Water Babies (album)

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Water Babies is a jazz album by Miles Davis. It contains material that was on the 7th, 13th and 23 June 1967 and on 11 and 12 November 1968 in various occupations and appeared in 1976 on Columbia Records.

Making of the album and the recordings

The major label Columbia had to meet during the illness break by Miles Davis from 1975 to 1981, the increasing demand for records of the trumpeter; In addition to the compilations of unreleased studio recordings Directions ( 1981) and Circle in the Round (1979 ) as well as live recordings ( Miles Davis at Plugged Nickel, Chicago ) was published in 1976 material from one phase of the musician, the " increasing electrification " of the band with the addition company represents of electric piano and bass guitar.

The music of the A- side of the album with the three Shorter compositions Water Babies, Capricorn and Sweet Pea ( the Shorter Billy Strayhorn dedicated ) was in the cast of the " second Miles Davis Quintet " ( Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams) in the phase of Nefertiti Sessions 1967; the remaining two titles in November 1968, where Chick Corea played with Hancock electric piano Dave Holland and Ron Carter replaced on bass. This falls in the period between the Filles de Kilimanjaro and In a Silent Way sessions in February 1969. Wayne Shorter published his three compositions of the A- side on the Blue Note album supernova.

In 2002, the enhanced CD version of the album was released as a bonus track with the recorded on November 12, 1968 Title Splash, the (opposite the published in 1979 on the Circle in the Round version ) and the Keyboard Introduction of Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea contains.

Title list

  • Miles Davis: Water Babies (Columbia PC 34396 )

A1 Water Babies ( Shorter) 5:06 A2 Capricorn ( Shorter) 8:27 A3 Sweet Pea ( Shorter) 7:59 B1 Two Faced ( Shorter) 18:01 B2 Dual Mr. Tillman Anthony ( Davis) 13:18

Reception

Bob Blumenthal praised the album after its release in 1977 in Rolling Stone ("some of its best music There is simply so much happening here, .. Hear it " ) and compared the three Shorter compositions of the A-side with Wayne Shorter's album Supernova. In this context, the critics Herbie Hancock quoted comment of 1969 ( "Miles shapes ... all the tunes did come into his band " ) and confirmed the tendency of the band leader to suppress the more extroverted tendencies of his musicians. He particularly praised the Tony Williams 'single basin insert behind Davis ' solo on Water Babies and its melodic accompaniment for Shorter in the same piece, the " overwhelming " is. In Capricorn, the focus lies in the use of the piano - Hancock playing his solo only with the right hand. Miles Davis himself rekurriere with his own solo on his game in 1956, while Ron Carter and Tony Williams played in a more contemporary style. Shorter's composition Two Faced (from the November 1968 session) sounded "like a dry run for the In a Silent Way Sessions"; brilliant were the rolling keyboard figures of the two pianists. Dual Mr. Tillman Anthony ( the Davis earned under the pseudonym W. Process; Tillman is the first first name of Tony Williams' father ) is a funky, syncopated riff, 14 bars long, which is repeated for 13 minutes of Corea, Carter and Dave Holland will.

Jim Santella wrote in All About Jazz, the last two album titles Dual Mr. Anthony Tillmon Williams Process and Splash documented the change in Miles Davis ' music, which was brewing in his ensemble sound. In summary, he praised: Water Babies is a collector's item did Continues to capture our imaginations with every listen.

Scott Yanow awarded the album at Allmusic 3 ½ ( out of five) stars and said:

Record label Genre Electronic keyboard Blue Note Records
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