Miles Davis + 19, Gil Evans – Miles Ahead (VG+/VG+) – LP, AU 1963
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Miles Ahead is an LP by Miles Davis + 19, Gil Evans from 1963 released on the Coronet label.
About this album
Miles Ahead is a landmark collaboration between Miles Davis and arranger Gil Evans, and one of the most elegant statements in cool jazz. Issued in 1957, it finds Davis’s muted trumpet set against Evans’s richly textured orchestral writing, creating a cinematic sound that broadened the possibilities of modern jazz. Rather than a conventional big-band showcase, the album unfolds like a carefully shaped suite, with pieces such as The Duke and My Ship revealing Davis’s lyrical restraint and Evans’s gift for colour. Its influence on orchestral jazz was immense, and it remains one of Davis’s most admired studio achievements.
Genre: Jazz
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A1 Springsville
A2 The Maids Of Cadiz
A3 The Duke
A4 My Ship
A5 Miles Ahead
B1 Blues For Pablo
B2 New Rhumba
B3 The Meaning Of The Blues
B4 Lament
B5 I Don'T Wanna Be Kissed (By Anyone But You)