Aura (Miles-Davis-Album)
Occupation
- Trumpet: Miles Davis
- Trumpet and flugelhorn: Benny Rosenfeld, Idrees Sulieman, Jens Winther, Palle Bolvig, Perry Knudsen, Palle Mikkel Borg
- Woodwinds: Bent Jædig, Flemming Madsen, Jesper Thilo, By Carsten Uffe Karskov
- Guitars: Bjarne Roupé and John McLaughlin
- Bass: Niels -Henning Ørsted Pedersen
- E -Bass: Bo Stief
- Drums: Lennart Gruvstedt
- Electronic Drums: Vince Wilburn
- Percussion: Ethan Weisgaard and Marilyn Mazur
- Harp: Lillian Thornquist
- Oboe and English Horn: Niels Eje
- Vocals: Eva Thaysen
Aura is a music album by jazz musician Miles Davis, in which all pieces of Palle Mikkel Borg were composed and arranged. It was in 1990 awarded the Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental performance ( Big Band ); Davis won another Grammy for his solo performances.
Genesis
Palle Mikkel Borg aura composed in 1984, after Miles Davis in November 1984 won the Léonie Sonning Music Prize. Davis did not want to accept the award, so that Erik Moseholm, one of the advisers of the Prize Committee, the United States was sent to talk to him and convince him. After Davis had seen the list of previous award winners, he felt honored, as the price was up to that white classical musicians reserved.
A condition of the prize was that the winners in Copenhagen had to play music during the ceremony. The prize committee wanted to let it perform a newly composed works. First, Gil Evans was asked; after the latter made no proposal, asked the committee to the case of two living in Denmark composers, in which Americans Ray Pitts and Mikkel Borg, which should contribute both compositions for the celebration. The resulting composition Mikkel Borg was a mixture of " orchestral and electronic music " ..
The composition, reminiscent in some of its tones of Gil Evans, wanted to capture the music "Aura" by Miles Davis. Mikkel Borg Davis was able to persuade even " with the best of Danish jazz musicians " participate as a trumpeter in the recording, which he recorded with an extended to a number of prominent guests formation around the Danish Radio Big Band. It was the first recording of Miles Davis with a big band for 22 years. Although the recordings were made in 1985, the CD was not published until 1989.
It was the last Miles Davis album, released on Columbia Records. As Davis wrote in his biography, let him hang Columbia, and he had to finance the recording of the album with money from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts. According to the vice president of the record label, George Butler, who insisted to release the album after he had listened to the tapes, the marketing department had not realized the significance of the album and was of the opinion that the album would be hard to sell. Aura was released due to the delay of several years until parallel with the Davis album Amandla.
Davis learned during the recording percussionist Marilyn Mazur know his future. He brought his nephew Vincent Wilburn with the recordings in order to achieve a " certain drum sound ", whom he knew from the previous albums. He also occupied after the beginning of the recordings to the guitar after he heard that John McLaughlin happened to be in the Danish capital.
The Music
Mikkel Borg built the opening sentence of the existing suite of ten sentences on the ten letters of the name MILES DAVIS; he equate each with specific tones to gain from a basic chord of the piece. The piece begins with the guitar McLaughlin, then steer toward the product obtained from the name issue. The other sets are named after the colors in which the composer allegedly perceived the aura of Davis; the sets are still available for particular periods in the work of Davis. The piece was, according to Mikkel Borg as " an orchestral tribute to his life in these seven colors " meant.
Originally it was planned that Davis would only in the last sentence contribute a solo.
Davis was very impressed by the size of the orchestra, and the composition of the underlying idea. Davis finally returned in 1985, after he had finished the recordings for You're Under Arrest to record aura. He eventually played in almost all sets; also he caused that part of the written material was not used. Only in Indigo is not heard Davis.
Todd S. Jenkins said at All About Jazz Album, if it were the album from the post- Bitches Brew phase, which could be regarded as 'essential '. " Pure magic, from first to last note " For Wes Long is the album a " masterpiece" and " probably the last monumental achievement " in the work of trumpeter dar. All Music gave the album, however, only three out of five stars.
Title list
All pieces were composed and arranged by Palle Mikkel Borg.