8 thoughts on “ Footprints - Miles Davis Quintet* - Miles Smiles (CD, Album) ”

1. Miles Smiles, an Album by Miles Davis Quintet. Released 13 October on Legacy (catalog no. CK ; CD). Genres: Modal Jazz, Post-Bop. Featured peformers: Bob Belden (liner notes), Michael Cuscuna (remixer), Mark Wilder (remixer), Howard Fritzson (art direction), Randall Martin (design), Jan Persson (photography), Nicholas Bennett (packaging).

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2. Second Miles Davis albums with his new Quintet is almost excellent album of post-bop jazz. Miles continues to explore new sounds and structures, his music is gone from cool jazz and hard-bop to more modern sound, and the musicians are all future stars: Herbie Hancock (piano),Ron Carter (bass),Wayne Shorter (saxophone) and Tony Williams (drums)/5(8).

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3. From the album "Miles Smiles" by Miles Davis on Napster Footprints Miles Davis. Play on Napster. Song. Footprints Miles Davis. Davis and his young quintet (Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams) get frenetic and introspective with a constant helping of dignified freedom. This is exploratory, highbrow music that.

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4. This album is the second that Miles’ Second Great Quintet released, after the important, if relatively under-developed “E.S.P." This album took the ideas first presented on that album, and built upon them. I believe this classic, recorded over two October days, may be the Second Great Quintet.

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5. Oct 24,  · On this day (October 24) in , trumpeter Miles Davis began the recording session for Miles Smiles, his sophomore album with his now-famous Second Great Quintet, which featured saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Tony dadidesinlielapulmangmutirotbeds.coinfo album was famous for its captivating repertoire, with several of the tracks going on to .

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6. MILES SMILES marks a sea change in which the Miles Davis Quintet really begins to stretch out and confront the avant-garde with a modern thrust of their own--resulting in one of the greatest jazz recordings of all time/5(69).

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7. Wayne Shorter's composition "Footprints" appears on his earlier album Adam's Apple, but on Miles Smiles, the correlation between African-based 12/8 (or 6/8), and 4/4 is playfully dadidesinlielapulmangmutirotbeds.coinfor Tony Williams freely moves from swing, to the three-over-two cross rhythm—and to its 4/4 correlative. The rhythmic approach of Williams, and bassist Ron Carter, strongly suggests compound duple.

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8. Oct 06,  · The most satisfying sort of audacity was the rule with Miles Davis's second great quintet. One of six studio albums cut by the group between and , Miles Smiles finds them executing three Wayne Shorter compositions and one by the leader, along with Eddie Harris 's "Freedom Jazz Dance," former Davis cohort Jimmy Cobb 's "Gingerbread Boy /5().

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