Miles Davis to be added to the Prog Archives

The whole diccography policy (which I don't neccessariy support) does save us from even more bickering. Could you imagine all the arguing that would happen if we went through Genesis' later output and tried to decide which albums belonged and which didn't.

Edited by Easy Money - August 10 2008 at 08:16

should i start a Herbie Hancock thread? being he was mentioned a few times here and on the other thread. He has the same problem Miles has with the discography thing, except HH made rock albums early in his career (68 or 69 with Fat Albert Rotunda) and a lot of his early jazz 'hits' were given a 'rock makeover' like Watermelon Man, Maiden Voyage, Catelope Island, etc...

not to mention he's the only Miles alumni from the 60s and 70s who made progressive rock/jazz-fusion to not be here on this site. Shorter, Zawinul, McLaughlin, Williams, Corea, etc are all here, not to mention his other peers like Pat Metheny, Jaco (WR), Al Di Meola, and made waaaaayyy more progressive music than these guys did.

After Miles and Larry Coryell, Herbie Hancock was the most influential and active in the jazz-fusion movement.


Edited by darkshade - August 13 2008 at 22:28

so since they're locked, i could just start a new thread? and perhaps quote from the older threads?

darkshade wrote: should i start a Herbie Hancock thread?

Will you start it soon? I look forward to it.

Been searching for every Mwandishi-related fusion album I could find the last two years, and there's quite a few excellent ones.

I found strong debuts by most his band members:

Eddie Henderson (two albums actually, Realization & Inside Out with virtually the same lineup as the original Mwandishi sextet),

Bennie Maupin (The Jewel in the Lotus),

Julian Priester (Love, Love)

Buster Williams (Pinnacle)

These are are all a direct continuation of Herbie's Mwandishi project.  And excellent contributions too. Looking for a couple of Charles Earland albums (Leaving This Planet & The Dynamite Brothers) featuring techno wiz Dr. Patrick Gleeson.

Easy Money wrote: I think there is at least one more Julian Preister album in that style, I can't remember the name.

Polarization. Haven't found it yet.

darkshade wrote: Been searching for every Mwandishi-related fusion album I could find the last two years, and there's quite a few excellent ones. Well there's only 3 - Crossings, Mwandisi, and Sextant. After that if was the Headhunters band, and they released 4 albums and 1 live album with Hancock. After that it was just Herbie Hancock solo. And he released fusion albums until about 1980. Not to mention he was involved with jazz-rock way before the Mwandishi band existed.

I know, I know... there's only three real Mwandishi-sextet albums (I got four-five live-bootlegs). But some of his bandmembers made some brilliant substitutes for fans like myself,  who's crazy about this period. And I'm not that much of a fan of his Headhunters/funk albums. I know its top quality stuff, but its just not my bag.

Hancock is in the lineup on the Eddie Henderson albums himself, and especially Realization sounds like a natural continuation. I think of that one, Love, Love, The Jewel in the Lotus and to some extent Inside Out as Mwandishi-albums (although I guess they're not, technically speaking).

Just ordered Polarization.

 

Great work guys!!

Guys... as I already suggested in the past ... we want  complete discography of each artist in PA .

Also .. can some suggest a couple of mp3s for Miles ?

wow there's a lot of missing albums. I shall get to work.

Very good bio, the only thing i disagree with is that Miles' electric period really began in 67 and has been discussed to death. Also, his jazz-rock years continued into the 90s before he began making more acid jazz/hip hop albums

but still glad to see him here!

MikeEnRegalia wrote: The only problem I have with this inclusion is that he recorded so many albums which aren't Fusion.