the most important 2LP

I voted the Beatles but I also like TFTO. My favourite all time dbl albums are: Deep Purple "Made in Japan" and Uriah Heep "Live Downunder" . Oh and I also like Kansas "Two For the Show"

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Where is LED ZEPPELIN'S  "Physical  Graffiti"?  I love "Kashmir", it's my  favourite  track of this classical band...

Man Erg wrote: I voted for Miles as it is one of THE albums that defines a genre.

Which genre and how did it define it? 

 

As I've written many times Bitches Brew is not the precursor to jazz rock - there is at least 5 years of the music before Bitches gets recorded and closer to 7 by the time it was released. A landmark album of jazz fusion, no doubt, but jazz funk more likely - and giving the genre much greater public awareness than previous - while shocking the old farts of the traditional forms of jazz. 

Miles was interested in the James Brown or the Sly & Family Stone soul/dance thing, while in comparison his drummer Tony Williams was more interested in the rock thing; (Lifetime had two albums out before Bitches: Emergency/Turn It Over). While a large number of bands and groups spin out the direct association with Miles (from the period of In A Silent Way or even before), the music they went to played  in the 70's was  distant to that heard on Bitches Brew.  The obvious examples of Mahavishnu Orchestra or RTF, didn't sound like Bitches. You have to move forward to the 90's through to now before you hear real echoes of Bitches, but in modern jazz rock fusion e.g. Adam Holtzman (himself a former Davis sideman), Tom Browne, the nu-fusion of Nils Petter Molvaer, which itself sounds to be  derived from Jon Hassell's mid 90's albums, and in French jazz dance groups like No Jazz or Largo. Who would dare imitate Miles whilst he was alive? The ten years after Miles premature death, Wynton Marsalis held sway wrt trumpet. Thanks goodness young jazz musicians are no longer in such awe of what Marsalis says, and doing their own thing, and now jazz with all its sub-genres can move forward at a faster rate.

In passing there is new biography about the last years of Miles' life, which describes Miles being into Prince and rap (amongst other black music) - apparently there are recordings of Miles Davis and rappers (shock, horror, do I hear), that lay in the archives.

Edited by Dick Heath

I cannot get now more. The phenomenon of 2LP appeared together with the more progressive music when musicians needed more space for their expressions and ideas. Now, in the time of CDs and mp3s, it has no sense to make 2LPs, but anyway, I like these old vinyl 2LPs wherein you could read as in a book. I would voice for Genesis, but I put my voice for Progres 2 since no one other will, surely. It is a group which in the former Czechoslovakia was an exceptional example of the superb progressive rock with big themes, light concerts and of course 2LPs.