rubber soul

Best Miles Davis album: Sketches of Spain hands down

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SGR

It's got a lot of redeeming factors but one thing that's always irked me about that record is how high and how shrill Miles' trumpet sounds in the mix. For the Gil Evans stuff, I think I prefer Porgy and Bess as a whole.

Edit: Because Miles has a lot of celebrated albums, even some of his celebrated stuff is missed by many. Take for example this incredibly beautiful piece that opens up Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet:



Or the entirety of the film score he did for the 1958 French film Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (his album score has the same name) - listening to it makes you feel like a cool but castoff detective, down on his luck, smoking a cigarette while you walk the sparsely lit streets of New Orleans in the '50s - and goddamnit, the cigarette just won't stay burning:

jadis

Everyone realizes that it's just your opinion but somehow it's still annoying


Yeah a film famous for the soundtrack and the female lead (imho the single greatest French actress): "The best performance, by far, is that of Moreau, because Malle includes extended scenes of her essentially doing nothing—wandering the streets of Paris at night and contemplating her troubles—and he had the inspiration to notice that Moreau doing almost nothing is an absorbing spectacle in itself."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icJw9HXXoXA

Probably my favorite track from that soundtrack


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvwB...lesDavis-Topic

SGR

is the movie worth watching then? I've never actually seen it, only know about it because of Miles.

Lisnaholic

^ Everyone realizes that it's just your opinion but somehow it's still an interesting, on-topic answer to my question. Thanks.

My own experience with Miles Davis:-
Kind of Blue = I was disappointed with how old-fashioned it sounded
Bitches Brew = I was disappointed with how modern it sounded
In A Silent Way = The Goldilocks zone for me

The little I've heard of that Paris movie soundtrack I liked very much, but largely because it seems designed to flesh out McLaren's Paris album, though of course, chronologically, it's the other way round.

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