At Fillmore: Live at the Fillmore East
Dark Magus
Black Beauty: Live at the Fillmore West
Live at the Fillmore East, March 7, 1970: It's About That Time

mike65

Miles Ahead
A Kind of Blue
Filles De Kilimanjaro
In a Silent Way
Get Up with It for the best parts (though it would be a killer single album with some editing!)

Echoes675

I love the arrangements on Porgy & Bess. The work that Miles did with Gil Evans is superb.

Milestones would be up there for me too along with Kind of Blue (of course) '58 Sessions, Bitches Brew (I like the 4 cd pack of the sessions better than the original studio album)

tiny_d

Miles Smiles
Live at the Plugged Nickel
Someday My Prince Will Come
Kind of Blue
Cookin'/Relaxin'/Steamin'/Workin' (sorry for cheating, but they were all recorded at the same 2 sessions)

Custardpi

Mostly like his fusion period when he & John McLaughlin created that "far out" (as I believe the expression was at the time) sound. KOB has to be recognised for the genius album it is though too.

1. Tribute to Jack Johnson
2. Live Evil
3. Kind of Blue
4. In A Silent Way
5. Bitches Brew

With regard to the last one, has anyone heard Live At The Isle of Wight? Picked it up on vinyl a couple of years back & it has a great performance of the title track as part of the set.

tiny_d

Custardpi wrote: »

With regard to the last one, has anyone heard Live At The Isle of Wight? Picked it up on vinyl a couple of years back & it has a great performance of the title track as part of the set.

There's a DVD out that has the full Isle of Wight concert on it:-

http://www.amazon.com/Miles-Electric-Different-Kind-Blue/dp/B00069FKN2

It's great stuff, although my personal favourite period is the 'second great quintet' stuff just for the fact that it took the standard 'straight-ahead' jazz genre to a whole new level.

singlesnights

Am I the only person who really likes the stuff he did with Marcus Miller?

Ole Rodrigo

1. In a silent way
2. Sorcerer
3. Tutu
4. Bitches Brew
5. Miles in the sky

( needs to be a top 10 really )

Ole Rodrigo

eoin_mcg wrote: »

I love the arrangements on Porgy & Bess. The work that Miles did with Gil Evans is superb.
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+ 1. With Quincy Jones in Montreux is superb.

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( should have gone in to the top 5 )

Setun

Birth of the Cool (1949)
Round About Midnight (1956)
Porgy and Bess (1958)
Filles de Kilmanjaro (1967)
In a Silent Way (1968)

This list is of course subject to change, although I can never get over Tony Williams' drumming style on Filles de Kilmanjaro. Such amazing colour/texture/rhythms!

lukeduggan97

1. In A Silent Way
2. Kind of Blue
3. Bitches Brew
4. Tribute To Jack Johnson
5. Live-Evil

Setun

Funny to look at this thread where I posted over a year ago, it has predictably changed a bit since then. Jack Johnson is definitely back up there with my favourites again, incredible stuff going on in it.

Zcott

Only one mention of Miles Smiles in the whole thread. One of my favourites.

pugsydoggz

+1 for Jack Johnson

prpb

No love for Cookin' or Workin'? I love those Prestige sessions with Red Garland & Philly Joe Jones