Miles Davis proto-prog

Logan wrote: darkshade wrote: i know why he hasnt been included in the past. Ive tried to get him in here but did not have enough support before. Now it seems the vast majority agree he should be here and he should And he will be.

this is true every time i come on this site i search his name to see if he's here. it feels like it's taking forever haha

i know why he hasnt been included in the past. Ive tried to get him in here but did not have enough support before. Now it seems the vast majority agree he should be here and he should

Hmmm.... I myself do find it a bit strange that the likes of Ambrosia and Talk Talk have somehow been found to be progressive enough to be included on this site despite the whole of  their catalogs being light on progressive music save an album or two, and yet Miles Davis, one of the great musical innovators of all-time, has not. I'm not saying that the former two do not belong, but it is curious that the man, who was at the vanguard of just about every jazz movement from the birth of the cool onward and including jazz rock/fusion, a Prog Archives sub-genre, has been found to not be relevant enough for inclusion thus far. So it appears that Bitches Brew, In a Silent Way, Jack Johnson, On the Corner, and Dark Magus just aren't as progressive as Ambrosia's debut album or Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk.

*spills diet coke in lap* hahhahahhaa

stop it man.. hahahha.. you're killing me

Rocktopus wrote: I am being serious.

not sure why I'm laughing....  that just hits my funny bone....maybe it was at the thought that someone thinking that you weren't serious hahhaha

Rocktopus wrote: darkshade wrote: idk, there's a lot of the jazz-fusion on this site i have trouble calling "prog", should we take those bands and artists off the site? what does prog mean anyway (wait, wrong thread)  Oh, come on. Read first, will you? The discussion is not about that. No, we shouldn't take them off the site, and I never said we should. And I welcome Miles and his whole discography with open arms, even without pretending that he made progalbums for half his career.

i was being sarcastic

idk, there's a lot of the jazz-fusion on this site i have trouble calling "prog", should we take those bands and artists off the site?

what does prog mean anyway (wait, wrong thread)

the facts keep getting thrown around and everything that can be said for why Miles Davis should be on this site has been said already in this thread and others. at this point, I'm waiting to see Miles under "jazz-rock/fusion"...

^ Cheesecakemouse seemed to think he was. That's who I'm replying to. Anyway, now this is just a discussion about Miles and his music, prog, fusion and things like that. No one has been arguing against any of your dead horse points for a while. Atleast not cheese or I. 

Cheesecakemouse wrote: I meant Jazz fusion

Ok. Is it a kind of jazzfusion related to the jazzrockfusion of this site's concern? Would Miles be discussed/added here if we only knew of his releases 81-91 (he temporary retired from music from the mid-seventies up to ca. 1980/81)?

Sorry for all this nitpicking, but I do think its absurd to say that Miles Davis was prog half his career.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: micky wrote: ^ easy.... to be blunt...  screw M@X's policy... and again...  add them as people review them.   can't think of more than a handful that will really get reviewed here.  We'll add the pertinent albums.. and let the others twist in the wind... this is a prog site afterall.. Anyone can add albums once the artist has been added. You won't be able to keep people from adding Kind of Blue ...

of course not...  as I said.. anyone can add them if they wish.