SPECTACULAR !!! February 23

Released in 1969, In ​​A Silent Way is one of the triumphs of Miles Davis. If this is not the first album Miles in his electric period (Sorcerer, Kilimanjaro Girls were done one or two years ago), it is nevertheless one of the most famous and records sold, and valued. It is also the first album that Miles recorded with guitarist John McLaughlin (who also played on Bitches Brew, Live-Evil ...) and there are also Wayne Shorter (sax), Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock (piano electric), Joe Zawinul (organ), Tony Williams (drums) and Dave Holland (bass). Miles, of course, is the trumpet.

Composed of two suites of 19 minutes each, In A Silent Way ('In a Silent Way') deserves its name. Indeed, no large fusional jazz-rock sounds, no delusions close to the funk here, unlike the huge Bitches Brew and Live-Evil. Here the music, intense, jazz jazz-rock, is not forthcoming, between two periods more or less silent (say: relaxing, sober). In A Silent Way, the Kind Of Blue of the second great period of Miles, and, coincidentally, it was released 10 years after Kind Of Blue. If the first face consists of a single piece (Shhh / Peaceful) - finally, unique piece ... say that both sides fit together perfectly and I do not see where the second begins, Peaceful - the second, it is divided into three parts, all provided on a single audio track on the CD: the two parts of 4 minutes each In A Silent Way sandwichent 11 minutes of It's About That Time, highlight the disk. Miles in great shape, as his band, including Williams, Zawinul and McLaughlin.

If you want to discover and even Miles Davis jazz, In A Silent Way, sober album, elegant, captivating and very accessible, awaits you. Small listening council, put this album and lie down on your bed, cut lights, eyes closed. The music, then, from the first notes of vaporous organ Shhh / Peaceful, you penetrate, to insinuate in you, and you can then enter in full force. In A Silent Way, it is 38 minutes to Paradise. And shortly after that, in the same year (after Woodstock, which he did not participate), Miles Bitches Brew record, absolute monument that surpasses anything Miles had recorded earlier and what he will do in the future ... In short This is great, but the best is yet to come!